CO129-107 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [10-12] — Page 274

INTERROGATORY XXI.

The powers, duties, and mode of appointment and removal of the Visitors, Governor, Head and Under Warders, and Medical Officer.

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The

powers

and duties of the Visitors, Superintendent,

Medical Officer, and the Subordinate Staff of

are

the Prison

pretty generally defined in the Several Gaol ordinances and in the Regulations for Victoria Gaul dated 25th June

this Prison dated 11th September

1857, and those

herewith

for appended.

A number of Justices of the Peace are

1863

appointed

by the Governor every half year as Visitors to the garls &

The Superintendent

was

the

appointed by Secretary of State, the Medical Office, Warden Sminkeys ye by the Governor of the Colony, who has the power to

remove thim.