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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