Every Officer or Jus-
tice to write his name
what diseases have been most prevalent therein, whether any part of the sickness may be reasonably attributed to defect in the construction or management of the Gaol, what sanitary precautions he may deem it necessary to add to those then in force, and such other matters as to him may seem fit.
LXXX. Every Non-resident Officer of the Gaol, excepting the Colonial Surgeon, on the proper Book. every Visiting Justice, and every Justice of the Peace on each occasion of his visiting the Gaol for the purposes of these Regulations, shall write his name, and the date of the visit in the Gaol Visitation Book.
Scale of Diet for Prisoners.
Power of Governor
dinates by Fine, or, in
LXXXI. The following is the prescribed allowance of food and necessaries for Prisoners, subject to such alterations as the Governor of the Gaol shall, with the consent of his said Excellency, from time to time make public:-
1. For Chinese and Persons accustomed to Chinese Diet.
Rice,
Salt or Fresh Fish,
Vegetables, in lieu of Fish,
Beef or Pork,
Bread
Vegetables,.
Tea,...
Sugar,...
Salt, Soap,
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Water as much as needed, or as much as can be used without waste, not
exceeding the prescribed allowance.
But this dietary may be altered from time to time by the Colonial Surgeon with the sanction of his said Excellency.
Victoria, Hongkong, 11th May, 1857.
G. LYALL.
(Signed)
W. T. BRIDGES.
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J. SCARTH.
T. CHISHOLM ANSTEY.
D. R. CALDWELL.
A. L. INGLIS.
(Signed) H. TUDOR DAVIES,-Chairman.
ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS, passed at a Special Meeting of the Justices of the
Peace, held on the 25th Day of June, 1857.
LXXXII. For the maintenance of good order and discipline within the Gaol, the to punish his Subor- Governor shall have the power to punish his subordinates on the Jail staff, for any conjunction with a Jus. negligence or other misconduct, by Fine; or, in conjunction with a Justice of the tice of the Peace, by Peace, by Imprisonment, or by Fine and Imprisonment, as they shall consider Imprisonment, or, by Fine and Imprison- necessary-such Fine not to exceed One Month's Pay, and such Imprisonment with
hard labor not to exceed One Month.
nient.
Power of Governor
LXXXIII. The Governor shall, in the case of grave offences within the Prison to inflict corporal pun- committed by Prisoners, have power to inflict a punishment not to exceed Fifteen
strokes of a Rattan.
ishment on Prisoners.
Governor to record
LXXXIV. The Governor shall, in every case of so punishing a subordinate or a such Punishments in Prisoner, as in the two last Regulations mentioned, record the particulars in his port to Colonial Se Journal, and report the same within Twenty-four Hours for the information of the
his Journal, and re-
cretary.
Colonial Secretary.
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RECEIVED
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1857
437
Gorrnment offices, Victorin
a tony tow, 15t cuir, 1857.
Hougton,
I have to acknowledge the
receipt of your decrated 154 Fid
on the subject of the
2nd May Ordinance #2 of 1857 which
was
passed under circumstances of great apprexension and alarm the purpose of seeming
the
pence of the Colony.
The Right Ammable
Heng Exboneture, M. P.,
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