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LVII. Male and Female Prisoners shall always be so confined as to prevent Prisoners to be scra- the former from seeing, conversing, or holding any intercourse with the latter. The Keys of all Cells, Wards, or Rooms, in which Female Prisoners 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.

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LVIII. The Prisoners, unless confined separately, shall be, in so far as the certain Gaol accommodation permits, divided into the following Classes; and no Prisoner of one Class, (with the exception hereinafter mentioned,) shall be confined, or asso. ciate with Prisoners of another Class.

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Two Prisoners not to cupy one Cell

Restriction

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1st, Felons under Sentence of Death.”

21. All other Felons.

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

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

Suretics.

Gth, Prisoners remanded for Re-examination.

7th, Approvers.

Eth, Debtors and Persons confined on Civil Process.

And every convicted Prisoner not a Felon shall be considered a Misdemean ant 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

LX. 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, three, or more. If there be 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.

LXII. 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.

LXII No Officer of the Gaol shall receive any Payment or Gratuity of any to receive Gratuities 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.

Ufficers of Gaol not

Visits to Females.

Gauler to Superia-

Rations, &e.

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

LXV. The distribution of Rations and Clothing shall be personally superin- send the distribution of 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.

LXVL 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,

Chinese diet.

Provisions for Per

LXVII. Any Prisoner untried, or confined for Debt, or on Civil Process, máj kans confined for Debt, 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

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Malt Liquor, or at his option one pint of Whề; and any Linen, Bedding, Clothing, or’ other necessaries, subject to strict search; and under such'- Regulatious as the Go vernor of the Gaòl may think expedient; and he may, at the request of the Prisolter, 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 fool, 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 heal. each Meal, and shall not be set to work until the expiration of the Quarter of an Hour immediately succeeding such Half-hour.

Description of La- bour for Prisoners.

LXIX. Every convicted Prisoner, and every Prisoner confined for a breach of the Revenue Laws, or for want of Sureties, shall Labour to the utmost of his ability 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; and every convicted Felon shall also be compellable to labour in Irons without the Gaol premises, unless in either ease 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 Labour 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 Prisoners under Sen- place within the Gaol, apart from all other Prisoners, and shall be allowed such a Dietary as the Sheriff with the approval of the Colonial Surgeon may direct; and no Persons other than an Officer of the Gaol shall be allowed to visit him, unless by order in writing from the Sheriff.

Not to work on Sun- days.

ience of Death.

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.

LXXIII The Matron shall reside in the Gaol, and be under the orders of the Matron's Duties. 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 Chapinin's Duties. to them a discourse, and perform all other Offices of Religion as often as he may see fit, and shall visit cach 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:

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 occurrences in the perfomance 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.

Duties of Medical" Omeer.

LXXVIL He shall also keep a short daily récord of the case of every sick Pri- His powers. soner, noting the Name of the Patient, nature of the Discase, 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 tho 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.

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