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No. 5.
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LIST OF CONVICTS AT BERMUDA selected for Conditional Pardon, on the principle of rewarding Industry when combined with Good Conduct, but who cannot be selected by any fixed measure of labour performed, either by reason of the want of bodily strength, or from the nature of the Convict's employment whilst at Bermuda.
Bermuda,
In what way
Convist's Name and Number.
Date of Conviction.
Date of Arrival at
the Convict has
been employed whilst at
Bermuda
Bermuda
Conduct
Conduct in Prison, on the Public Works inserted by
inserted by
the Overseer.
1846.
Explanation
in proof that no undua favour is shown in this recommendation,
(Extract.)
Governor Reid to Mr. Gladstone.
Bermuda, July 9, 1846. ON receiving your despatch, military No. 3, dated 15th May 1846, I requested the Commanding Royal Engineer, Lieutenant-Colonel Barry, to give me a written statement of the number of convicts he could employ in forwarding the works of defence at Bermuda, during the next two years, in addition to the present number. As the execution of the works of defence at the dockyard and the naval works are connected, I also requested the engineer in charge of naval works, as well as the naval store-keeper, each to give me a statement of their opinions, how many additional convicts could be employed in their respective branches of the public service. The following is an abstract made from their statements:-
By the Ordnan ́ ́.
For filling up the mouth of Castle Harbour For commencing the barrack for the central reserve of
troops on Prospect Hill
Convicts.
150
150
For Naval Works under the Admiralty Engineer.
At the new Admiralty House
40
Deepening the water round the sea front of the fortifi-
cations at the dockyard
50
Quarrying stone on Admiralty Islands
100
Additional mechanics
60
Add for contingent services, as estimated ly the naval
store-keeper
150
Total
700
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Reference :-
Signature of Commanding Royal Engineer or Officer of the Naval Department.
Signature of the Overseer
and Chaplain.
Approved and recommended to the Secretary of State for the Colonies for the Queen's Conditional Pardon.
Governor-Commander-in-Chief.
The hulks already here are quite full. It would require a line-of- battle hulks to lodge 700 convicts.
One line-of-battle hulk might therefore be sent out with 700 convicts, to take the place of one of the frigate hulks now at the dockyard; which frigate hulk might then be removed to the spot indicated by the Com- manding Royal Engineer, Lieutenant-Colonel Barry, on the north side of the main island, near Prospect Hill, and opposite to the Navy Wells, at the point marked in the small chart attached, or in Hamilton Harbour. This frigate bulk would contain more men than the Commanding Royal Engineer wishes to set at work at first at Prospect Hill; but the remainder could be employed by the Naval Department if authorized, until wanted by the Ordnance, in enlarging the Navy Wells, or at the Admiral's new house. Flat boats would be required for landing the men, and authority for con- structing sheds, to enable the convicts to cook their dinners on shore, and for shelter. These sheds would have to be constructed by the Royal Engineers.
I myself consider these calculations of the number of additional con- victs which could be advantageously employed here on the public works, as under estimated. If the means of lodging more convicts, and of pro- perly directing their labour be provided, in my opinion the number may be, if desired, considerably increased beyond the 700 additional men now estimated. Neither of the frigate hulks could be spared for the naval service unless two line-of-battle hulks, instead of one as proposed in the naval store-keeper's letter, dated 22nd June 1846, should be sent out. If either of the convict hulks now here were to be eventually taken as a
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