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To have in his or her possession any tobacco, opium, stimulant, book, paper, or luxury unless expressly allowed by the rules of the Gaol, and received from or through the Superintendent.
106. No gaming shall be permitted in the Gaol, and the Superintendent may seize and destroy every instrument thereof.
107. Prisoners must obey the orders of the Officers of the Gaol in every respect.
108. Should any prisoner think himself aggrieved by the demeanour or conduct of any other prisoner, or of any of the Warders or Officers of the Gaol, he shall complain to the Superintendent, or the Visiting Justices.
109. All persons confined in the Gaol shall wash their persons and clothes as often as may be required by the Superintendent.
110. Prisoners of the 2nd, 4th, and 6th classes shall sweep, wash and lime wash the rooms in which they shall be confined, as often as required to do so by the Superintendent.
Prisoners of the 3rd, 5th, and 8th class (debtors) shall keep the cells and rooms in which they are confined clean.
111. Two male prisoners only shall never be lodged together.
112. If there be only one prisoner of a particular class confined in the Gaol, the Superintendent may, with the consent of such prisoner, place him with some other class.
DIETARY.
113. Chinese and prisoners accustomed to a Chinese diet shall have two hot meals in the day, and such of them, as are not on Penal Diet, may congee as at present provided.
114. All Europeans and prisoners accustomed to a European Diet, shall have three meals a day, two of them being hot meals.
115. Prisoners condemned to death shall be allowed such a Diet as the Superintendent, subject to the approval of the Medical Officer, may direct. The issue of spirits or fermented liquors is strictly forbidden, unless in extreme cases, at once to be reported to His Excellency the Governor.
116. Every prisoner shall be allowed half an hour for the consumption of each meal, and shall not be set to work until the expiration of a quarter of an hour immediately succeeding such half hour.
117. The distribution of rations shall be personally superintended by an Officer of the Gaol. Any prisoner may request such Officer to weigh or measure any ration supplied to him or her.
118. Any prisoner untried, or confined for debt on civil process, and 1st class misdemeanants may, in any one day of 24 hours, receive from outside the Gaol at proper hours, a reasonable quantity of cooked provisions and malt liquors not exceeding 1 quart, or wine not exceeding 1 pint, and any linen, bedding, clothing, or other necessaries under such regulations as the Superintendent may lay down, who, on any infraction of such regulations, may suspend or withhold the privileges hereby granted altogether.
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The following shall be the prescribed allowance of food and necessaries for prisoners (except prisoners condemned to death) subject to such alterations as His Excellency the Governor may think fit to order. (See Appendix).
119. Prisoners confined for debt may be allowed to smoke at such times and under such restrictions as the Superintendent may direct.
PUNISHMENTS FOR BREACHES OF GAOL RULES.
120. The Superintendent shall have power to inflict the following punishments for breaches of Gaol rules, or for any offence mentioned in Rule 7, without the sanction of the Visiting Justices:~
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 1st 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 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 week, 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.