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enclose.

5.

One remedy, for any

there

may

be

overcrowding of the Gaol, suggested in the memorial, is to favour the free emigration of ex-convicts to newly explored or thinly populated countries. I need

that such a

hardly say proposal is quite impracticable.

Nor

Can

I endorse the~

recommendation to interfere with the discretion of the Magistrates in regard to

their

their

passing

such sentences

as are in accord with the

law.

The third suggestion

that juvenile offenders should

be sent to the Roman Catholie

Reformatory would, if adopted, and it is, I.

under

may

mention,

my

consideration,

afford very little relief seeing

that the number of juvenile offenders confined in the Gaol, is very small. It is at present only 10 and was last month only 11.

6.