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it should not be further burdened with such an expense for military Prisoners, who are. far the most troublesome in -Gaol and require careful
watching by European Turnkeys, and are accountable for one -fifth of the expenditure of the whole Gaol although they only form about one ninth of the prisoners there.
Section 32 of the Mutiny Act provides that each prisoner shall be dieted and supplied; with fuel and other necessaries but it does not say that they
shall be clothed or receive medical
attendance. In cases where
prisoners are to be discharged at the end of their sentence, 2. find, that one.
shilling
a.
day is allowed for them by the act, but 2 do not find that it has ever been charged for; this is to provide them with a suit of undress clothes when they leave Gaol : In
order to prevent loss the leolony should have 1°/9° per day
A We get 24 cents a day already for Naval prisoners.
each man.
If the 6d a
day is paid according to the rate of exchange, the leolony will get less than 19.
Cents whenever the dollar is.
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