Preface
Contents
List of Illustrations and Plates
Chapter I EARLY RECORDS OF BENCOOLEN AND OBSERVATIONS ABOUT CONVICTS
Chapter II A SLIGHT SKETCH OF PENANG AND THE TREATMENT OF THE CONVICTS THERE
Chapter III OLD MALACCA AND THE FIRST INTRODUCTION OF CONVICTS THERE
Chapter IV A RUNNING HISTORY OF SINGAPORE: ITS JAIL SYSTEM AND ADMINISTRATION
Chapter V SINGAPORE ( Continued )
Chapter VI SINGAPORE ( Continued )
Chapter VII SINGAPORE ( Continued )
Chapter VIII DIVISION INTO CLASSES, TRADES, FOOD, AND CLOTHING
Chapter IX PUBLIC WORKS AND INDUSTRIES
Chapter X STORIES ABOUT INDIAN CONVICTS AND EUROPEAN LOCAL PRISONERS No. 1
Chapter XI ABOLITION OF THE CONVICT DEPARTMENT AND DISPOSAL OF THE CONVICTS
Chapter XII DISEASES AND MALINGERING
Chapter XIII CONCLUSION
APPENDICES
APPENDIX I
APPENDIX II
APPENDIX III
APPENDIX IV
APPENDIX V
APPENDIX VI
APPENDIX VII
APPENDIX VIII
APPENDIX IX
Index
PRISONERS THEIR OWN WARDERS
Muster of Convicts
GENERAL MONTHLY MUSTER OF THE CONVICTS, SINGAPORE JAIL.
Frontispiece
PRISONERS THEIR OWN
WARDERS
A RECORD OF THE CONVICT PRISON AT SINGAPORE
IN THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS ESTABLISHED 1825,
DISCONTINUED 1873, TOGETHER WITH A
CURSORY HISTORY OF THE CONVICT
ESTABLISHMENTS AT BENCOOLEN,
PENANG AND MALACCA FROM
THE YEAR 1797
BY MAJOR J. R A. McNAIR
Late Royal Artillery, C.M.G., A.M.I.C.E., F.L.S., and F.R.G.S
Late Colonial Engineer and Surveyor General and Comptroller of Indian Convicts
Straits Settlements from 1857 to 1877 Author of "Perak
and the Malays" (Sarong and Kris)
Assisted by W. D. BAYLISS
Mem. Soc. Engineers Lond., Late Superintendent of Works and
Surveys and Superintendent of Convicts, Singapore
WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
"A willing bondman."
—Shakespeare
(Julius Caesar, Act I., Sc. 3)
WESTMINSTER
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO
2 WHITEHALL GARDENS
1899
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Frome, and London.
Portrait of Indian Petty Officer
[Mcnair.
DUFFADAR ARJOON, SENIOR PETTY OFFICER
OF ARTIFICERS.
