despatch No. 78 of this day's date that I approve of the regulation, which you have added in draft giving the Superintendant power to inflict corporal punishment in certain cases on his own responsibility
13. Rule 266: I gather from the Blue Book that there is no treadwheel at the Victoria Goal. As the treadwheel is considered in this Country to be the best form of penal labour, it would be well to introduce it into the Colony when the finances can bear the necessary cost connected with it. Next to the treadwheel the crank is held to be...
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Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Bramston.
Mr. Meade.
Sir R. Herbert.
Lord Dunraven.
Mr. Stanhope.
14. In rules 269, 270, 271 "sixteen" would be the most satisfactory weight and moment for penal labour.
68 With regard to stone-carrying I shall be glad to be informed whether 45 lbs is considered not by the Colonial Surgeon, to be too great a weight for prisoners to carry without injury to their health.
Ts Rule 270; the inference from this implies that prisoners sentenced for more than three months, shall be kept to penal labour for the first three months but it would be well that this be explicitly stated. Those sentenced to penal Servitude, shall be kept to penal labour for six Months
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