of the recent disorder to preserve the peace they could easily have prevailed upon the covices

piace. There are the

to keep

menda.

now that recur

to me. I have

had not.

not time to claborate.

them and I submit them merely

to serve perhaps

as a basis upon

which some alterations in the

existing law

may

be made

which will render the Colony

more secure from the repetition

of such

as were witnessed last week.

Had the 12,000 who were

kept pent up in their houses

for the 4

days of the disturbances

broken out and come into conflict

made against law abiding citizens

lives.

I have re

quired) I. it. May,

Capt. Supt. of Police

Hon: G. J. M. O'Brien, C.M.G.

Colonial Secretary

in order

Correct

only

have been restrained at the cost of

many

lived

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