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83.

82:

recommendations appear to be of sufficient importance to attach

them to the Keport, subject to the approval of the other Members of the Commission. 1. Classification of Prisoners.

With

ropean

Turnkeys superintending so many Chinese prisoners whose language they do not understand, And phase complaints they Connot consequently take cognizance of, it appeare necessary that in the classification, each prisoner should be

numbered or clothed according

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to the class of punishment to which he is sentenced.

The rooms and cells

poor

should also bear numbers :-

a

difference in the color of the numbers for each close would be a sufficient distinction. At present a prise

visoner Lentured

to one kind of punishment might readily be mixed up with those not portaining to his class. A classification oven of

the conduct of Prisoners

in the Gaol might lead to

good results, and the number of good.

good or bad conduct