Tools -- 1 --

Carelessness at Work -- 7 6

Leaving Work without Orders -- 4 4

Intending to Abscond -- 11 --

Bringing a Woman into the
Hospital at Night -- 1 --

Selling Rations -- 2 --

Begging in the Streets -- 1 3

Committing a Nuisance -- 1 --

Mixed up in Street Rows -- 1 --

Counterfeiting Coin -- 1 --

Buying Rations from a
Fellow-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 Local
Prisoners -- -- 3

Disrespect to Superiors -- -- 2

Obtaining Money under False
Pretences -- -- 1

Receiving Bribes -- -- 1

Impertinence -- -- 2

Malingering -- -- 2

Suspected of being Concerned
in a Murder -- -- 2

Assaulting a Free Man -- -- 4
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Total 30 132 172
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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.

APPENDIX VI

Extracts from letters from T. Church, Esq., R