Report on the Discipline and Management of the Convict Prisons. 1850 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...while they thus most thankfully receive the boon conferred on the colony by this measure of Her Majesty's Government, and do not in any manner wish to impose on it any conditions, feel it, nevertheless, necessary to express their opinion that the objects for which the colonists prayed for the introduction of convicts would not be fully attained if their numbers were limited to a small extent, and any doubt existed of the permanency of the system of transporting convicts hither: and therefore this meeting desire to make known this their opinion to Earl Grey, with their earnest request that all the establishments may be formed upon a scale calculated to receive large bodies of prisoners; and that Her Majesty's Government will continue, by degrees, to send out, on the system explained in Mr. Hawes's letter of the 24th December, 1849, to the Manager of the Colonization Assurance Company, such numbers as may be commensurate with the works which are necessary for the improvement of the colony, and to develop and render available its resources and capabilities. Proposed by Mr. G. Shenton, and seconded by Mr. Hamerslet, --That this meeting are desirous further of recording their gratitude to Her Majesty's Government for uniting with the transportation of convicts of deserving character the transmission to this colony of pensioners and other free emigrants; being satisfied that in proportion as labour is abundant, capital and bqndfide settlers will be attracted to the colony, and its general prosperity advanced. But, while animated with these sentiments, this meeting cannot refrain from expressing their opinion that disappointment and distress could alone await the greater part of the persons thus brought to the colony, unless the permanency as well as the magnitude ..