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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH MARCH, 1877.
PUNISHMENTS FOR BREACHES OF GAOL RULES.
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120. The Superintendent shall have power to inflict the following punishments for breaches of Gaol rules, or
offence mentioned in Rule 7, without the sanction of the Visiting Justices:-
any
1st. To deprive any prisoner (debtors and 1st class misdemeanants included) of one meal in any one day. 2nd. Or to put any such prisoner on a bread and water, or rice and water diet for not more than 3 days consecutively.
3rd. To order any convicted prisoner to be put in chains, handcuffs, or irons for not more than 24 hours consecutively.
4th. To order any convicted prisoner, not being a Ist class misdemeanant, to undergo solitary confinement for not more than 3 days consecutively.
5th. To order any convicted prisoner, not being a 1st class misdemeanant, to do shot drill, extra or not, with a 32 lb. shot if required, or to work at a crank or at oakum picking.
PUNISHMENTS FOR BREACHES OF GAOL RULES OF A MORE SERIOUS CHARACTER FOR WHICH THE SANCTION OF THE VISITING
JUSTICES, &c., MUST BE OBTAINED.
121. In the case of offences for which the above punishments are not adequate, in the opinion of the Superintendent, notice shall be sent to the two Visiting Justices for the weck, or to a Police Magistrate, if no Visiting Justice can attend within a reasonable time.
122. With the sanction of such Visiting Justices, or Police Magistrate, the Superintendent shall have the power to inflict a flogging with not more than 24 strokes with a cat or rattan cane on the back or breech of any male prisoner above the age of 16 years, and not being a debtor or 1st class misdemeanant, or under the age of 16 years
with not more than 10 strokes with a small rattan cane on the breech.
123. With the sanction of such Visiting Justices, or Police Magistrate, the Superintendent may confine any convicted prisoner in a solitary cell in chains, irons, or handcuffs for more than 24 hours.
124. No corporal punishment or confinement, as last mentioned, shall be inflicted, except after a careful investigation of the circumstances of each case narrated, by witnesses on oath, and the power to administer the usual oath is hereby conferred on such Visiting Justices, and Police Magistrate; and such Visiting Justices and Police Magistrate shall enter in a book a short statement of each case, with the evidence, the judgment, and the sentence thereon.
MESS.
1. A Mess is to be established, and all Turnkeys whose wives do not live in Hongkong are to be members of it. 2. An entrance fee of $5 is to be paid by all members joining, or so soon after as may be decided upon by the Superintendent, excepting in the case of the men joining after the 1st of the month whose entrance fee will not be collected until the next pay day but one.
3. A Committee consisting of 3 Turnkeys will be elected monthly by the members of the mess to supervise generally all arrangements connected therewith. One of the Committee will be appointed Mess Caterer for the month, and another as his Deputy, who must act as Caterer in his absence from sickness or any other cause.
4. Breakfast will be served at
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5. The President during his term of office takes precedence at the table, then the Officers according to their rank in the Gaol.
6. All the members of the mess are to appear at table at the proper hours decently dressed.
7. The Mess Caterer will be held reponsible that the meats of the men absent on duty are kept hot until the return of the absentees.
8. A sufficient number of cooks and waiters to be engaged by the Mess Committee.
9. None of the cooks and servants are to be interfered with by any member of the mess other than one of the Mess Committee or the Caterer.
10. All complaints to be made to the Warden, whose duty it will be to remedy, as far as possible, such matters as may be brought to his notice, but he may, in his discretion, refer the matter to the Superintendent.
11. The Caterer will render a daily account of his expenditure to the President, who will enter clearly and fully the various items in a book to be kept for that purpose.
12. The Superintendent will obtain tenders for the supply of the mess every six months.
13. The Superintendent is authorised to exempt the Caterer of the mess from a certain moderate portion of his official duties to enable him to see to the requirements of the mess.
14. A Balance Sheet will be made out on the first of each month after the examination of accounts showing the expenditure and the amount of each man's messing and to be posted in the Mess Room.
15. The Superintendent may deduct the cost of each man's messing from his pay, will pay the Contractor's and other bills, and take charge of any balance.
16. All books and accounts shall be open to the inspection of all members of the mess.
17. All profits arising from the retailing of any articles purchased in bulk for or on behalf of the mess, of whatever nature, are to be placed to the credit of the mess fund, and no member is to derive any profit from any transaction whatever made on behalf of the mess.
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H. E. WODEHOUSE,
Clerk of Councils.
Hongkong, Sth March, 1877.
Approved in Council,
J. GARDINER AUSTIN,
Administrator.