CO129-045 - Sir Bonham - 1854 [1-4] — Page 241

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ordinary general

it, viz. in

picking

services, we can derive from breathing stones for the Roads,

Datum, mat

mathing, teas within

the Gaol walls, and Labour on Public Works

ontoide the Walls. _ Within the Walls some

effective worth has been performed by the Carpenters in the

repair of Tools.

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well as in

the ordinary repairs of the Geat ; timber and other materials being supplied lean condemned Buildings.

I was this enabled to turn their

Labour to account, particularly in

a new set of beds or

in the

ax

beds or stretchers for the renewal of several windows,

Sternal

formation of

the chaingang.

refloorings

and

way/;

variety of other

a passage and covered

one toom; a passage

of other useful repairs,

which must otherwise have been paid for.

By the regulations lately made for the Good,

to Keepe

an ex

act account

the Garder is requisites collemsons works c of these and other miscellaneous works

the Convicts, so that a more

"performed by

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direct

comparison may

be made of the value.

of the work as a set off against the expenditure

for their maintenance.

The stone brotten for the Roads amounts to

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d

400 Tons, which I estimate at perdon: 3/6, equals B. 70... The greater quantity of

use in metalling th "This I propose to

the new

Road to Government house, which being

to forrned entirely in filling will require to have its surface

rendered as

hard and as

unyielding as possible to preserve it from the action of the heavy

rains. The value

e of work

performed by the Carpenters and Hantsmiths,

latter for

short period only!

the latter for a short

a

exclusive

of materials, I estimate at £38.... "Without the Gao

Gaol walls

10 mew are

A

average number

of men re employed daily, as watercarriers,

scavengers fear, and in a

variety of other purposes for the general duties of the Gaol. _ - Public Works they have been comployed

Upon

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