CO129-063 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [4-7] — Page 514

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all occupied and no suitable building presented itse to be rented byter Majesty's Government, buildings of of wood or mat which under

ordinary circumst might have been speedily erected within the Gaot compound and answered

circumstances

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temporary purpose, were at once rejet débecause their inflamable structures proced invite incendiarium. No

would

"Military buildings evere)

available and the Police

Stations were insufficient to

accomodate the increased Police Force taken on at

olice, it

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this junchere, so much so that a part of the Webtors Gaol was appropriated for the quarters of Police. thew happened that the disposal of fiftytwo

two prisoners was a subject of difficulty.

and perious consideration,

to place them within the gaol was visibly impracticable,

and it resulted in those

committed for trial being sent to Gaol, and the remainder, forty two, in

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