framing of the Prison Regulations I beg to refer to section 10 of the Ordinance which vests the making of these in the Governor in Executive Council, and, in continuation of a system that has worked well for many years past gives a privilege of suggestion to the Magistrates, but retains the power of acceptance or rejection in the hands of the Governor, who naturally and invariably consults his Council before giving effect to his decision!
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4. With regard to the infliction of Corporal punishment which your Grace remarks, I have to state that Sections 42 and 43 of the existing Regulations of 1857 not only make it imperative that such punishment shall be distinctly recorded with its cause and its amount, but that the medical officer shall certify in writing that the offender is in a fit state of health to bear the chastisement without injury.
5. This explanation will, I trust, meet your Grace's direction in this respect. This power is very rarely used, but the necessity of possessing it is greatly felt,