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Such other Officers as his said Excellency may from time to time appoint, and such Constables of the Police Force as may from time to time be appointed to do duy at the Gaol. And the Colonial Chaplain shall be the Chaplain, and the Colonial Sur- geon the Medical Officer, of the Gaol of Hongkong.

XL No Officer of the Gao! shall be Under-Sheriff or Bailiff, or concerned in any other occupation, or in any trade; and no such Officer, and no Person in trust for him, shall sell, let, or derive any benefit from the sale or letting, of any Article to any Prisoner, or from any dealing whatsoever with such Prisoner. No such Officer shall let for hire to any Person whatever, any room or portion of the residence allotted to him in or near the Gaol, or any room or ground belonging to the Gaol. No such Officer shall directly or indirectly have any interest in any Contract or Agreement for the supply of the Gaol, or use for himself or his family any Oil Rations, Food, or other Article whatever supplied for the use of the Gaol, or by or on behalf of any Contractor for the supply of the Gaol.

XII. Under the direction of the Governor of the Gaol shall be kept in a clean and intelligible manner the following Books, and he shall be responsible that they be safely preserved, and that they be not subjected to any alteration or erasure :—

1. Fine and Fee Book.

2. Order Book.

3. Journal

4. Gaol Register.

5. Work Book.

6. Prisoner's Property Book.

7. Gaol Faraiture and Stores Book.

8. Provision Book

9. General Daily Account Book.

XIIL He shall also keep under his charge the Governor's Book, and the Gaol Visitation Book.

XIV. All these Books shall be open to inspection by any Justice of the Peace visiting the Gaol, and calling for the same.

XV. The said Governor shall cause to be entered in the Fine and Fee Book, all Fees taken from time to time by hún or any other Officer of the Gaol, specifying the Authority under which zach Fee was taken, and all Fines paid by any Prisoner confined in default of payment of such Fine.

XVI. With the approbation of the Governor of the Gaol, the Warden shall appoint an Officer of the Gaol to act as Deputy Warden whenever he shall be an- avoidably absent, and during such absence the Deputy shall have all the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the Warden. Before leaving the Gaol the Warden shall personally give over charge to his Deputy.

XVII. The Warlen shall be supplied with a Copy of these Regulations. XVIIL The Warden shall consider the Governor of the Gaol bis immediate superior. and shall obey all his orders.

XIX. The Governor of the Gaol shall enforce on all his Subordinates the due execution of their several duties, not permitting them to have any other employment. He shall reside in the house allotted to him for a residence, and shall record all absences at night, and the cause of them, in his Journal. He shall see that no Person other than an Officer of the Gaol, in the discharge of duty as such, without his permission, speak to or hold any intercourse or communication with a Prisoner, and that no Person sleep in the Gaol, other than a Prisoner, an Officer of the Gaol, or one of such Officer's Servants or family.

XX. The said Governor shall see that no one attached to the Gaol visit the Female Prisoners except in company with the Matron.

XXL He shall himself, and shall see that every Officer of the Gaol do in like manner, exercise his Authority with firmness, humanity, and good temper; on no account striking any Prisoner without due authority.

XXII. The said Governor shall enter in the Order Book all orders relating to may suspend his Sub the Gaol. Ile may suspend any resident Officer of the Gaol disobeying his orders, the therwise misconducting himself, recording the particulars and reasons in his Journal, and reporting the same without delay to his said Excellency.

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XXIII. The Governor of the Gaol shall not enforce the attendance of any Prisoner at Divine Service whose religious persuasion shall not accord with such

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ordinary indulgence to any Prisoner; any omission to wash the Prisoners; or clean or whit, wash the Gaol at the appointed times; every case in which he may have placed in Irons a Prisoner, not a Felon, and the causes thereof; and the several other matters enjoined by these Regulations.

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XXV. The said Governor shall personally inspect every Ward, Cell, Yard, Governor of Gael Division, or Part of the Gaol, and see every Prisoner at least once in each 24 hours, the Prison, key anot to inspect sach part of and in default shall record the omission and the cause thereof in his Journal; and a day at least, he shall at least once a Week at an uncertain bour of the night go through the Gaol, and visit every Person on guard over the same, inaking an accurate record in his Journal of such visit, the hour thereof, and the state of the Gaol and the Guards.

