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38. Provision shall be made by the Superintendent for the employ- ment of all convicted criminal prisoners not sentenced to hard labour. The Governor in Council shall make rules as to the amount and nature of such employment, tant no prisoner not sentenced to hard labour shall be punished for neglect of work, excepting by such alteration in the scale of diet as may be established by the rules of the prison in the case of neglect of work by such prisonera.
30. Debtors shall have the means of daily taking exerciso in the open air.
40. Criminal prisoners, if employed at work in their own cells, shall be permitted to take such exercise in the open air as the Surgeon may deem necessary for their health.
41. The names of the prisoners who desire to see the Surgeon, or appear out of health, shall be reported by the officer attending them to the Superintendent, and by him without delay to the Surgeon.
42. All directions given by the Burgeon in relation to any prisoner with the exception of orders for the supply of medicines or directions in relation to such matters as are carried into effect by the Surgeon himself or under his Superintendence, shall be entered day by day in his journal, which shall have a separate columu in which entries are to be made by the Superintendent, stating in respect of each direction the fact of its having been or not having been complied with, accompanied by such observations, if any, as the Superintendent nay think fit to make, and the date of the entry.
43. In every prison an infirmary or proper place for the reception of sick prisoners shall be provided.
44. Due provision shall be made for the admission, at proper times and under proper restrictions, of persons with whom prisoners before trial may desire to communicate, care being taken that, so far as is consistent with the interests of justice, such prisoners shall see their legal advisers alone.
45. The Superintendent may demoud the name and address of any visitor to a prisoner; and when he has any ground for suspicion, may search or cause to be searched male visitors, and may direct the Matron or some other female officer to search female visitors, such search not to be in the presence of any prisoner or of another visitor; and in case of any visitor refusing to be searched, the Superintendent may deny him or her admission; the grounds of such proceeding, with the particulars thereof, to be entered in his journal.
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46. No punishments or privations of any kind shall be awarded, except by the Superintendent, or by a Visiting Justice.
47. The Superintendent shall have power to hear complaints res-
pecting any of the offences following; that is to say,
1. Disobedience of the regulations of the prison by any prisoner;
2. Common assault by one prisoner on another,
3. Profane cursing and swearing by any prisoner;
1. Indecent behaviour by any prisoner;
5. Insalting or threatening language by any prisoner to any
officer or prisoner;
6. Idleness or negligence at work by any convicted criminal
prisoner;
7. Wilful misinanagernent of work by any convicted criminal
prisoner;
all the above acts are declared to be offences against prison dis cipline; and it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to examine any person touching such offences, and to determine thereupon, and to punish such offences by ordering any offender, for any time not exceeding twenty-four hours, to close confinement, to be kept there upon bread and water. And the Superintendent shall enter in a separate book called the punishment book a statement of the nature of any offence that he bas punished in pursuance of this regulation, with the addition of the name of the offender, the date of the offence, and the amount of punishment inflicted.
48. If any criminal prisoner is guilty of repeated offences against prison discipline, or is guilty of any offence against prison discipline which the Superintendent is not by this Act empowered to punish, the Superintendent shall report the sono to the Visiting Justices, and any two of such Visiting Justices shall have power to inquire upon oath and to determine concerning any matter so reported to them, and to order the offender to be punished by confinement in a parish- ment cell for any term not exceeding fourteen days or in the case of prisoners convicted of felony or sentenced to hard labour, by personal correction,
40. No prisoner shall be put in irous or under mechanical res- traint by the Superintendent of say prisou, except in case of urgent necessity; and the particulare, of every auch case shall be forthwith entered in the Superintendents journal, and notice forthwith given thereof to one of the Visiting Justices; and no prisoner shall be kept in irons or under mechanical restraint for more than twenty-four hours without an order in writing from a Visiting Justice, specifying the cause thereof, and the time during which The prisoner is to be kept in irons or under mechanical restraint, which order shall bo preserved by the Superintendent as his warrant.
50. All corporal punishments within the prison shall be attended by the Superintendent and the Surgeon. The Surgeon shall give such orders for preventing injury to health as he may deem necessary, and it shall be the duty of the Superintendent to carry them into effect, and the Superintendent shall enter in the punishment book the hour at which the punishment is inflicted, the number of strokes, and the orders which the Surgeon may have given on the occasion.
61 Every prisoner under warrant or order for execution shall, immediately on his arrival in the prison after sentence, be searched by or by the orders of the Superintendent, and all articles shall be taken from him which the Superintendent deems dangerous or inox, pedient to leave in his possession. He shall be confined in a cell apart from all other prisoners, and shall be placed by day and by night under the constant charge of an officer. He shall be allowed such a dietary and amount of exercise as the Superintendent may direct. The Chaplain shall have free access to every such prisoner, unless the prisoner be of a religious perszation differing from that of the Established Church, and be visited by a minister of such persuasion, in which case the minister of such persuasion shall have free access to him. With the above exceptions, no person, not being a Visiting Justice or an officer of the prison, shall have access to the prisoner except in pursuance of an order from a Visiting Justice,
During the preparation for an execution, and the time of the execution, no person shall enter the prison who is not legally en- titled to do so, auless in pursuance of an order in writing from the Superintendent.
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"If a Prisoner be guilty of any of the above offences or of a breach of Gaol Regulations or Discipline for the due punishment of which the Superintendent of any Gaol may deem the powers vested in him insufficient, it shall be lawful for such Superintendent in conjunc- tion with a Visiting Justice after inquiry to punish such prisoner by close or solitary confinement on bread and water or rice and water for sot exceeding fourteen days, or if the prisoner be convicted of felony or sentenced to hard laboar by personal correction not exceed ing thirty-six strokes.
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