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Officer attached to the department of that Officer; thD Subordinate shall be present at the Inspection at 8 A.M. and furnish the Superintendent with a requisition for men for the several works in progress, which shall be implicitly carried out, but it is desirable that there should not be more than five labor detachments.
13. Arrangements for Convicts' labor and mode of enforcing the same and effecting security.
The detachments of Convicts for labor shall be told off, so that each detachment be composed of Convicts having consecutive numbers. A Turnkey or European Constable and a proportionate number of Indian Constables shall be sent in charge of each detachment of Convicts, and mat huts of a readily moveable construction shall be erected near the places of labor for the protection of the Turnkeys and Police. The European Constable or Turnkey in charge of each Labor detachment shall have a memorandum of the numbers of the Convicts forming the detachment. Once every hour
a signal shall be given from the Convict Hulk by hoisting yellow flag, upon which the said European Constable or Turnkey in charge shall assemble his particular detachment, (the Convicts falling into line in numerical order,) and ascertain that it is correct. The Convicts on board the Convict Hulk shall "fall in" at the same hourly signal, and the sick and Hospital attendants ascertained to be present
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of this rule is that in addition to the ge- neral Inspections, once in each hour every Convict shall be under observation and ascertained to be present.
14. Duties on board Convict Hulk during the day. When the whole of the Convicts for labor on shore have been conducted ashore, the Warden or Head Turnkey shall proceed to examine the Convict's cells, and ascertain
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that Convict and every article belonging to the Con- victs have been removed, after which the Convicts set apart
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for the purpose shall cleanse the lower and main decks: this must be completed by 10 A.M. at which time the Superin- tendent of the Hulk, after examination of the lower and main decks, shall see that the upper deck grating is locked, the key thereof being deposited in his Office, and the said grating shall not be unlocked (excepting for special cause) until the time of locking up.
A certain number of Convicts shall be employed on board the Convict Hulk as cooks for the Gaol Staff and Police, but the number of these, and of those employed in cleaning the Hulk shall be limited so that idleness on board is prevented. Those employed as cooks shall be called upon to cleanse their respective galleys and cooking utensils, and the quarters of those for whom they cook.
The following shall be inviolable rules: firstly, no Convict with the exception of the two or three employed as cooks for the Superintendent and Officers aft, shall go aft of the barricade in the waist of the vessel, and secondly all the Convicts excepting those in Hospital shall be locked up in their cells at or before 6 P.M.
15. Reception of Rations from the Contractor. The Superintendent of the Halk shall personally satisfy himself that the Rations are delivered in proper quantity and quality.
The Clerk, Interpreter and Warden shall invariably be present and receive the Rations, taking account of weight, &c.
16. Issue of Rations to the Convicts. The issue of Rations shall be conducted so that each Convict shall receive his provisions hot and in a cleanly and comfortable manner. "Each Convict shall have supplied to him a tin dish for rice, a tin plate for fish or vegetable and a tin pint pot for tea. The manner of issuing the Rations shall be as follows: the Convicts having been
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