No. 55

I have had the honor to receive Your Lordship's Circular
Despatch of the 13th March, transmitting for consideration and
Report two Tables, one relating to Criminal Statistics the
other to Prison Discipline, which you propose should be inserted
in the Annual "Blue Book."

2. I have examined these Tables and it does not appear to me
that I could make any suggestion of value for their improvement,
or modification. They seem comprehensive in character, and
simple in arrangement. And I am quite alive to the circumstance
that uniformity is essential for purposes of comparison.

3. I presume, however, that these Returns will scarcely be
applicable to this Colony except as a part of the Dominion of
Canada, and so far as they may be used in the other British
North American Provinces.