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to transportation for life.

The Judicial and Police Departments Police continue to be the heaviest civil charges of the Colony. It is to be hoped that a

smaller.

huglish Police free may by degrees be required, and I would

recommend that any future Superintendent. Inspectors of Police be selected from persons

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the spot,

as these are with

acquainted as these

the Chinese population, rather than that Members of the metropolitan force should

be sent out from England to a community

whose habits and

language

are

entirely

strange

to them, and in respect to whom they are therefore placed at a comparative disadvantage..

I have had the satisfaction to state that the completion of the felonial Gaols not only relieves the Government prom the payment of a heavy rent, but is ales likely to be attended with diminished

expense in the custody and guarding of prisoners. For the sake.

For the sake of greater security, and with a view to the general welfare- of the inmates, I have made it incumbent on one of the Magistrates.

to visit the

prisons weekly, and

send me a written report on their

condition_.-

I have the honor to be, With the highest respect.

Your Lordship's,

で

Most. Obedient.

Humble Servant,

Danis

Ndani