CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 310

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below.

There

are no

effective

means of ventilation, or for shutting out external noises

which are very

e very disturbing, and which proceed from the crowds

that Collect under the Vestibule

of the Building, the only place op

resort, but which however does

not even

afford protection from

either the sun or rain!

There is sometimes no

Space for the prisoners in the bouts and since I have been Chief Magishate, I have

on Several occasions had more

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than 20 prisoners in the same

Case- once as many as 75 And at another hine 95.

It is an

impossible for want of the. necessary Accommodation to exclude uitnesses from the Cout And Sepo ake them from each

other - one

of the most

efficient

modes of periving at huth :- and constant interruption is the hecessary

occasioned by passing and repassing through the lover Court of blacks and others going up to the Assistant Magistrates Court.

Cases are frequently

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