$
Overseer's Salary45.00
Labour of 125 Convicts,
at 25cts. per diem for artizans
and 9cts. for labourers		306.00
Cost of Fuel200.00
Wear and Tear17.10
Food for Cattle24.30
Contingencies16.20
Total$608.60
$
Value of 230,000 of Bricks at $45 per laksa,
that being the market price for Government Bricks		1,035.00
Deduct cost of manufacture608.60
Difference to credit of the State$426.40

Bricks were debited to Government Works at $20 per laksa. The size of a Government brick mould was 10¼ x 5¼ x 3 ins. The bricks when burnt measured 9 x 4½ x 2¾ ins., and weighed about 7 lbs. when dry, and about 7 lbs. 3 or 4 ozs. after soaking in fresh water. These were ordinary bricks, but those manufactured for hydraulic work were impervious to water.

Note.—The size of a Chinese-made brick when burnt is 10 x 5 x 1½ ins. It requires 22 Chinese-made bricks to build one cubic foot of brickwork, but of convict-made Government bricks a cubic foot of brickwork requires 13 only.

APPENDIX V

Number and nature of defaults committed by Indian convicts:—

Nature of Defaults.For the year
1846.1856.1866.
Stealing111111
Disobedience of Orders4110
Drunkenness2156
Assault1——
Neglect of Duty42212
Smuggling Articles into Jail4—4
Disturbing Women at Night1——
Sleeping while on Duty137
Cutting and Wounding11—
Breaking open a Convict's Box1——
Allowing Local Prisoners tospeak to Outside Men—1—
Receiving Money for SafeKeeping and Denying the Same—3—
Quarrelling and Abusing—59
Telling Falsehood—32
Allowing Local Prisoners toAbscond—319
Idleness at Work—13
Gambling—64
Absent from Roll Call—417
Impertinence to Warder—1—
Selling his own Cloths—2—
Confined by the Police—5—
Striking a Fellow-Convict—53
Refusing to Work—36
Unlawfully Detaining aMan's Sampan—1—
Creating a Disturbance—22
Bringing a False Charge—11
Writing a Threatening Petition—2—
Having Stolen Property inPossession—1—
Wilfully Destroying Tools—1—
Carelessness at Work—76
Leaving Work without Orders—44
Intending to Abscond—11—
Bringing a Woman into theHospital at Night—1—
Selling Rations—2—
Begging in the Streets—13
Committing a Nuisance—1—
Mixed up in Street Rows—1—
Counterfeiting Coin—1—
Buying Rations from aFellow-Convict——1
Pawning——1
Suspected of Thieving——2
Losing Cloths——4
Leaving his Watch——6
Committed by the Police——9
Attempting to Commit Suicide——1
Marrying without Permission——1
Carrying Letters for LocalPrisoners——3
Disrespect to Superiors——2
Obtaining Money under FalsePretences——1
Receiving Bribes——1
Impertinence——2
Malingering——2
Suspected of being Concernedin a Murder——2
Assaulting a Free Man——4
Total30132172

This table gives the number and nature of the defaults committed by the Indian convicts for the years 1846, 1856 and 1866, but it is doubtful whether the list for 1846 is complete, as the prison records do not appear to have been fully kept up; anyhow they are not to be found, and at that time the inquiry room had not been established. The number of convicts under discipline and on ticket of leave during the twenty years was between 1,900 and 2,500, which shows a small percentage of defaulters, and they are all, with few exceptions, of a petty nature.