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13. One Officer is to be detailed each morning to search the Prison Yards before the prisoners are admitted into them, to see that no Tobacco or other prohibited articles are lying about.
A Return must be made each morning that such duty has been performed.
14. Officers in charge of Yards are to examine all newly admitted prisoners who are brought into their Yards after passing the Surgeon, to see that they have their Caps and Handkerchiefs, chopsticks and chopstick bags, and that the numbers correspond with that on the Jacket. The Officer in charge of the Corridors will see the same examination carried out in case of newly admitted prisoners sent up to Corridors.
15. The prisoners in Separate Confinement, and their cells, must be thoroughly searched every evening before they are locked up, and all articles likely to assist in attempts at suicide, and other prohibited articles, must be carefully removed from the cells.
Not less than four Officers with lanterns should be told off for this duty.
16. The Officers in charge of prisoners must each morning enquire what prisoners wish to see the Superintendent, the Colonial Surgeon, or the Chaplain.
Those who wish to see the Superintendent inust be brought down immediately after the reports are beard.
17. Prisoners who are on report must on no account be brought down to the Office or taken up into the Gaol, after the hearing of the case, by the Officer making the report.
18. The Iron night-soil buckets are not to be put oue inside the other, as by so doing the partitions get broken. To preserve these buckets from rust, they must be kept frequently tarred.
19. A Record is to be kept of every piece of clothing washed in the Gaol: the various items of washing for the Gaol, Officers, and Civil Hospital are to be kept separate.
20. The Turnkey in charge of the Carpenters' Yard must keep a record of the number of prisoners employed each day in the Tailors' Shop and Work Yard, and the number of hours they are employed at Tailoring, Carpentering, Coir-mat and Matting making, Struw-mat making, and the other descriptions of work.
21. The Officers when on duty are on no account to sit down or lounge about during their term of duty; but must be alert and watchful, and either stand still or walk about, keeping their faces towards the prisoners.
22. Officers are on no account to hold conversations with prisoners. When they are obliged to speak to a prisoner on a matter of Gaol Discipline, they must do so in as few words as possible.
23. As several keys have been broken and locks rendered useless in consequence of the cardless- ness of the Officers in putting the wrong keys into the locks, in future the replacement of the key and the repairs of the locks will have to be paid for by the Officer damaging the same.
24. A man formerly employed as a Turnkey in this Gaol having contracted a considerable debt with the Contractor, officials employed in this Departinent are informed that in future serious notice will be taken of such irregularity, and the practice of borrowing comparatively large sums from the Contractor or any one else must be discontinued.
25. Gaol Officers committing assaults on prisoners will be dismissed the service.
26. NUMBERING OF CHINESE PRISONERS :----
a. Prisoners sentenced to Penal Servitude are numbered from 1 to 250.
b. Prisoners sentenced to Hard Labour for any period over 6 months are numbered from
251 to 350.
e. Prisoners sentenced to 6 months are numbered from 351 to 500.
d. Prisoners sentenced to over 14 days and under 6 months are numbered from 501.
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27. Prisoners who are excused from taak work are not to remain in the Yards with the other pronera, but are to be kept locked up in the Corridors until meal time.
28. Prisoners who have received Corporal Punishment are not to be required to pick their quantum of oakum until they are passed as fit for work by the Colonial Surgeon.
29. Prisoners sentenced to short terms of imprisonment (14 days and under) are, as far as space will allow, to be kept locked up separately. This Rule is specially to apply to old offenders.
30. For the future all prisoners, when undergoing Solitary Confinement, are to be visited every hour by the Officers on duty in the Corridors.
31. Until further orders, prisoners sentenced to Solitary Confinement will go into Cells at 6 A.M. the following day, and will also, on the expiration of their punishment, be released at the same hour, so as to admit of getting full diet before going to Ilard Labour.
32. Prisoners sentenced to Solitary or Separate Confinement must be searched by the Officer locking them up, and also at least once in the day by the Turnkey in charge of the Ward.
33. Prisoners sentenced to have periods of Solitary Confinement on Rice and Water, or Bread and Water, for two or more separate offences, are to have one day out on full diet between each period of punishment.
34. Prisoners sentenced by way of punishment to extra Shot drill or Stone carrying are not to be required to do more than one hour of such punishment in any one day, and that only in half-hour spells.
35. During the summer months all prisoners, except those on the sick list, are to bathe afternoon before they have their supper.
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36. Prisoners for release must be reported to the Superintendent if they do not, before leaving the Gaol, return in good condition all the Gaol kit supplied to them (fair wear and tear excepted).
37. Pieces of paper are not to be put into the receptacles for dry earth.
38. Dry earth is to be supplied to and used in the Female Prison.
39. That part of the "Regulations for the Government of the Gaol" headed "Prisonera," from para. 102 to para. 106, shall be read and explained to the Prisoners every Saturday.