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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

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