CO129-065 - Sir Bowring & Public Offices - 1857 [11-12] — Page 82

"There are many facilities for rape re either't he worth of the labor would be far excuded by the cost of the guard.

or

with a smaller, quard one

wardsones

or more convicts would

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· caps

every day. I may incidentally mention that when I f

I first

books Office I found one guard to every two convicts we have

one to six but the

labors of the chain gand are confined

to the Town

To the Chinese kane ports : I would also hold out the

same inducement:

inducer

runt of allowed

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home . _ subject of course to- the provisio as to good conduct and also to this further _condition that the times of any prisoner escaping from the gang of which he formed, part shall be deducted from the allowed time" of the other

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members of the gang, if

on

the investigation always heldon

on to cakes it appear that susticscapes might have been prevented by the remaindent: of the prisoners . From what I know of the Chinese character I think that this mutual