CO129-116 - Sir MacDonnell - 1866 [11-12] — Page 110

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Small Island which contains an enormous

amount of wealth - and inducements

for plunder

surrounded

by

a dense,

Multitude of at least 60 Chinese

fluctuating population in a

proportion to one

European, and all placed within

reasonable expectation of

booty, and to debar others from

making a profit except by Industrial pursuits.

seemed to me the most imperative duty of the Executive here. All discussions of penal

discipline, and the comparative merits

of Cranks treadmills etc.

however interesting as affecting the

Colony on the shore of

a vast Empire

between which and this Colony there

cannot be a less interchange of population

by arrivals and departures than 1500

per day.

9.

The primary object therefore of

Regulations of an English Gaol in a well

ordered County at home seem wholly

out of place here - where every thing relating

to crime is of an exceptional character

to other possession

of the British Crown.

16.

The Criminal population does

not consist of our own County men with all the claims, which the latter have

on criminal jurisprudence

as I thought, be obviously self preservation and protection. To root Criminals out

from midah and cast them back

on their own shores there to look for sustenance

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6 7 108 Small Island which contains an enormous amount of wealth - and inducements for plunder surrounded by a dense, Multitude of at least 60 Chinese fluctuating population in a proportion to one European, and all placed within reasonable expectation of booty, and to debar others from making a profit except by Industrial pursuits. seemed to me the most imperative duty of the Executive here. All discussions of penal discipline, and the comparative merits of Cranks treadmills etc. however interesting as affecting the Colony on the shore of a vast Empire between which and this Colony there cannot be a less interchange of population by arrivals and departures than 1500 per day. 9. The primary object therefore of Regulations of an English Gaol in a well ordered County at home seem wholly out of place here - where every thing relating to crime is of an exceptional character to other possession of the British Crown. 16. The Criminal population does not consist of our own County men with all the claims, which the latter have on criminal jurisprudence as I thought, be obviously self preservation and protection. To root Criminals out from midah and cast them back on their own shores there to look for sustenance
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6

7

108

Small Island which contains an enormous

amount of wealth - and inducements

for plunders

u-surrounded

by

a dense,

Mnr

of at least bo chines

Chinese fluctuating population in a

the propertion

Europian.

to one

and all placed within.

and booty, and to delev others from following reasonable expectation of

them here with

any

making a profit exccept by Industrial pursints. seemed to me the most impurative duty of the Excentive here. All discussions of penal

discipline, and the comparative merits

shot drile

Cranks treadmills te

fero

Miles

of

the shore of

of

a vast Empire

qu

of

I

however interesting as affecting the -

between which and this Colony there

cannot be a less interchange of population

by anivals and departures than 1500

per day.

The

9.

primary object therefore of

here

Regulations of an English Gaol in a well home- seem wholly

ordered County at home. seem

out

of pince here - where every thing relating

to crime is of an exceifitionat character to other bossession

a.

we unknow in

degree

of the British Crown.

any

The Criminal population dow

16.

their

not consist of

on't own County men with all the claims, which the latter have

en on

om criminal jurisprudence

should

as I thought, be obviously self preservation and protection. To root Criminals out

f

om midah and cast them back.

own shores there to look for sustenance

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