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Curit Establishment in this Colony ;- Especially seeing that successive Secretaries of State have repeatedly pointed out the urgent necessity of the erection of a new Prison on the Kodem plan, and have directed the introduction
of separate cells, and generally, of the reformatory discipline now carried out in the model prisons of England.
3. The Judges of the Supreme Court, (Chief Justice Sir George Philippo and Mr Justice Russell,) and the Attorney General (Mr O'Malley), expressed such strong opinions to me on this subject that I invited them to state their views in writing for transmission to your Lordship. I now annex copies of the papers which they have sent me for that purpose, which deserve careful attention. The Attorney General has stated in another letter as follows: "I send herewith the memorandum about the Head of the Gaol. I would hesitate to put a personal
"point upon it, and add, what is my most deliberate conviction, namely, that the appointment of a man of Mr Hayward's stature would promise very ill for the future management of the gaol."
4. It will be seen that the Judges