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violent assaults on
prisoners by
the
Superintendent. As, however, the pay
and allowances of each just
per annum
£100 per advised that they
exceed
the Attorney-General
were entitled to a in trial before the Executive Council in the terms of the Colonial Regulations, chapter IV, Section 2; and that they to dismissed only by the Secretary of
State.
2
can
The formalities prescribed
by the Regulations have been fully
carried out; and the Executive Council
unanimously advised that the charges
were
proved; and that Ryan and O'Donnell should be suspended, with
a view to their dismissal, if Your Lordship should so decide. Similar offences have heretofore been punished with dismissal; and the maintenance
of discipline in the Gaol requires that punishment in these cases. It is manifest that European Turnkeys must be taught that
violent assaults on Chinese or other
prisoners constitute a
grave
Offence
3.
I transmit the
papers