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Mr.
Mr
DRAFT.
MINUTE.
Mr. Fairfield.
Mr. Wingfield.
Mr. Bramston.
Mr. Meade.
Baron de Worms.
Lord Knutsford.
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for exercise and for working the
prisoners. The suggestions con-
tained in your despatch do not
however, as you will perceive,
meet what I consider to be the
requirements of the case, for they
would involve the further over-
crowding of a space already glar-
ingly overcrowded, and in this and
other respects they may be re-
garded as creating evils not now
At the same Eins
existing. I do not object, kom
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ever, to substituting a flat roof
for the present ridge over the Co
vict working shed in the yard at
the south east angle of the build
ing and surmounting this flat roof
by a second one supported on co- ?
lumns, so as to give two open sheds
for working instead of one.
4. Turning to more general
matters, I may observe that in my
opinion it must be regarded as a
necessary feature in any scheme of
compromise, that it should pro-
vide separato cells for the total
number of male prisoners belonging
to the criminal class calculat-
ed on a average of, say, the last
four years.
The average total of