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prison in arcter that ito

construction m.

may

be

proceeded with forthwith.

6 I

should be glad

to

trave been able to accept

your

in

Conclusions as stated

your despatch 4% 60

that life and property have

prever been so secure in

as at this

moment, and that crime.

has been reduced to al

kinimum, but I observe

Heat the number ofserious

offences in 1879 is only

8 per cent less than in

1878, while it is 22 per

7

Cent more than in 1877

in which

year you

assumed

the Government, and is

more than 60 per cent

citer than in the most

greater

infavorable of the sen

years preceding your assumption

of the Government. I fail therefore to see the grounds for supposing is any great

that there

diminution

d

in actual crime more

especially since the offences

Classed

#1 R&S 9049'

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