ratued at £18.9.2
Thus the total number of
imployed during the year out of t Gad amounts to 15,253
ว
giving
the
to
equivalent value of work a mounting £317. 15. 3: for the Year 1849 the number employed was 17. 846, for 1848,
18.157.
The forsoners who are condemned whard labour within the walls of the frison hair, as stated before, broken 300 tons of stone for the roads, it is cartainly hard and I now cause it to be broken very fine, and estimating then labour at 50 per diem would
an amount of £64. 11.3 or about #chillings for ton, which is a
grui
mi
a sch
may
high
employment
price indeed; this work is an and the stone is useful but certainly as punishment; the tread-mill when it arrives will effect I have no doubt all
no
that
may
were
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be desired for that purpose = In addition to this service a party of 10 sailors socre comployed for 3 months in clearing and levelling the ground round the Debtors' Gaok, the value of their labour Lestimate at 6 pence per day and amounts to £21.5: chus the total value of all Convict labour that
I can bring to account amounts to the sume of £403.12.1-
On
J.
comparing the actual expen- -diture on account of the Gaol with the value of work performed by the Convicts
are Co
I must observe that at least two thirds of the total number of persons confined in the Gaol do not earn anything at all, and are
consequently burden upon the Government. Roadround the Island. I is Excellency having visited this Road at the beginning of last
a
year
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