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form really part of
one Scheme, it will be
convenient to report upon them in one-
Despatch
The rapid increase in the population
of the balony
and the consequent increase
in the number of prisoners in Gaol render the plane for the Extension of the Gaol in Nictoria, sanctioned in Your Grace's Despatch No 15 of the 17th August 1859, suitable to the requirements of the Colony;
the
no
longer
was under Consideration.
number in Gaol at present Average
Gave being 520 as compared with 262 in 1958,
when the extension plan
One half of the plan as sanctioned has now been carried out by the erection of a Bridewell Capable of containing about 300 Short sentence prisoners and debtors,
but the other half which was to stand on
the site
el
of
the present
present old
which Gool and
was estimated to Cost $40,000 and to
accommodate about 200 Convicts has not
yet
been commenced.
that if completed as
It is
now evident
originally intended,
the Gad would be barely sufficient under
of
the Colony,
the present circumstances
and would be incapable of further Extension which is certain to be required.
The recent increase in the Police
Force has rendered it necessary
to provide
additional Barrack accommodation, and
it was
originally proposed to meet this by the enlargement of Existing Stations, and the erection of new ones in different parts
the Town, at a
probable Cost
of
of
about
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