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censed or decreased according

to the number of prisoners. I have no ideo at

present with regard to the labor of the prisoners being made productive. Groepting that the grinding mill attached to the headmill be made of

use . I have cattum furnished

the Naval Department .

to me by

No

charge is made for that.

I know that before I was

appointed Jailor, oakum was picked for private individuals

and two dollars a picut paid for it.

I had a measure

for the Stone breathing,

but I could not

carry

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it out

because of the inequality in the hardness of the granite.

I know that opium,

Tobacco, and medicine, especially plasters for some, are introduced into the Jail ; but notwithstanding all my efforts I have not discovered in what way.

S

I communicate with the

Chinese through the interpretation

of the Chinese Turnkey . The Efinese Turnkey is within the Jail during

the

day,

but not

?