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few months before be left Boussons) had good reason, in the absence of

any ther cause

increase

for counceling the Crime in the Colony

with the cheap gares from Canton. His Lordship however was good enough to add "It is true howeve

tant

11143

as

pointed out in your Ferrata

143 of 222 June 1877 the increasing

number of recommittals and

may be to

convictions generally mar come extent accounted for by defects especially

in the prison system as

by the fact of the discipline of the Gool not being sufficiently severe

to act as

a.

deterrent "

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2.

Next to the serious soirs of

the apociated system, one of the

gravert defects I found

Houghtons Gaol

I

in the

was the excepive amouné

food given to the Chinese prisoners. "The enclosed extracês from Minutes

ņ

various Meetings of

Council contain

aná proceedings

the Executive

a record of my views

this important

question of irison dietary not beine

in my opinion sufficiently deterrent.

3.

The

Regulations on this entject ofthe garl Commision that und been presided over by Sr. Snowden

had been adopted and promulgated

a

short time before my arrival,