XXVI. The said Governor shall record in his Journal every complaint made to Prisoners'complaints. him by any Prisoner.

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XXVII. The said Governor shall take every precaution to prevent Fire, or the Precautiona escape of Prisoners, and shall cause all the Wards, Cells, Bolts, Bars and Locks of the Gaol, and the Irons of the Prisoners, to be thoroughly examined daily; and shall fully explain the duty required of every Officer of the Gaol in case of Fire, or of the attempt of a Prisoner, or of any confederated attempt on the part of any number of Prisoners, to escape.

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XXVIII. He shall cause a Light to be constantly burning throughout the night, Regulations in every Ward or Division of the Gaol in which Prisoners shall be confined, but such Light shall not be placed inside the Cell within reach of the Prisoners; and a Light shall also be placed in each of the sleeping apartments of the Officers of the Gaol not on duty, in order that such Officers may in case of alarm be ready for duty in the shortest possible time.

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XXIX. He shall cause that every Prisoner on admission be placed in a recep-be warried tion Cell, and strictly searched, and that all Koives, Weapons, Instruments, or things wintsoever likely to facilitate escape, be taken from such Prisoner; but no such search shall be made in presence of any other Prisoner, nor shall any Female Prisoner be searched except by the Matron of the Gaol.

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XXX. On the Admission of each Prisoner, the Warden strall cause to be recorded in the Gaol Register, the Prisoner's Name, Sex, Country, Age, Height, Registered, &e. Features, whether such Prisoner can Read or Write, and other particulars that he may deem necessary; and he shall take charge of all Money, Clothes, and other Effets that such Prisoner may have, or which may from time to time be sent on the Prisoner's account, and shall record an Inventory of the same in the Prisoner's Pro- perty Book, with the time of the Prisoner's admission, or of their receipt, and shall restore them on the Prisoner's discharge, or di pose of them as the Governor of the Caol may direct; but any of such Money or Property which a Prisoner before trial may require for the purpose of assisting him in conducting his defence on such trial shall be restored to him by the said .overnor on demand.

XXXI. The Governor of the Gaol shall cause plain and legible Copies of these Copies of Regulations Regulations, in English and Chinese, to be fixed in conspicuous places within the to be hung up. Gaol, and so that every Prisoner may have access thereto; and Translations in the Chinese Language of all Regulations now in force or hereafter to be enacted, with regard to the conduct of the Gaol, shall be posted up in at least Three conspicuous places therein.

XXXII. He shall cause every part of the Caol premises to be swept daily cleaning of Gok clean, or oftener if requisite, and shall cause the Gaol to be washed throughout at least once a Week.

XXXIII. Ile shall cause every Prisoner to wash himself daily, and that the washing of Prismers whole Person of every Prisoner be washed thoroughly at least once a Week, and the Clothes constantly worn by such Prisoner next the Skin, to be exchanged for a clean suit at least once a Week. In the case of Prisoners under sentence of trans- portation or penal servitude, and also of Prisoners whom the Governor of the Caol shall find to be of incorrigibly filthy habits, or whose Health shall otherwise require it, he shall as soon as convenient after sentence cause their Tails (if any) to be cut off, and to be so kept until Six Months before their enlargeinent. He shall cause the Ilair of every Prisoner to be kept cut as closely as such Prisoner has been in the habit of

wearing it, but (except as above, and also except in the case of Europeans) not more

closely, unless the Medical Officer so order; and he shall cause all Male Prisoners to he shaved once a Week, in the manner in which they may before have been accus- tomed to be shaved.

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XXXIV. He shall cause the Bedding and spare Clothing of every Prisoner to Airing of Clothing, XXIV. The said Governor shall record in his Journal all occurrences affecting be aired once a Week, in the open air if practicable, and to be washed as often as the Gaol; particularly such as relate to the Health, Discipline, or Employment of needful. the Prisoners, or the infringement of Gaol Regulations as to punishments; also every change of diet or clothing among the Prisoners; the allowance of extra-