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culminating in a total of 727, began to decrease, and has since steadicy diminished, until the present time, when there are only 543 prisoners Several reasons have been assigned, in explanation of
chic decrease.
4. When I shall have been
longer in this blony and shall be better able to arrive at definite conclusions on to difficult and complicated a quctions, I hope to address
ece Your Lordship
at
it come ringth, on the subject of the penal legislation of stong For the present, however,
Nong.
Janey
decire to state that there
seems.
seems to be no ground for
a
apprehending a return to the large number of criminals
committed to
gas during the
past two
years;
and that, as the actical number (543) (even
if
it should not further decredi to the opinion
may, according
of the most competent judges, be confined in the existing gad without
any jeopardy to health or discipaine, ik appears expedient to postpone the new building.
building for a time,
urgent
as a work of lese
importance than the sanitary
projects
which are al
already before
Your