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Provisions of Per
Any Prisoner untried or confined for Debt, or on Civil Process, may in any one soas cofined for day of Twenty-four Hours, receive from a friend or servant, at proper hours u vens Debt, dr.
sonable quantity of cooked provisions, and not exceeding one quart of malt liquor, or at his option one pint of wine, and any linen, bedding, clothing, or other neces- saries, subject to strict search, and under suela Regulations as the Sheriff may think expedient, and the Gnoler may at the request of the Prisoner pay for such Articles out of any Money he may have belonging to the Prisoner; but if any part of such Articles be transferred to another Prisoner, the Gauler may prohibit their further receipt, and place the Prisoner on Gaol allowance, pending the orders of the Sheriff, recording the facts in his Journal.—On any day that the Prisoner receive such Ar- ticles of food, he shall not receive the Gaol allowance. No fermented or spirituous Liquor shall with these exceptions be used by any Person whatever, unics by under of the Medical Officer, and in such quautity as be suy prescribe.
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Every Prisoner shall be allowed half an hour for the consumption of each Meal, and shall not be set to work until the expiration of the quarter of sa hour immediately succeeding such half hour.
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Every convicted Prisoner, and every Prisoner confined for a breach of the ReveRING Labour for Pri- Laws, or for want of Sureties shall Labour to the utmost of his ability within the Prison premises, and slwil be set to that kind of Labour which from his natural abili. ties or previous habits shall appear must profitable, and every Convicted Felon shall also be compellable to Labour in irons without the Gaol premiser, unkose in either ense it be otherwise urdered in the Warrant of Commitment or by the Sheriff. Every Prisoner untried or confined for Debt or on Civil Process, shali, at kis own request, and for so lung only as he shall desire, be set to Work in the same manner as Con- victed Prisoners not Felons. And after the close of the Month of December, in exch Year, the Gauler shall furnish the Sheriff with sach particulars as shall enable the Sheriff to make out un secount of the profit and loss of Gaol for the preceding Year. and soch account shall be forwarded to the Colonial Secretary for the information of the Governor.
Xel te werk on Sunday.
Prisoners ander
No Work shall be done in the Gaul on Sunday, and no Prisoner being a Jew shall Le compelled to Labour on his Sabbath.
Every Prisoner condemned to Death shall be confined in some rafe place within Bentence of Death, the Gaol, ajurt from all other Prisoners, and shall be allowed such a dietary as the Sheriff with the approval of the Colonid Surgeon may direct, and no Person other than an Officer of the Guol shall be allowed to visit him, unless order in writing from the Sheriff.
Estres's Duties.
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No dogs, (except for security), nor any poultry, pigeons, rabbits or other animals shall be kept within the Prison premises.
The Matron shall reside in the Gaol and be under the urders of the Gaoler, and conform to all the rules laid down for the Gauler, so far as they are applicable to Female Prisoners. She shall be present at the distribution of food to Female Pri suners and see every such Prisoner once in each 24 hours; she shall not abrest berself from the Gool for a night without the permission of the Sheriff. She shall take care that on Male Officer of the Prison unaccompanied by herself, enter a Cell or Room occupied by a Female Prisoner; she shall search every Female Prisoner on admission, and as often as necessary, but not in presence of any Male Person or any other Pris sumer, aud shall deliver to the Gaoler sil property found in possession of any such Prisoner. But in case of urcenity, the Matron may delegate her duty to the wife of an Officer of the Gaol, of some other married woman.
The Chaplain shall read pruyere with the Prisoners, and read or preach to them a discourse, and perform all other Offices of religion av often as he may sen fit, and aud shall visit each Prisoner, in such Prisoner's Cell u often as he may see fit. He shall attend at all reasonable times when a Prisoner or sick Person may require his services. Ile shall specially tender bis assistance to all Prisoners under Sentrace of Death, ur charged with Offences punishable with Death.
He shall inform the Gaoler and if necessary the Sheriff, whenever he may obserra the mind of a Prisoner likely to be injuriously affected by the treatment such Priser may be then receiving. He stall record in the Visiting Book all observations made Ly him in the performance of his duty, appearing to kim important.
The Medical Officer shall rísit the Guol at least once în cach daș, when his other duties permit him, and enter in the Visiting Book all observations or occurrences in the performance of his duty that he may deem important, all alterations in the Diet of Prisoners not removed to the Infirmary, say want of cleanliness, drainage, warmth or ventilation, or say insufficiency or bad quality of the bedding, clothing, provisions
or water.
He shall also keep a short daily record of the case of every sick Prisoner, noting the name of the patient, nature of the disease, and treatment puriusd. No Medicias shall be administered without his order. He shall regulate the hours of ezzrcise for the sick Prisoners. He shall direct the parchate of such additional articles no he may deem necessary to the health of any Prisoner, recording in the Viriting Book the fact, and his seasons. He shall bring to the notice of the Chaplain every Prisoner whona state of mind shall appear to demand the Chaplain's cure."
If he considers to be unsafe the discharge from Gaol of any Prisoner suffering from scute discase, he shall delay such discharge as long as he may deem expedient, not- withstanding that the term of such Prisoner's confinement have expired, unicas the
Prisoner himself desire to be discharged. No corporal Punishment exceeding six strokes shall be inflicted without the previous inspection of the Colonial Surgeon. He may appoint a substitute to attend the Oxol during his musvoidable absence.
He shall deliver to the Colonial Secretary, as soon as possible after the clure of the Month of December in each. Year, a repent in writing in which shall be detailed the number of sick among the Prisoners during the Year immediately preceding, the Mortality, the annatory condition of the Gaol, what disen-en have been most preva- leut, whether any part of the sickness may be reasonably attributed to defect in the construction, er management of the Gnol, what sambory precautions he may decr it necessary to add to those then in force, and such other inatters na tu him may seerA
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Every Non-resident Officer of the Gaol, excepting the Colonial Surgeon, every Visiting Justice, and every Justice of the Pence on meh verasion of his visiting the God for the purposes of these Regulations, shall write his name, and the date of the visit in the Gaol Visitation Book.
The following is the prescribed allowance of food and necessities for Prisoners :---
1. For Chinese and Persons accustomed to Chinew Diet.
Rice,
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Beef or Park.... Bread.... Vegetables,
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a Mouth. Water as much as needed, or as much as can be used without waste, not exceeding the prescribed allowance, but this dietary may be altered from time to time by the Colonial Eurgeon with the exuction of the GoverKIN.
S. G. BONHAM.
Victoria, Hongkong, 16th August, 1853.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 20th Day of September, 1833.
L. D'ALMADA x CAFT20,
Clerk of Councils.
Scale of Diet for Prisoner.
Colonial Scentury
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