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BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC- PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE

Male and Female Prisoners to be se parated.

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LVIL Male and Female Prisoners shall always be so confined as to prevent the former from seeing, conversing, or holding any intercourse with the latter. The keys of all Cells, Wards, or Rooms, in which Female Priso 1ers shall be confined, shall remain constantly in the possession of the Matron; and the locks and keys of such Cells, Wards, or Rooms, shall be different from the locks and keys of the Cells, Wards, or Rooms, for Male Prisoners.

LVIII. The Prisoners, unless confined separately, shall be divided into the following Classes; and no Prisoner of one Class, (with the exception hereinafter men- tioned,) shall be confined, or associate with Prisoners of another Class.

1st, Felons under Sentence of Death.

2d, All other Felons.

3d, Misdemeanants and Persons confined for breach of the Revenue Laws. 4th, Prisoners committed for trial for Felony.

5th, Prisoners committed for trial for Misdemeanors, or detained for want of

Sureties.

6th, Prisoners remanded for Re-examination.

7th, Approvers.

8th, Debtors and Persons confined on Civil Process,

And every convicted Prisoner not a Felon shall be considered a Misdemeanant for the purposes of these Regulations.

LIX. Prisoners are to be cleanly in their persons and habits.

Spitting, except in the receptacles provided for that purpose,

Dropping or depositing offensive matter in the Rooms, Cells, or Passages, Suffering the Cells or Rooms to be defiled and the like,

are also forbidden.

Prisoners to clean LX.

their Ceis, &c.

Two Prisoners not

to sceafy one Cell

Restriction as

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Ecers of Guol not

to cite Granities.

Visits to Females,

Gander to Super- intend the distribution of liations, &c.

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Provisions of Per sons ecofined for Debt,

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All Prisoners of the 1st, 2d, and 3d Class shall be compellable to sweep clean and lime-wash the rooms in which they shall be confined, and to wash their persons and clothes as often as required by the Governor; and Prisoners of the other Classes to do the same, or cause it to be done.

LXI. Two Male Prisoners only shall never be lodged together; the number confined in one Cell or Room shall be one, thrce, or more. If there he only one Pri- soner of a particular Class confined in the Gaol, the Governor with the consent of such Prisoner, may assign such Prisoner to any other Class.

LXI. No Officer or Guard attached to the Gaol shall be allowed Rations, nor shall in any case be supplied with Rations by the Contractor who shall provide rations for the Prisoners, unless he be a Constable borne on the strength of the Police Force, and such Rations be those to which he is entitled as such Constable, and the Contractor for the Prisoners be also Contractor for the Police Force.

LXIII. No Officer of the Gaol shall receive any Payment or Gratuity of any kind from any Prisoner, Visitor, or other Person, under any pretence whatever unless he be expressly authorised by Act of Parliament, or by a Colonial Ordinance to receive such Payment or Gratuity.

LXIV. No Officer of the Gaol shall visit, by entry within her Cell, any Female Prisoner, unless in presence of the Matron.

LXV. The distribution of Rations and Clothing shall be personally superin- tended by an Officer of the Gaol. Any Prisoner may request the Officer distri- buting to weigh or measure in his presence, or allow him to weigh or measure, any Article of Food so distributed to him, and the Officer shall comply with the request, except it appear to the Governor of the Gaol that such request is vexatiously made, and such request and refusal shall be noted by the said Governor in his Journal.

LXVI. Chinese Prisoners and others accustomed to Chinese diet shall have at least two hot meals a day, and other Prisoners shall have three meals a day, two at least of them hot meals.

LXVIL Any Prisoner untried, or confined for Debt, or on Civil Process, may in any one day of Twenty-four Hours, receive from a friend or servant, at proper hours, a reasonable 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 necessaries, subject to strict search, and under such Regulations as the Go- vernor of the Gaol may think expedient; and he 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 said Governor may prohibit their further receipt, and place the Prisoner on Gaol allowance, record. ing the facts in his Journal-On any day that the Prisoner receives such Articles of food, he shall not receive the Gaol allowance. No fermented or spirituous Liquor shall, with these exceptions, be used by any Person whatever, unless by order of the Medical Officer, and in such quantity as he may prescribe.

LXVIII Every Prisoner shall be allowed Half-an-hour for the consumption of Time for Siente. each Meal, and shall not be set to work until the expiration of the quarter of an

hour immediately succeeding such half hour.

