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ctate of this badly constructed and constantly overcrowded prison, and

· especially after a part of it had been improvised for a temporary hospital, I certainly

to have

an

was not

sorry opportunity of letting

out thirty six will conducted

prisoners. But even "the number es exceptionally liberated, the total number of prisoners whom I have thought fit to pardon since apumption of this Government, is much less than the number pardoned in the came time by my predicepor.

But even including

my

85.

13.

On this, the expenteal and

really important point, I have the honor to lay before you a

return

prepared by the lecting Superintendent of the Garl shewing

the number

of prisoners discharge- from the trustions Gaol by parton, "warrant or authority of the Governor before such prisoners had served two thirds of their sentences, in the fifteen months before my arrival and in the fiften mouth after my arrival. It will be seen that the result of my nohering strictly to the rules of the prison, framed by Sir Percules Robinson