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inconvenience to this Government.

The Proclamation however

was

strictly carried out as for

as the absence

of a Customs' Deportment permitted, and

Essentials

of a

Polive Force.

While

on

lerimo

17.

this subject I may

remark that the Returns shew an

increase of Crime.

numerous

confiscations

were made.

Health

18.

16.

I regret to say that notwithstanding

Polien

the intelligence

and geal of the Captain Superintendent of Police and his Assistant

I cannot make a favorable report of the

fonce

under them. There

are doubtless

great difficulties in their way, owing

to the lawless

and strange people with

whom they have to deal, but the men

of the cops themselves, whether European

or Indian are

wanting in most of the

The Colonial Surgeon's anmel

Report is satisfactory

and the Sanatory

Commission to which he alludes sat i

throughout the

year, sending in their Report in the month of December - This Report has been placed before the Home Government and, as occasion arises, will be given to several of

the

effect

suggestions

of

the Comm

commision-

some of these have

already been-adopted as Dr. Murray observes,

with

good result.