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"until the new machinery moves " smoothly in the new lines. In the "present case, the changes "generally)" approved of; but it seems
were not
"to me that the inconveniences were
"short in duration and small in
"fact.
It is unnecessary
unnecessary to restate the
"facts, which appear selfficiently clear Eupon the Reports and Tabular
*Statements, and I will confine myself
"to the statement
of
the conclusions
"I have come to upon thell figures "and reports and upon my own "observations as bhief Justice.
fot" He is Excellency Governor
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"Hennessy has restored the rule "according to which Sir Hercules "Robinson dealt with convicts.
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"In 1866, the Executive, in order
"to avoid the expenses of
a second
"gaol, gave conditional pardons, without reference to myself as Chief Justice, to "hundreds of prisoners after having
served
very
short portions of their "sentences, the condition being that they "should leave the bolony, and this "practice was followed subsequently.
"Sost
of
these men returned to
"the Colony and to that I "attribute the formation of