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A well-conducted prisoner may be spent at Industrial Labour.
The corresponding period of hard unproductive labour in local prisons at home is 28 days only. Public opinion in England has declared against unproductive hard labour and if the prison accommodation admitted of its abolition here, I would recommend its abolition.
The elimination of prisoners with sentences of 14 days and under from hard labour has been abolished; such exemption is not in accordance with the practice at home and it is difficult to understand why it was introduced here. The distinction between first offenders and old offenders is in accordance with existing practice.
Rules 256, 257, and 273 are new. In Rule 256, provision is made for the progressive stage system.
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Rules 274 and 275 take the place of the old Rules 240, 253, and 338. The latter portion of Rule 274 is new in order to provide privileges for the progressive stage system.
Rule 277, Sec. 2, takes the place of old Rule 347; the modifications being made in the interests of the progressive stage system.
Rules 284-296 take the place of the existing Rules 272...