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Number of Male Chinese Convects under sentence of transpwvitation

or

a perval servitude whose sentences.

exfire during 1863 —

All other prisoners including

56

European Plous and all classes (308.

excrpting the abou mentioned

The live latter portions being a total of 364 to remain at Victoria Jail, and

this

cumber is presumed to be about the number that the nearly on : complited Pail at Victoria has proper

accar

4.

-edation for

a

We arrived at conclusion that-

cirasmuch as

the class of prisoners confiend in Victoria Jail, would

have but a comparatively short tour

sentence unexpired,

or that they

of

wvere

under sentence of original short tenors of imprisonment, that there would not be much temptations to break prison, and therefore that the whole of the prisoners having hard labor attached to their sentence could properly be

considered as

by which

roads, by

applicable for labor

our the

arrangement the Victoria Jail would be daily cleared of

the

5

tvald

of prisoners and its internal

anagement simplified-

We considered that the distinct charada

of the tus Prisons should hereafter be inviolably maintained, and that ....