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20. He shall fully explain to every Officer his duties and shall take care that every Officer of the Gaol is in- structed in the duty required of him in case of fire, or in case of any attempt to escape made by a single prisoner or one and more in concert.
21. He shall take proper and discrect means to ascertain, that no visitor bring into the Gaol anything not permitted by the rules of the Gaol, or in his opinion objectionable.
22. The names of visitors to prisoners, and the particulars of their visit, shall be entered in the Visitors' Book by the Clerk; and the Superintendent of the Gaol, or in his absence, the Warden, on reasonable grounds of suspicion, may require that such visitors be searched in his presence, except in the case of females who shall be searched by the Matron in a private room.
23. Should such visitors refuse to give their names and address or to be searched, he may refuse them admittance. 24. The Superintendent of the Gaol shall cause the following books to be kept, and shall be responsible that they shall be safely preserved, and entries accurately made, and that no alteration or erasure of entries be made without the sanction as proved by initials by him.
THE WARDEN AND HIS DUTIES.
25. The Warden shall consider the Superintendent of the Gaol for the time being, his immediate superior, and shall perform all his lawful commands.
26. He shall make himself thoroughly acquainted with the Rules and Regulations, and on no account shall he leave the Gaol during the temporary absence of the Superintendent, nor during the presence of the Superintendent without his permission. A Deputy Warden shall be appointed by the Superintendent to act during such absence, who shall have all the powers, duties and responsibilities of the Warden.
27. He shall take charge of the Gaol during the temporary absence of the Superintendent.
28. He shall make a weekly inspection of the Turnkeys' quarters, and report any damage he may find thereto, beyond what is accountable by fair wear and tear.
29. Before leaving the Gaol, the Warden shall personally give over charge to the Deputy with all necessary
instructions.
30. On the admission of each prisoner, it shall be the duty of the Warden, or Clerk, to record in the Gaol Register the name, sex, age, height, features and country of each prisoner, also whether such prisoner can read and write, and all other particulars required to be entered.
31. He shall take care that every prisoner on admission is put into a reception cell and strictly searched, and that all knives, weapons, instruments, money, opium, tobacco, or anything forbidden by Government Regulations, or anything likely to facilitato escape, be taken from such prisoner. No such search shall be made in the presence of
other prisoner.
any
32. No female prisoner shall be searched by any one except the Matron.
33. He shall take care that all articles taken from prisoners, with their clothes and other effects, and all such things as may, from time to time, be sent in on the prisoners' account, shall be entered in the Prisoners' Property Book with the date of their receipt and of their restoration as hereinafter mentioned.
34. All such property shall be carefully kept in a suitable place to be provided for the purpose, and shall be restored to the prisoner on his discharge, except such clothes as it may be considered necessary to destroy, or such money or property as His Excellency the Governor may think fit to confiscate, or such money or property as His Excellency the Governor may think fit to allow a prisoner to have the use of for the purposes of assisting him in his defence on his trial.
35. He shall attend every corporal punishment inflicted within the Gaol, and enter in the Occurrence Book the day and hour of the infliction of the punishment, with the number of the strokes or lashes and the directions of the Medical Officer thereon.
36. He shall, in no case, inflict any punishment without the orders of the Superintendent of the Gaol, or in the case of corporal punishment, without a certificate previously given in writing by the Medical Officer that the person to be punished is in a fit state of health to receive the number of strokes or lashes awarded to him without injury.
THE MATRON'S DUTIES.
37. The Matron shall reside in the Gaol, and be under the orders of the Superintendent.
38. She shall carry out all the rules laid down for the direction of the Warden as to male prisoners, so far as such rules are applicable to female prisoners.
39. She shall be present at the distribution of food to female prisoners, and see every such prisoner at least twice in each 24 hours.
40. She shall not be absent from the Gaol after the hours of closing, without the leave of the Superintendent. 41. She shall search every female prisoner on admission, and as often as she thinks necessary, but not in the presence
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male person, or any other prisoner,
42. She shall hand over all property found on a female prisoner and clothes not suitable for wearing in the Gaol to the Warden to be dealt with according to the provisions of Rule 33.
43. In case of necessity, and with the sanction of the Superintendent, she may delegate her duties to the wife of an officer of the Gaol, or some other married woman.
44. The Matron shall keep constantly in her possession the keys of all cells, wards, or rooms in which female prisoners shall be confined, and the locks and keys of such cells, wards, or rooms shall be different from those of the cells, wards, or rooms for male prisoners.
45. The Matron shall inspect every part of the prismccupied by females, and see every female prisoner therein at least twice in every 24 hours and shall at least once a week go thruagh such part of the prison at an uncertain hour in the night.
The Rules for the conduct of the Superintendent and Wacka shall apply to the Matron, so far as the came are applicable.