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Every instance of misconduct of a Police Constable shal be reported to the Captain Superintendent of Police whose province it is to enquire into and impose punishment.

No Constable (of whatever rank) of the detachment shall absent himself from the Convict Establishment without the sanction of the Captain Superintendent first being obtained, application for which shall be forwarded by the Sergeant in charge after he has made the same known to the Superin- tendent of the Hulk on the Morning State (hereinafter mentioned.)

The outline of the duties of the Police detachment will

be as follows: a party of Police composed of 1 European Sergeant or Acting Sergeant, 3 European Constables, I Indian Sergeant or Acting Sergeant and 10 Indian Consta bles, making a total of Fifteen men, shall parade for duty at the time of opening Gaol and shall form the Convict Guard on shore from that time until noon, when it shall be relieved by a party of exactly the same numbers which shall form the Convict Guard and conduct the Convicts back to the Hulk at the time of locking up.

There shall be during the day, from opening Gaol until locking up, two Indian Constables on sentry at the Convict Hulk and one Indian sentry at the Hospital, and during the night, viz: from locking up until opening Gaol, one European Constable and three Indian Constables on sentry at the Convict Hulk and one Indian Constable on sentry at the Hospital.

These sentries, day and night, shall be relieved every two hours and a Sergeant or Acting Sergeant (either European or Indian) shall be present at, and mount each relief.

The Convict Guard duty and night sentry shall be eight hours in twenty-four for every European Constable, and including the sentries by day ten hours in twenty-four for every Indian Constable. It will be an important part of the duty of the European Sergeant in charge, assisted by

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the Indian Sergeant, to prepare a daily roster of duties, by which every Constable of the detachment can see when and what duty he has to perform and by which also shall be regulated a correct proportion of day and night duty.

It will be observed by the European Sergeant in charge that by the above arrangment of duties four Indian Cons tables have not been appropriated. These four Constables form a Reserve from which all casualties and deficiencies, such as sick and absentees, are to be taken, it being ex- pected that such casualties and deficiencies will at no time exceed four, and this must be borne in mind with regard to applications for leave of absence.

At the daily inspection made at 8 AM by the Superin- tendent of the Hulk, the whole of the Police detachment, both on and off duty, shall parade in full uniform under arms and the Sergeant in charge shall inspect and thereby satisfy himself as to the state of efficiency of the detach- ment on all points, but especially noting arms and ammu- nition; from this inspection a Morning State shall be

pre- pared in duplicate by the Sergeant, one copy to be furnished to the Superintendent of the Hulk, and the other forwarded to the Captain Superintendent of Police at the earliest opportunity (see form of Morning State attached marked A.)

4. Convicts to be numbered, ge.

It is an important point, almost the pivot, of Convict discipline that each Convict shall have and be known by a fixed number, which shall be given to him and borne upon the Gaol records upon his admission, and be unalterable until his expiration of sentence, death, or departure, from whatever cause. These numbers will range from "1" to the highest number of the complement at any period in Gaol, thus upon a number becoming vacant it will be given to the next incomer. This fixed number, painted upon an oval piece of cloth, shall be borne by the Convict affixed to the left side of his jacket, the number will also be mark-

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