ORDINANCE No. 4 of 1863.
Gaol.
4. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor by order in writing under his hand from time to time hereafter to appropriate and set apart any other site or sites within the said Colony as and for a gaol or gaols and a debtors' ward or debtors' wards which sites respectively shall be called by such names respectively as shall in any such order be specified.
5. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor from time to time by order in writing to determine the use of the said gaol and debtors' ward and of such other gaols and debtors' wards as shall have been formed as aforesaid or of any or either of them for the purposes of a gaol and debtors' ward respectively and to dedicate the same sites respectively for any other purposes.
6. From and after the passing of this Ordinance no person shall land upon the said Island called Stone Cutters' Island except a Justice of Peace, an officer of Police or such persons as shall be duly authorized by an order signed by the Colonial Secretary; and no vessel shall without sufficient reason approach to within the distance of one hundred yards from the said Island except Police boats, commissariat boats, boats belonging to Her Majesty's Ships of War, or boats carrying Justices of the Peace or persons employed in the service of this Government, or persons duly authorized as above; and any person who, contrary to this Ordinance, shall land on the said Island or shall being in any vessel wilfully approach within the said distance from the said Island shall incur a penalty of not exceeding five hundred dollars.
7. Each gaol shall be under the care and control of an officer to be styled the Superintendent of such Gaol, who shall be assisted by a staff to be appointed from time to time by His Excellency the Governor, [and such portion of any gaol as shall be set apart for the confinement of debtors shall be further subject to the supervision and authority of the sheriff of the Colony; Repealed by Ordinance No. 22 of 1882] and it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a Superintendent General of Prisons, if he shall think fit.
8. All persons within the said gaols and debtors' wards respectively already constituted or hereafter to be constituted shall be subject to such general and special rules and regulations and to such penalties and punishments respectively as are hereinafter authorized or as shall be laid down and imposed by rules and regulations to be passed and authorized in manner hereinafter provided.
9. The rules now in use for the regulation of the gaol of Victoria shall continue in force for the government of all gaols and debtors' wards in this Colony until the same shall be modified as hereinafter provided, and a copy of the said rules shall be continually displayed within the said gaols and debtors' wards respectively in some conspicuous place where they may be with facility seen and read by the inmates of the said gaols and debtors' wards, and a copy shall also be appended to the Justices' Visiting Book in every gaol.
10. Such regulations shall be from time to time revised or added to as may be found necessary, and for this purpose it shall be competent for His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council to make such revisions or additions...
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Governor authorized to set apart any other sites for gaol and debtors' ward. 4. Governor authorized to determine the use of the said gaol and debtors' wards. 5. Penalty on persons other than those duly authorized for landing on or approaching Stone Cutters Island. 6. How superintendents and staff for each gaol to be appointed. 7. Rules, &c., to be made. 8. Gaol rules now in use to continue until altered as after provided for. 9. Alteration of rules provided. 10.