[73] Ibid., p. 59.
[74] Report of the Departmental Committee on Vagrancy, Vol. I., pp. 51 and 53-54.
[75] Ibid., p. 66.
[76] Ibid., p. 70.
[77] Report of the Departmental Committee on Vagrancy, Vol. I., p. 80.
[78] Ibid., p. 87.
[79] Ibid., p. 77.
[80] "There are no means of estimating approximately the number of tramps who might properly be committed to labour colonies, and it is even more impossible to estimate how many would actually be committed if provision were made by law for the purpose. The result of any Government Department undertaking to supply sufficient accommodation for all the vagrants committed by the magistrates would either be that the accommodation would be wholly inadequate for the requirements, or, as is perhaps more probable, that public money would be wasted in establishing and fitting up institutions in which, for at all events some years, the provision made would be altogether disproportionate to the number of inmates....
"There is another consideration to which we attach great weight, and it is that labour colonies established by the State would inevitably have to be all of the same type, and we have at present no sufficient knowledge to determine exactly what that type should be."—Report, Vol. I., pp. 75.
[81] See pp. 89-91.