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Colony from being swamped by the work dak of offenders from the Criminal population of the neighboring provinces.

5. Make on the rows and

elsewhere in carried on by the

sufficiently

Convicts is now severe for most furfores, bit mmary still forfling make

their bodies and leys for the furfore of being kept in the Gail where they merely fick

joses on

oakum or are

engaged in light

work, and it is very difficult to prevent their doing so, erfecially, as when they work out of doom they have the excuse of their

fetters creating the sores.-

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To meet this difficulty, I

certainly am and have been for sometime of opinion that there should be in the have itself, means of employing such matingerer

in some most inkrone and

disagreeable work of a brictly feral character. Juside the Gare there would be no necessity for their wearing fetters of any discription, and the moment a prisoner chewed the least symptom of ulcers created either by accident of

design he should at once find himself transferred from out door work to labor