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from the Mainland. I shall presently advert mine fully to the organization of the Police.
12. Thirdly, the reforms which I have been enabled to effect in the supervision of Gaol labor, and the fact, well known to the criminal classes, that those who are condemned to imprisonment no longer expect lodging with light labor, but must perform tasks, which, though regulated with every due regard to sanitary precautions, are sufficiently laborious, has unquestionably deterred numbers from coming here, as of old, to what was a tempting field for plunder.
13. Fourthly, the most effective means of preventing hardened criminals from returning here is one on which I have had the benefit of many communications from Her Majesty's Government, and which has been specially devised to meet the exceptional exigencies of this Colony, namely, that of allowing certain prisoners, who petition before their sentence expires for the indulgence, to be released conditionally, that they submit to be marked so as to be easily recognized by the Police, and that if they return to the Colony and are recognized, they are to be at once punished for returning, according to their agreement, and compelled to undergo the remainder...