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Penalty on Persona VI. From and after the passing of this Ordinance no Person shall land upon the authorized for landing said Island called Stone Cutters' Island except a Justice of Peace, an Officer of Police approaching or such Persons as shall be duly authorized by an order signed by the Colonial Secretary; Stone Cutters Island, and no Vessel shall without sufficient reason approach to within the distance of One hundred yards from the said Island except Police Boats, Commissariat Boats, Boats belonging to Her Majesty's Ships of War, or Boats carrying Justices of the Peace or persons employed in the service of this Government, or persons duly authorized as above; and any Person who, contrary to this Ordinance, shall land on the said Island or shall being in any Vessel wilfully approach within the said distance from the said Island shall incur a penalty of not exceeding Five hundred Dollars.
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VII. Each Gaol shall be under the care and control of an Officer to be styled the each Gaol to be ap. Superintendent of such Gaol, who shall be assisted by a Staff to be appointed from time to time by His Excellency the Governor, and such portion of any Gaol as shall be set apart for the confinement of Debtors shall be further subject to the supervision and authority of the Sheriff of the Colony; and it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a Superintendent General of Prisons, if he shall think fit.
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altered as after pro- vided for.
VIII. All Persons within the said Gaols and Debtors' Wards respectively already constituted or hereafter to be constituted shall be subject to such general and special Rules and Regulations and to such penalties and punishments respectively as are hereinafter authorized or as shall be laid down and imposed by Rules and Regu- lations to be passed and authorized in manner hereinafter provided.
IX. The Rules now in use for the Regulation of the Gaol of Victoria shall continue use to continue unta in force for the Government of all Gauls and Debtors' Wards in this Colony until the same shall be modified as hereinafter provided, and a copy of the said Rules shall be continually displayed within the said Gaols and Debtors Wards respectively in some conspicuous place where they may be with facility seen and read by the Inmates of the said Gaols and Debtors' Wards, and a Copy shall also be appended to the Justices' Visit- ing Book in every Gaol.
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Alteration of Rules X. Such Regulations shall be from time to time revised or added to as may be found necessary, and for this purpose it shall be competent for His Excellency the Governor in Executive Council to inake such revisions or additions, or for any number of Justices of the Peace, not less than three, of whom a Police Magistrate shall be one to meet, and frame such revisions or additions as may be considered expedient; provided that such nimended Regulations shall not have effect until they shall have been approved by His Excellency the Governor, and it shall the duty of the Police Limitation of Pe Magistrate to forward such amended Regulations to the Colonial Secretary. Provided nalties in Rules, xe. also that no greater penalties shall be imposed for any breach of any Prison Rule than
to the extent hereby provided.
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XI. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent of any Gaol to punish by Imprison- nish refractory Pri- ment in a Solitary Cell for not exceeding Three Days on Bread and Water or Rice and Water, or, if the Prisoner be under conviction of Felony, to punish by moderate corporal punishment not exceeding Twelve Strokes of a Rattan, any Prisoner whom he
may find after due investigation to have been guilty of any of the following offences or of any breach of Prison Regulation or Discipline:
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Assault and Battery.
Profane Cursing or Swearing or using indecent, violent or insulting Language. Indecent, irreverent, or disorderly behaviour.
Idleness or Negligence in Work or wilful Damage to or mismanagement of it. Wilful damage to any Cell, Ward or Room, or to any Gaol Furniture or Property whatsoever.
XII. If a Prisoner be guilty of any of the above Offences or of a breach of Gaol
the Peace to panish Regulations or Discipline for the due punishment of which the Superintendent of any when those of Super- Gaol may deem the powers vested in him insufficient, it shall be lawful for such Super
intendent in conjunction with any Justice of the Peace for the said Colony after in- quiry to punish such Prisoner by close or Solitary Confinement on Bread and Water or Kice and Water for not exceeding Fourteen Days, or, if the Prisoner be under con- viction for Felony or have within Three Months next previous been guilty of a similar Offence, by personal correction not exceeding Thirty-six Strokes.
Bogging, Twelve hours
XIII. No corporal punishment shall be inflicted without the written Certificate of, If punishment be the Medical Officer that the Prisoner can receive the punishment without injury to his to expire before its in- health; and no such punishment shall be inflicted until after the expiration of Twelve fiction and exceptions Hours after the Prisoner shall have been sentenced thereto under the two Sections next to auch punishment, 130 preceding, and no Corporal Punishment shall be inflicted on any Prisoner confined for debt or on first class misdemeanants.
XIV. If any Person shall introduce into any Prison or wilfully convey in any Penalty e p manner to or within the reach of any Prisoner, whether within or without the Gaol Pers
plying Articles Walls, any intoxicating Drink, Tobacco, Opium, Letter or other articles not allowed by the Rules of such Prison, he shall pay a penalty not exceeding Twenty-five Dollars, and such articles shall be confiscated.
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XV. When any Magistrate or Court shall sentence a Prisoner to hard labour, the, What labour Inci- same shall mean hard labour (in chains if necessary) within or without the Prison Walls tences and what Priv in such mode as the Superintendent of such Gaol shall with the sanction of His Excellency one to be free from the Governor appoint, and if a Prisoner be sentenced to hard labour within the Prison, imposed labour. the same shall mean similar labour imposed in a similar manner within or without the Prison Walls, and if a Prisoner be sentenced to Imprisonment, the same shall mean Imprisonment with labour of such light description within the Prison Walls as may be appointed by the Superintendent under the sanction of His Excellency the Governor; but Prisoners charged with Crime or Offence confined for want of Sureties or to take their trial shall not be under any obligation to labour beyond such labour as may reasonably proper for the purpose of preparing their own food and keeping their Persons and Dress in a proper state, and keeping their Cells clean. If any Prisoners for Debt or on Civil process or under committal for trial shall request to be employed in labour, the Superintendent of the Gaol may respectively employ them in such Work as may seem to him suitable.
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XVI. All penalties imposed hereby or by any Rules and Regulations to be in Made of recovering force under this Ordinance shall be sued for and recovered under Ordinance No. 10 of penalties. 1844.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 26th Day of May, 1863. L. D'ALMADA ɛ CASTRO,
Clerk of Councils,
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