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in default of finding security with the object of liberating-
the least aggravated
Cases.
As regards the first
recommendation an Ordinance W:19
of 1886 has been recently passed under which Juvenile offenders can be lawfully detained at the West Point Reformatory, and I am in communication with Bishop Raimondi on the subject; but, at the present moment, there is only ne juvenile offender under the age of 16 in the
prison.
I have
released
released three men who were in
Gaol for simple gambling. The remaining gamblers,
are
now
only 18, Keepers or agents of Gambling
house Keepers and I did not
think it right to liberate them.
men detained for want of
of the
secusity all have been released bu
As
there
three, and
appears
to be
some doubt whether the Magistrates I do not commit some persons
improperly, I have asked the Acting Attorney General to look into the question.