eMagistrates to the Reformatory
the institution as a
was
twenty
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-reformatory, it scours
desirable that the Government should
for whose maintenance their Worships paid
from
the Poor Box Fund at the rate
One Qollar per month each.
3.
derive some
of
benefit from this outlay
$1.
6.
After 1869, the cllagistrates
did not often send boys to the Reformatory,
of the
owing, apparently, to the low state Poor 13ox Fund; but it appears that ---
Done
boys
were sout
there as re
14.
• recently as 1879. The course adopted by
the
Magistrates was to send the boys to the
Qirector of the Establishment along with a private note.
5.
that the
His Excellemy is quite Magistrates have
110
·legal power
of committing boys to the Reformatory; but,
of the grant of Fifty dottorse $50.
in view.
month
dollars a
th made by the Government to
the
Under the circumstances, –
therefore, "His Exxcelleury treets that you
may be able to revert to the practi
of
ce
your predecessors in sending Iwonile Offenders to an institution whe
re
the
training they will receive connot fail to be of the utmost advantage? themselves and to the comm
to
community.
(Signed) Frederick Stewart
Aloting Colonial Secretary