21. Every convicted criminal prisoner shall be allowed a sufficient quantity of food according to the scale established by rules to be ruade by the Governor in Council. Prisoners under the care of the Surgeon shall be allowed such diet as he may direct. Care shall be taken that all provisions supplied to the prisoners be of proper qua- lity and weight. Scales and legal weights and measures shall be provided, open to the ase of any prisoner, subject to such rules as may be made by the Governor in Council,
22. No convicted criminal prisoner shall be allowed any wine, beer, or other fermented liquor, except under a written order from the Surgeon, to be entered in his journal, specifying the quantity and the name of the prisoner for whose use it is intended, or shall reecive any food, clothing, bedding, or necessaries other than the prison allowance, except ander special circumstances, to be judged of by the Superintendent and to be reported to the Governor,
23. A convicted criminal prisoner shall be provided with a com- plete prison, dress, and shall he required to wear it.
24. On the discharge of a prisoner his own clothes shall be return- ed to him unless it has been found necessary to destroy them, in which case he shall be provided with clothing.
25. If necessary, the clothes of a prisoner shall be purified before he is allowed to wear them in the prison or to take them on his discharge.
26. Every male prisoner shall sleep in a cell by himself, or under special circumstances in a separate bed placed in a cell containing not fewer than two other male prisoners, and sufficient bed clothes shall be provided for every prisoner. A convicted criminal prisoner!** may be required to sleep on a plank bed without a mattress during such time as may be determined by the rules of the prison. Epi leptic prisoners, or prisoners labouring under diseases requiring assistance or supervision in the night, may at any time, notwith. standing this regulation, be placed by order of the Surgeon with not fewer than two other male prisoners.
27. The bed clothes shall be aired, changed, and washed as often as the Superintendent may direct.
Personal Cleanliness.
28. Frisoners shall be required to keep themselves clean and decent in their personas, and to conform to such rules as may be laid down for that purpose.
29. The buir of a female prisoner shall not be out without her consent, except ou account of vermin or dirt, or when the Surgeon deems it requisite on the ground of health, and the hair of male criminal prisoners shall not be cut closer than may be necessary for purposes of health and cleanliness.
Employment of Prisoners.
30. No gaming shall be permitted in any prison, and the Superin- tendent shall seize and destroy all dico, cards, or other justruments of gaming.
31. Debtors may be permitted to work and follow their respective trades and professions, provided their employment does not interfere with the regulations of the prison; and such debtors as find their own implements, and are not maintained at the expense of the prison, shall be allowed to receive the whole of their earnings; but the earn- ings of such as are buruished with implements, or are maintained at The expense of the prison, shall be subject to a deduction to be deter- ay mined by the Visibug Justices for the use of implements and the cost
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32. Criminal prisoners before trial shall have the option of employ- ment, but shall not be compelled to perform any hard labour.
33. On the acquittal of any criminal prisoner, or when no in formation is preferred against him, such an allowance on account of his carnings, if any, shall be paid to such prisoner on his discharge as the Visiting Justices anay think reasonable.
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34. Every ruale prisoner of sixteen years of age and upwards, sentenced to hard labour, shall, during the whole of his sentence when it does not exceed one month, and during one month of hisze sentence when it exceeds one month, be kept to hard labour of the first class, for such number of hours not more than ten or less than six (exclusive of meals) as may be prescribed by rules to be made by the Governor in Council under Section 18 of this Ordinance. More- over be shuuli for the rest of his term of imprisonment be kept to hard labour of the first class, unless he avail himself of the opportunity
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of remission to hard labour of the second class, and after he has earned such privilege he shall be liable to forteis the same on account of idleness, inattention to instruction or misconduct: provided that, if the Surgeon certifies any such prisoner to be unfit to be kept at hard labour of the first class during the whole or any part of the prescribed hours, such prisoner shall, during such whole or part of the prescribed hours, be kept at hard labour of the second cluse, unless the Surgeon certifies that such prisoner is unfit to be kept at either class of hard labour during the whole or any part of such hours; provided the prisoners sentenced to hard labour for periods not exceeding fourteen days raay, in pursuance of any rules that may be made by the Gov ernor in Council, be kept in separate confinement at hard labour of the second class during the whole period of their sentences.
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35. Every male prisouer under the age of sixteen years sentenced to hard labour, and every female prisoner sentenced to bard labout, shall be kept at hard labour of the second class, during such number of hours, not more than ten or less than six (exclusive of meals) in each day, as may be prescribed by the Visiting Justices unless the Surgeon certifies that he or she is unfit for hard labour.
36. No prisoner shall be employed at hard labour on Sundays, Christmas Day, Good Friday, and Days appointed for public fasts or thanksgiving, and no prisoner who is a Jew shall be compelled to labour on his Sabbath.
37. The Surgeon shall from time to time examine the prisoners sentenced to hard labour during the time of their being so employed, and shall enter in his journal the name of any prisoner whose health he thinks to be endangered by a continuance at hard labour of either class, and therempon such prisoner shall not again be employed at such class of hard labour until the Surgeon certifies that he is fit for such employment,
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