bays, (Ragged School), which might also, when cargo.

upon, receive for reformatory purposes; juvenile offenders under sentence for criminal offences. The Lease contains no definition of the term "Reformatory" and the Bishop Government, in the grant of land, or in assisting him annual grants of money, ever defined the term Reformatory found fault with his interpretation of it (as a Ragged school or trial School for destitutes!

14. the Land or of Judas. Ever since he occupied granted to him, Bishop Raimondi conducted on premises erected at his own cost an industrial school in which members of destitute Chinese and Portuguese boys have been educated, and occasionally juvenile offenders and vagrants were received from the Magistracy, the Registrar General or the Colonial Secretary, from 1865 down to 1885, and these were in most cases successfully reformed. done this, and never, on occasion, refused to receive a juvenile offender, Bishop Raimondi claimed that he has hitherto fulfilled all obligation involved in the original grant.

6. In August 1885, Bishop Raimondi presented a printed report (copies annexed) of his Reformatory and in 1886 stated his willingness to place the institution under the Reformatory Schools Ordinance (19 of 1877). May 1886, a Reformatory School, but added (a) that juvenile offenders, to be sent to him, should not exceed 14 years in age.

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