the Governor.
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Governor. No.
Reming 334
Date.
1890
*16 Sept
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Hong Kong
No. 20 52 B
(Subject.)
Gaol Extension
J.
0523
DESPATCH.
REG 2 OCT 90,
680
Submits report of Surveyor General with plans
(Minutes.)
M. Wingfield
Before dealing with the suggestions as to the prison building, it may be pointed out that the number of prisoners to be provided for might be considerably diminished if mendicants were more frequently shipped to China. This forms the subject of separate papers now in circulation. 2. If the abolition of imprisonment for debt was insisted upon. See pages 11-13 of this despatch.
The number of debtors sent to prison in 1889 was 81. 3. If the new separate cells to be built have the effect, which may reasonably be expected,