CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6] — Page 118

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"until the new machinery moves " smoothly in the new lines. In the "present case, the changes "generally)" approved of; but it seems

were not

"to me that the inconveniences were

"short in duration and small in

"fact.

It is unnecessary

unnecessary to restate the

"facts, which appear selfficiently clear Eupon the Reports and Tabular

*Statements, and I will confine myself

"to the statement

of

the conclusions

"I have come to upon thell figures "and reports and upon my own "observations as bhief Justice.

fot" He is Excellency Governor

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"Hennessy has restored the rule "according to which Sir Hercules "Robinson dealt with convicts.

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"In 1866, the Executive, in order

"to avoid the expenses of

a second

"gaol, gave conditional pardons, without reference to myself as Chief Justice, to "hundreds of prisoners after having

served

very

short portions of their "sentences, the condition being that they "should leave the bolony, and this "practice was followed subsequently.

"Sost

of

these men returned to

"the Colony and to that I "attribute the formation of

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