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Council

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on

the various alternative plans

I —

for a Gaol on the separate system,

entirely concurred with the Secretary of

State in the opinion that

on a new

a new

prison

site would be the best solution

of the question : and I further expressed

the

opinion that the site selected

by

Governor Sir Hercules Robinson on Stone

Cutters Island and approved by the

Duke of Newcastle

was the most

suitable

one.

In the same

despatch I

reported that I had instructed the

Surveyor General to prepare plans and

estimates for providing a Gaol with

700 separate cells on

12.

The

Stone Cutters' Island.

reason

given by the Surveyor General for not

carrying out

those instructions until July, 1880, namely that the Survey Department was fully-

occupied with the Praya repairs submitted to Your Lordship in my

despatch No.129 of 2nd September, 1880,

Gov.

10004

Enclosure No.1

8 drawings.

when I

~

expressed the hope of being able,

before long, to submit

plans

and estimates

for a Gaol

on some alternative sites

selected by Mr. Price

3.

I have

now the honour to

lay before Your Lordship the plans

prepared by Mr. Price for the Stone Cutters' Island Prison, and some

other plans viz., plan of actual Gaol, Jail and Rice Premises, Gaol at Belcher's Bay, Gaol at Bowrington, Gaol at

During Tom Gardens report.

Enclosure No.3. For. Order No.2756.

4.

on

rough plans of

on the alternative sites selected

by

the

Island

of không nóng

with his

Each of the three sites

suggested by Mr. Price on the Island of

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