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our 90 districts a number of 1080 cells. At 500
R:dr B:co for each cell the whole expense would
amount to 540,000 R:dr B:co. It will probably
be objected, that through this measure considerable
expenses will arise to the state, which have hitherto
been paid by the districts themselves. But does
not this money, at all events, come from those
who pay taxes; the expense will surely not be less,
or the burden lighter, because it does not appear
in the accounts of the government? The duty of
supporting and watching should be directed in
future according to the regulations heretofore followed.
After the prisons for confinement before trial
have been thus put in proper order, it should be
enacted, according to the proposal of the
law-committee : “that every person imprisoned for crime to
be examined within the district, be immediately
taken to that court where the examination is to
take place, and remain in prison there till the
examination is finished, or till the court liberate him.
The crowding together of prisoners while waiting
for trial, in the county-jails, would thus be avoided;
and also their conveyance backwards and forwards,
in case the examinations must be conducted at
different times; an opportunity is also afforded for
keeping them properly separated, as these prisons
cannot be so full as the county-jails.”
Whether the prisoner ought to remain in the
temporary prison or not, after the judgment is
passed in a lower court, but where the case has
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