to the Superintendent.
The dies of the greater number of the Prisoners having been reported as excessive, the Government will naturally refuse to sanction waste and insist on its reduction - it becomes therefore necessary to consider what course should be pursued, if Government order the change to be carried out without giving me the powers I ask for. I am prepared to carry out the orders of Government under any conditions, but if rioting and violence should arise under such circumstances, I would consider it necessary at once to use fire-arms in its suppression.
Lof A. Gordon
Superintendent.
Enclosure 3
C.O.
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Inco 559
9 AUG
In lieu of the Superintendent's draft I beg to submit herewith the following:
If any convict prisoner is guilty of any of the following offences, viz. Mutiny, open incitement to mutiny in the prison, personal violence to any officer of the prison, aggravated or repeated assault on a fellow prisoner; repetition of threatening language to any officer or prisoner, and any act of insubordination deemed by extraordinary circumstances to require extraordinary measures to be suppressed by extra force, the Superintendent shall have the power to sentence the said prisoner to corporal punishment not to exceed twelve strokes of the rattan.
It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to report to the Governor every case of his exercising the power conferred on him.
Edw. J. Ackroyd
Acting Attorney General
June 30th 1886.