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INTERROGATORY XXVII.
The punishment for gaol offences. If flogging is in use, state the precautions taken to ensure the cat in use being always identical with a model approved by the proper authorities, the number of lashes, and the usual effect on the conduct of the prisoner. By whose authority may it be inflicted, whether the Medical Officer of the prison is present, and what interval elapses between the offence and the punishment? What records are kept and what reports made? Give also the length, weight, and description in every other particular of the model cat, and state whether it is identical with any cat authorized for use in Her Majesty's Army, or Navy, or in prisons at home.
Answer
Blegging
Diminished. Rations Solitang Confinemen
The Cat is always weighed before being used, and the weight compared with the regulation instrument sent from England by the secretary of State, the dimensions! of the Cat used in this prison are as follows:
9 oz
is
Weight complete
Handle covered with clock 60/4 n of tails
Inels on each tail Hinos
Length of fails Kutted
Dr handle
The Chief Justice
35 in:
1994.
can award fifty lashes to Eu inflicted at are lime, the Superintendent hoeve for Jail Offences, 244 hours llapses before punishment inflicted. for offences committed outside of the Gar. many days clapse before the punishment lakes place for the effect of corporal persistiment, on the conduct of
see notes attached to Interregaling Nr. 13. The Medical Officer examines the presences a fee hous before
punishment lathes place. Reports and Records are made of all corpural punishments.
the
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