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REMARKS. 



The Commissioners forget that it has been pre- 

 viously proved, that the laws respecting vagrancy 

 could not be put in execution for want of agents 

 and of buildings, and that it would require a great 

 many years to construct penitentiaries of modern 

 invention. With respect to non-penal colonies, 

 as they are called, these would be insufficient to 

 give occupation and subsistence to that multitude 

 of vagrants with which it is proposed to people 

 them. It appears that Great Britain and Ire- 

 land are better able to fulfil this task than any 

 colony. 



