CO129-328 - Governor Nathan - 1905 [1-6] — Page 731

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retary of 26th

May,

fficer Ad fea

. De 4/98 884 of 29th December,

Secretary of State's No.

Governor's Despatch

No. 103 of 26th. April,

1889. 13678

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present shape is the outcome of the correspondence noted

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in the margin, but the law has been found to be ineffective

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in mitigating the evil against which it was designed.'

The principal reasons for this in-

-efficacy are that under it a sufficiently rigorous treat-

-ment of vagrants in the House of Detention is not possible,

and that owing to the wording of Section 22 the recovery

of costs incurred by the Government on behalf of vagrants

and therefore the infliction of the penalty involved by

are extremely difficult.

this repayment on vessels bringing destitutes to the Colony

4.

I have therefore to submit for

the signification of His Majesty's pleasure the accompany-

-ing Ordinance entitled "An Ordinance to amend the Vagrancy

Enclosure 1.

-cafe.)

No. 2 of 1905; in dupli- Enclosure 2. 24th June, 1906.

Ordinance, 1897," and I enclose the usual report upon it

by the Attorney-General.

5.

·

The object of Section 2 is merely

to repeal a section which was without meaning for while a

vagrant is in charge of the Police or outside the Gaol

seeking employment he cannot be brought under Gaol Regula-

-tions, while the amendments effected by Sections 3 and 4

will result in vagrants in the House of Detention being

subjected to a lower scale of diet (as reference to the

enclosed