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Questions.
XIII. What were the number and nature of the punishments inflicted for offences committed by pri- Boners undergoing imprisonment?
XIV. Is there or are there, any Chaplain or Cliap- luins of nay and whint religions persuasions?
XV. Are religious services regularly, or otherwise, performed for the benefit of the prisoners of any, and if any, what religious persuasion?
XVI. Are Roman Catholic Priests and Dissenting Ministers allowed free access to prisoners of their own persuasion, and are they apprised, when prisoners of their respective persuasions euter the Prison?
XVII. What provision is made for the education of prisoners?
XVIII. On what conditions are remissions of impri- sonment granted!
Answers.
The number of prisoners reported for prison offences during the year 1877 was 2,465; out of this number 34 were discharged, 436 cautioned, and 1,995 punished in the manner detailed below, viz.:
243 by solitary confinement only,
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on bread & water,periods.
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on rice & water,
2 were ordered bread and water 8 meals.
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rice and water 3 meal.
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ordered rice and water 2 meals. their supper meal stopped.
pork ration stopped for a time. congee meal stopped.
139 were placed in separate confinement, mostly short
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5 punished with heavy shot.
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5 sent to penal labour from employment.
1 deprived of use of library books.
periods.
1 (hor) was awarded 7 days' extra imprisonment by Police Magistrate for destroying prison property.
15 received corporal punishment.
1,995
The Colonial Chaplain held a service once a week, and visited the sick when required. In addition to the service held by the Colonial Chaplain, a student li- censed by the Bishop of Victoria, held a service every Sunday.
Since the absence on leave of the Revd. R. II. Kidd, the Revd. E. Davis, Acting Colonial Chaplain, has generally officiated twice a week. (viz. : Thursday and Sunday) regularly.
The Reverend Mr. Lamont, Minister of the Union Church, generally holds a service on Sundays for the Presbyterian and other Dissenting prisoners; when he is unable to attend, the service is performed by a Clergyman of the London Missionary Society.-The Prison is also visited by Roman Catholic Priests, who hold services for both European and Chinese prisoners of that persuasion.
All Dissenting Ministers are allowed free access to the Prison at such hours ns do not interfere with the
discipline of the Prison. Intimation is immediately sent to any Minister or Priest, if at any time a prisoner expresses a desire to see him.
None: but all are supplied with religious and other useful hooks.
Remissions of sentences should have been granted under a scale that came into force in August, 1865, as approved by the Secretary of State, viz.
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