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bing made to them in the

Report. From the 6th I

shongly dissent on grounds.

many

I do not find in the Report any reference to the

· clothing of prisoners exs.pt in page 69. I think every prisoner for offences, in in confinement for a month,

prison

should wear a dress. I think that it is

not only important" "(in the words of the Report, paze 70.] that copies of the Regulations in Chinese

n

should be hung up in

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many parts of the Gaol, but that it is of very gread importance; and suggestion 3 of Mess Gletcher and Searth might be carried out with great advantage. An additional Chinese

fail

Interpreters in the Just is

desirable. The ignoranci

very

I believe that

of prisoners as to their sentence: is surprising the last prisoner who was hanged, actually did not

know that his tical was over, until the days after he was