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would be the best mode of of complying with His Excellency's directions.

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We decided that it was a n

preliminary to establish

a

Acessary

buses with

regard to the class of offenders to be retained at the Victoria Jail, and

the

save

with regard to the Convict

it could

Establishment; because thereafter it

be more intesfactorily would be the needful strength of

satisfactorily ascertained what

the Tail Staff and Felice guard at each place.

3

جی

It appeared to

as

that a defiired

and proper division

of

the class of

offenders at each Prison could be at

once established and thereafter strictly maintained, viz :- by sending to Stone - Cutters Island the whole of the Male Chinese prisoners under sentence of transportation or perval servitude with the exception of those whose sentences expire during

the

1863.

year.

The Jail Records exhibit the

following data:

Total number of Prisoners in Jail 628

Number of thale Chinese Convicts

of transportation

under sentence of

ar

move

puval servitude having than 12 months to serve, being

the number as hercin

proposed to send to Stove

butters Island-

264.