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willingly acceded to such petitions and ¦ caused the parties to be marked with

small broad arrow on the lobe of the left

lav.

These minor criminals then-

receive a conditional

pardon,

the condition.

being not to return, on pain of completing

their sentence here - if recognized

if recognizestowhich

in all probability they would immediately.

be,

23.

I think this System, if- Steadily prosed, will leave with the | Nice Roy the futine Inferintendence

and charge of a large proportion of

criminals whom it has hitherto been-

impossible to Keeps long out of Gavl here,

and who generally form

one thir

the whole number in confinement.

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233 Mory6h

It may

however be found necessary -

hereafter to take the additional precantion

of rendering such criminals in returning liable to the immediate infliction of Corporal

the order of any magistrate,,

punishment

m

ifsired merely on

identification of the

returned Criminal

24.

I

would

further draw attentino

to the remarkable fact that whilst I find from

from retiems nor number of the Military

before

me that the

on the sick list

from yo on the 14 of

has recently risen from 70

last September, to 166 this

day

or ann Maran

increase of $37 free cent, the enclosed daily

report of the state of the Gaol this morning

shers that of 70 Emopeans not one

"in Hospiclat, and

Wax

of by Chinese and