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11. I sincerely trust that the new Legislature which will now be called together under the recent amendment of the Constitution will address itself to the careful consideration of a question so closely affecting the good government of the Colony, and will adopt measures for placing the prison system on a footing which will be creditable to the community. Unfortunately the time is one when unusual calls are made upon the revenues of the Colony, and painfully unsatisfactory as the present state of things must be pronouneed, many of these calls are so urgent that they cannot be refused precedence over prison expenditure.
12. Unluckily, moreover, the crimes, or, at all events, the number of offences brought to justice in the Colony are rapidly increasing, the number of apprehensions and summonses having risen from 3,370 in 1872 to 6,754 in 1874.
13. I hope, however, that you may, with the resources at your command, be able to do much in the direction of reform. The attention which you gave to this class of questions in your former government. lead me to suppose that you will with the less difficulty be able to deal promptly and effectually with those now before you. Captain Hime, R.E., the newly-appointed Colonial Engineer, on whom much of the labour will rest, has been in communication with my Department upon the important ques- tion of enlarging and improving the prison accommodation of the Colony in a manner which will be within your available resources,
I have, &c.
(Signed)
CARNARVON,
No. 4.
CEYLON.
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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