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vieted prisoners in the gaol, from Ist May, 18G3, to 30th April, 18G8. («.) Return of rations. (Note by chairman, " not in printed regulations.") ( f.) Return of average number of prisoners, from Ist May, 1863, to 30th April, 1868. (//.) Return of prison punishments during the last five years. (h.) Answers by Medical Officer to Commissioners' questions. (8.) JDunedin — (<7.) List of books kept in the gaol. (5.) Regulations for officers of the prison. (c.) Rules for the messroom. (<£) Cell rules. (c.) Rules for prisoners in separate or solitary confinement. (/.) Gaol regulations for Otago. 23rd December, 1863. (g.) Return showing the number of prison punishments, with cause, amount, and repetition by the same prisoner, in Her Majesty's Gaol, at Dunedin, from Ist January, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (h.) Return showing the total number of prisoners who have been re-committed, from Ist January, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. («.) Return showing the total number of prisoners received into Her Majesty's Gaol, at Dunedin, from Ist January, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (J.) Return showing the total number of debtors, received into Her Majesty's Gaol, at Dunedin, from Ist January, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (7c.) Return showing the total number of lunatics not criminals, received into Her Majesty's Gaol, Dunedin, from Ist January, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (I.) Return showing the total number of prisoners for trial received into Her Majesty's Gaol, at Dunedin, from Ist January, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (to.) Return showing the total number of prisoners received into Her Majesty's Gaol, at Dunedin, sentenced by summary conviction, from Ist January, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (».) Return showing the total number of prisoners received into Pier Majesty's Gaol, at Dunedin, who were convicted, but without hard labour, from Ist January, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (o.) Return showing the total number of prisoners received into Her Majesty's Gaol, at Dunedin, who were sentenced to hard labour, and the length of sentence, from Ist January, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (p.) Return showing the total number of prisoners received into Her Majesty's Gaol, at Dunedin, who were sentenced to penal servitude, from Ist January, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (<?•) Return showing the total number of prisoners received into Her Majesty's Gaol, at Dunedin, who were sentenced to death, but whose sentence was commuted, and for what, from Ist January, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (r.) Return showing the total number of juvenile offenders received into Her Majesty's Gaol, Dunedin, from Ist January, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (s.) Return showing the total number of women and girls received into Her Majesty's Gaol, at Dunedin, from Ist January, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (t.) Return showing the religious persuasion of all prisoners received into Her Majesty's Gaol, at Dunedin, from Ist April, 1867, to 31st March, 1868. (a.) Return showing a catalogue of books forming the Library, for the use of the prisoners in Her Majesty's Gaol, at Dunedin. (».) Return showing the expenditure and value of prison labour for the year ended 31st March, 1868. (w.) Return showing the aggregate cost of rations issued to prisoners in Her Majesty's Gaol, at

Dunedin, from Ist January, 1863, to 31sfc December, 1867. (x.) Return showing aggregate amount of salaries and wages of officers in Her Majesty's Gaol, at Dunedin, from Ist January, 1863, to 31st January, 1867; also details of all officers for the same period. (jj) Return of instructions to officers in Her Majesty's Gaol, in Dunedin. (z.) Return showing alphabetical list of prisoners in Her Majesty's Gaol, at Dunedin, sentenced to penal servitude. (««.) Scale of rations. (55.) Time table. (cc.) Return showing the number of pardons and remissions of sentences of prisoners in Her Majesty's Gaol, Dunedin, during the last seven years, with full particulars of the same. (dd.) Return showing the amount and description of work done annually by prisoners sentenced to penal servitude and hard labour in Her Majesty's Gaol, Dunedin, from 27th May, 1863, to the 31st December, 1867. (cc.) Return showing the amount of work done annually by prisoners sentenced to penal servitude and hard labour in Her Majesty's Gaol, Dunedin, from 27th May, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (ff.) Return showing the annual expenditure of Her Majesty's Gaol, in Dunedin, from Ist January, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (gg-) Return showing the estimated annual value as rent of the Dunedin Gaol, and other district gaols in the Province, 28th April, 1868. (hh.) Return showing amount expended on gaol buildings in the Province of Otago, to 31st December, 1867. (».) Return showing amount expended on gaols in the Province of Otago, from January, 1861, to the 31st December, 1867--(9.) lnvercargill. — (a.) Return of gaol expenditure. (5.) Return of estimated value of prison labour. (c.) Return of pardons and remission of sentences granted to prisoners in Her Majesty's Gaol, lnvercargill, from November, 186-4, to 15th January, 1868. (d.) List of books kept in Her Majesty's Gaol, at lnvercargill. (c.) Return of prison punishments from 3rd June, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (/.) Return of prisoners received and of re-com-mittal to Her Majesty's Gaol, at lnvercargill, from 27th April, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (g.) Return of prisoners received in Her Majesty's Gaol, at lnvercargill, from 27th April, 1863, to 31st December, 1867. (A) Return in detail of salaries of officers at Her Majesty's Gaol, at lnvercargill, to April, 1868. («.) Return showing the scale of rations, and total cost for month of March, 1868. (10.) Picloit — (a.) Return of description and amount of work done annually by prisoners under sentence of penal servitude, or hard labour, from Ist January, 1861, to 31st December, 1867. (b.) Return of annual expenditure on gaol, between Ist January, 1861, and 31st December, 1867. VI. —Plans op the pbincipae Peisons. (Index Nba. irO 1 Guard Book. 5 I. —Wellington. 11.-Lyttelton, | Canterbury. 111. —(Jhristchureh,) J IV.—Hokitika. V. —Nelson. Vl.—Auckland. Vll.—New Plymouth. VIII— Napier. IX. —Dunedin. X.—lnvercargill. Xl.—Picton.

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