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Mr.

Mr

DRAFT.

MINUTE.

Mr. Fairfield.

Mr. Wingfield.

Mr. Bramston.

Mr. Meade.

Baron de Worms.

Lord Knutsford.

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for exercise and for working the

prisoners. The suggestions con-

tained in your despatch do not

however, as you will perceive,

meet what I consider to be the

requirements of the case, for they

would involve the further over-

crowding of a space already glar-

ingly overcrowded, and in this and

other respects they may be re-

garded as creating evils not now

At the same Eins

existing. I do not object, kom

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ever, to substituting a flat roof

for the present ridge over the Co

vict working shed in the yard at

the south east angle of the build

ing and surmounting this flat roof

by a second one supported on co- ?

lumns, so as to give two open sheds

for working instead of one.

4. Turning to more general

matters, I may observe that in my

opinion it must be regarded as a

necessary feature in any scheme of

compromise, that it should pro-

vide separato cells for the total

number of male prisoners belonging

to the criminal class calculat-

ed on a average of, say, the last

four years.

The average total of