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Jovery convicted Prisoner not a Felon shall be considered a Misdemeanant for purposes of these Regulations.
LIX. Prisoners are to be cleanly in their persons and habits.
Spitting, except in the receptacles provided for that purpose,
Dropping or depositing offensive matter in the Rooms, Cells, or Passages, Suffering the Cells or Rooms to be defiled and the like,
so forbidden.
LX. All Prisoners of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Class shall be compellable to sweep and lime-wash the rooms in which they shall be confined, and to wash their is and clothes as often as required by the Governor; and Prisoners of the other s to do the same, or cause it to be done.
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Prisoners to cloan their Cells, &c.
Two Prisoners not to
LXI. Two Male Prisoners only shall never be lodged together; the number fed in one Cell or Room shall be one, three, or more. If there be only one Pri- occupy one Coll.
of a particular Class confined in the Gaol, the Governor with the consent of Prisoner, may assign such Prisoner to any other Class.
LXII. No Officer or Guard attached to the Gaol shall be allowed Rations, nor Restriction as to
in any case be supplied with Rations by the Contractor who shall provide guard Rations. s for the Prisoners, unless he be a Constable borne on the strength of the ce Force, and such Rations be those to which he is entitled as such Constable, the Contractor for the Prisoners be also Contractor for the Police Force. LXIII. No Officer of the Gaol shall receive any Payment or Gratuity of any from any Prisoner, Visitor, or other Person, under any pretence whatever, ess he be expressly authorised by Act of Parliament or by a Colonial Ordinance reveive such Payment or Gratuity.
XIV. No Officer of the Gaol shall visit, by entry within her Cell, any Female soner, unless in presence of the Matron.
LXV. The distribution of Rations and Clothing shall be personally superin- ed by an Officer of the Gaol. Any Prisoner may request the Officer distri- ing to weigh or measure in his presence, or allow him to weigh or measure, any le of Food so distributed to him, and the Officer shall comply with the request, pt it appear to the Governor of the Gaol that such request is vexatiously made, such request and refusal shall be noted by the said Governor in his Journal. LXVI. Chinese Prisoners and others accustomed to Chinese diet shall have at st two hot meals a day; and other Prisoners shall have three meals a day, two at bust of them hot meals.
Officers of Gaol not to receive Gratuities.
Visits to Females.
Gaoler to Superin- Rations, &c.
tend the distribution of
Chinese diet.
Provisions for Per- sons confined for Debt,
LXVII. Any Prisoner untried, or confined for Debt, on a Civil Process, may any one day of Twenty-four Hours, receive from a friend or servant, at proper &c.
rs a reasonable quantity of cooked provisions, and not exceeding one quart of liquor, or at his option one pint of wine, and any linen, bedding, clothing, or necessaries, subject to strict search, and under such Regulations as the Go- or of the Gaol may think expedient; and he may, at the request of the Prisoner, for such Articles out of any Money he may have belonging to the Prisoner; but y part of such Articles be transferred to another Prisoner, the said Governor prohibit their further receipt, and place the Prisoner on Gaol allowance, record- the facts in his Journal.-On any day that the Prisoner receives such articles of he shall not receive the Gaol allowance. No fermented or spirituous Liquor with these exceptions, be used by any Person whatever, unless by order of the Velical Officer, and in such quantity as he may prescribe.
LXVIII. Every Prisoner shall be allowed Half-an-hour for the consumption of Time for Meals.
Meal, and shall not be set to work until the expiration of the quarter of an ar immediately succeeding such half hour.
LXIX. Every convicted Prisoner, and every Prisoner confined for a breach of
Description of La- Revenue Laws, or for want of Sureties, shall Labour to the utmost of his ability bour for Prisoners. thin the Prison premises, and shall be set to that kind of Labour which from his tural abilities or previous habits shall appear most profitable; and every convicted rn shall also be compellable to labour in Irons without the Gaol premises, unless at either case it be otherwise ordered in the Warrant of Commitment, or by the Governor of the Gaol. Every Prisoner untried, or confined for Debt or on Civil Process, shall, at his own request, and for so long only as he shall desire, be set to Work in the same manner as convicted Prisoners not Felons. And, after the close of the Month of December, in each Year, the said Governor shall make out an perunt of the profit and loss of Gaol Labour for the preceding Year, and such account Shall be forwarded to the Colonial Secretary for the information of his said Excellency.
LXX. No Work shall be done in the Gaol on Sunday.
Not to work on Sun- days.
Prisoners under Sen-
LXXI Every Prisoner condemned to Death shall be confined in some safe place within the Gaol, apart from all other Prisoner, and shall be allowed such a tence of Death.
tary as the Sheriff with the approval of the Colonial Surgeon may direct, and no Persons other than an Officer of the Gaol shall be allowed to visit him, unless by
der in writing from the Sheriff.