become incorrect.

3. As rule

apply

229

does not

to cases under rule

232. Subsec. I and render

that to

rules

Rule 276. Reduced penal diet can be given continuously for 14 days). N In this country three days is the limit of continuous Bread and Water diet. and the fortnight I should

be glad to

be glad to know Whether

the Colonial Surgeon considers

that very

low diet can

be given for fourteen days consecutively without

injurious to health.

4. Rules 210-217 appear

to be new, and I am not

274

averse to sanctioning them without

further explanation. Where

there are proper prison buildings and proper prison discipline and strict organization, the wearing of chains is the exception and not the rule,

Whereas these Rules

contemplate

their being used indiscriminately

inside as well as outside the prison.

5. No necessity would be felt for any

such measures

if the building of a prison had not been postponed from year to year in spite of repeated instructions from my predecessors and myself,

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