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shall be in the long boat with the Convicts to regulate them when getting the morning board. I recollect that the boat was upset. I was informed in reply to my question that fifty-five Convicts were about going ashore. I then directed that more Convicts should go into the boat, and I believe the number increased to eighty. This was intended to avoid bringing on board eighty wrists at a time, because the Convicts were in a hurry to go from the ship, they only exhibited a desire to get speedily from the vessel.
It was my intention that there should be a longer time to ventilate the ship, and also to get the Convicts to their labor on shore.
Henry Manning, late Warden of the Convict Hulk, had been eleven months in Government employ at the Jail and had been about three weeks Warden at the Hulk there. There was no order as to what number of Convicts should be conveyed to the shore; sometimes we