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is on raised

ound and therefore ground limited to the exact area contained. within its boundary walls, it is

entilly wanting in the clasticity

which is essential to a Court in which the whole of the criminal business of

the

Only

Colony

is transacted.

one narrow entrance

is provided at which the public, the prisoners, the officials, and the

Magis Mates

carr

approach it. All

day long there would be a constant block of people coming

In

any important case be the

and

going.

there would

greatest difficulty in pre- venting communication with pri- soners and their friends, and in

the witnesses isolated. No

keeping

quarters

are provided for the First

Clerk who is invested with the important functions of bailing out prisoners and otherwise attending

to

to the business of the Court when

the Magistrates

are a

bsent, and in

always.

the general bustle that

on in connection with the goes payment of fines, depositing of security,

and the constant f

of the

general public interested in the trials that take place, I can anticipate nothing

but con.

fusion. The offices are small

and ill suited for

the

despatch

of business, and the absence of

latrines and other

arrangemen

k

necessary for the convencence of people who waiting of the hearing of an important

may perhaps be kept

day long

all

in the course

trial will make the existence of the Court a nuisance and a dan.

ден

to the surrounding neighbow- hood. In fact I should not be exceeding the limits of moderation

in