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the plans recently sent home from the Colony. Instead of seven hundred and sixty cells, four hundred and thirty would be enough, and instead of ascending to so high a figure #330000, the cost would not exceed $250005.
follows:
Cost of adapting Victoria gaol to the separate system for hard labour prisoners.
270 cells $30000
Cost of Penitentiary for Convicts 430 cells $190000 $30000
Stone Culler's Island for penal servitude
Cost of reerecting Elsewhere the Colonial powder magazine, at present occupying site required by the Penitentiary new Per
Total cost of scheme #$250,000
8. As regards the question of protection from outside attack, I have alluded to the necessity for a small garrison in addition to the ordinary gaol guard. This will entail an increased expenditure more in connection with the yearly maintenance of such a force than with the creation of the building, for it will not materially increase the prime cost.
Extra barrack room for additional twenty guards. It was at one time thought the Military authorities intended keeping soldiers permanently on Stonecutters Island to guard the two new batteries they have recently erected there, and that this would form sufficient protection, but I believe this idea has been abandoned, and the protection of a gaol on Stonecutters Island will therefore devolve entirely on the Colonial Authorities.
9. To sum up, I would respectfully recommend that if the Secretary of State decides on a new gaol it be placed on Stonecutter's