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sensible of the great value of a sound
-system of prison discipline, I hope to
carry the foregoing principles into effect;
be able to
ay be
and then, perhaps I may report to Your Lordship that some check
to the constant recommittal
"has been given
of old offenders and to the increase
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crime.
I will only presume
of
to
add that I feel I am myself, to a great extent, the cause of what happened, for
whilst it is clear that His Lordship would not have written the
passages
I have
referred to in His Lordship's despatch of the 35th of January, 1878, had he remembered that I had given him notice that I was actually proceeding with the help of my
Council, it
seems
equally clear that the receipt,
of such a large
within six or seven
or seven months, of
number of despatches bearing on the penal
system of the Colony, might, very naturally, lead to an important passage
in one
despatch being entirely overlooked.
I have the honour to be,
My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble Servant,