550
enclose.
5.
One remedy, for any
there
may
be
overcrowding of the Gaol, suggested in the memorial, is to favour the free emigration of ex-convicts to newly explored or thinly populated countries. I need
that such a
hardly say proposal is quite impracticable.
Nor
Can
I endorse the~
recommendation to interfere with the discretion of the Magistrates in regard to
their
their
passing
such sentences
as are in accord with the
law.
The third suggestion
that juvenile offenders should
be sent to the Roman Catholie
Reformatory would, if adopted, and it is, I.
under
may
mention,
my
consideration,
afford very little relief seeing
that the number of juvenile offenders confined in the Gaol, is very small. It is at present only 10 and was last month only 11.
6.