LXIX. Every convicted Prisoner, and every Prisoner confined for a breach of Description of La the Revenue Laws, or for want of Suretics, shall Labour to the utmost of his ability bour for Prisoners. within the Prison premises, and shall be set to that kind of Labour which from his natural abilities or previous habits shall appear most profitable; aud Felon shall also be compellable to labour in irons without the Gaol premises, unless every convicted in either case it be otherwise ordered in the Warrant of Commitment, or by the Governor of the Gaol. Every Prisoner untried, or confined for Debt or on Civil Process, shall, at his own request, and for so long only as he shall desire, be set to Work in the same manner as convicted Prisoners not Felons. And, after the close of the Month of December, in each Year, the said Governor shall make out an account of the profit and loss of Gaol Labor for the preceding Year, and such account shall be forwarded to the Colonial Secretary for the information of his said Excellency.

LXX. No Work shall be done in the Gaol on Sunday. LXXI. Every Prisoner condemned to Death shall be confined in some safe Frisoners under Sen- place within the Gaol, apart from all other Prisoners, and shall be allowed such a tence of Death. Dietary as the Sheriff with the approval of the Colonial Surgeon may direct, and no Person other than an Officer of the Gaol shall be allowed to visit him, unless by order in writing from the Sheriff.

Not to work i Benday,

Matron's Duties

LXXII. No dogs, (except for security), and no birds or other animals so as to create a nuisance or obstruction therein, shall be kept within the Prison premises.

LXXIIL The Matron shall reside in the Gaol, and be under the orders of the Governor of the Gaol, and conform to all the Rules laid down for the Warden so far as they are applicable to Female Prisoners. She shall be present at the distribution of food to Female Prisoners, and see every such Prisoner once in each 24 hours; she shall not absent herself from the Gaol for a night without the permission of the said Governor. She shall take care that no 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 Prisoner, and shall deliver to the said Governor all property found in possession of any such Prisoner. But in case of necessity, the Matron may delegate her duty to the wife of an Officer of the Gaol, or some other married woman.

LXXIV. The Chaplain shall read prayers with the Prisoners, and read or preach Chaplain's Duties. to them a discourse, and perform all other Offices of Religion as often as he may see fit, and shall visit each Prisoner in such Prisoner's Cell as often as such Chaplain may see fit. He shall attend at all reasonable times when a Prisoner or sick Person may require his services. He shall specially tender his assistance to all Prisoners under Sentence of Death, or charged with Offences punishable with Death.

LXXV. He shall inform the Governor of the Gaol whenever he may observe Chaplain's Reports.

the mind of a Prisoner likely to be injuriously affected by the treatment such Prisoner may be then receiving. He shall record in the Visiting Book all observations made by him in the performance of his duty, appearing to him important.

Duties of Medical

LXXVI. The Medical Officer shall visit the Gaol at least once in each day, when his other duties permit him, and shall enter in the Visiting Book all observations or Officer. occurrences in the performance of his duty that he may deem important, all alterations in the Diet of Prisoners not removed to the Infirmary, any wants of cleanliness, drainage, warmth, or ventilation, or any insufficiency or bad quality of bedding, clothing, provisions, or water.

LXXVIL He shall also keep a short daily record of the case of every sick His powere Prisoner, noting the name of the patient, nature of the diseasc, and treatment pursued. No Medicine shall be administered without his order. He shall regulate the hours of exercise for the sick Prisoners. He shall direct the purchase of such additional articles as he may deem necessary to the health of any Prisoner, recording in the Visiting Book the fact, and his reasons. He shall bring to the notice of the Chaplain every Prisoner whose state of mind shall appear to demand the Chaplain's care."

As to Gacharges of

LXXVIIL If the said Medical Officer considers to be unsafe the discharge from Gaol of any Prisoner suffering from acute disease, he shall delay such discharge as sick Prisoners. long as he may deem expedient, notwithstanding that the term of such Prisoner's confinement may have expired, unless the Prisoner himself desire to be discharged. No corporal Punishment exceeding Six Strokes shall be inflicted without the previous inspection of the Colonial Surgeon. Ile may appoint a substitute to attend the Gaol during his unavoidable absence.

LXXIX. The said Medical Officer shall deliver to the Colonial Secretary, as soon as possible after the close of the Month of December in each Year, a Report in writing, in which shall be detailed the number of sick among the Prisoners during the Year immediately preceding, the mortality, the sanitary condition of the Gaol,

His yearly reports.

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