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rent for inspectors, &c., £558 ; clerical assistance, £30 : total 

 police force, £24,630. 



Royal Gaol. — The Royal Gaol is not on the separate 

 system. Separation by night is carried ont as far as the cell 

 accommodation permits. By day all male prisoners work in 

 association; the females are, in great measure, separated from 

 each other. All prisoners in association by day are under the 

 constant supervision of warders. There are in the Royal Gaol 

 126 separate cells : wards and cells in association, 37. At the 

 Royal Gaol religious service is performed every Sunday, and 

 religious instruction given on one evening in each week by the 

 chaplains. A schoolmaster attends four evenings a week to give 

 instruction to male prisoners who are sentenced to twelve months 

 and upwards ; also to juveniles. 



Besides the Royal Gaol there are two convict depots, where 

 male prisoners, under hard labour, are sent ; one at Chaguanas at 

 the entrance of an extensive forest. Separate cells at the 

 depot, 126. 



The prisoners are there employed in carrying railway sleepers, 

 hauling logs, cutting wood, cutting traces through the forest, 

 and cultivating provisions. Carrera's Island is a small calcareous 

 islet at the entrance of the Bay of Chaguaramas, where prisoners 

 are employed in quarrying stones and breaking road metal. 

 Separate cells, 56. 



All the Royal Gaol male prisoners are utilised in quarrying 

 stones and breaking road metal at the Government quarries, 

 keeping the grounds of Government institutions in order, 

 working at trades within the prison walls ; female prisoners in 

 needlework, washing clothes, and breaking stones. 



Inspector of prisons, £100 ; superintendents, £400 ; clerk and 

 teacher, £50 ; overseer, £170 : £720 ; eighteen warders, £1,220 ; 

 hospital attendant, matron, messenger, £320 : total Royal Gaol, 

 £2,260. Chaguanas convict depot : superintendent, £300 ; 

 I ten warders, watchmen, £740 : total, £1,040. Carrera's Island : 

 Five warders, £370; allowances, inspector of prisons, and keeper 

 of gaol for travelling expenses, £100 ; warders for quarters, 

 |£400 : total, gaol and depots, £4,170. 



Railways. — This section belongs to the Public Works 

 Department. So far back as the time of Lord Harris, a company 

 had been formed in England with the object of constructing, in 



