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38. Provision shall be made by the Superintendent for the employ- ment of all convicted criminal prisoners hot sentenced to hard labour. The Governor in fimagil shall make rules as to the amount and nature of such employment, but no prisoner not sentenced to hard labour shall be punished for neglect of work, excepting by such alteration in the scale of diet as may be established by the ruica of the prison in the case of neglect of work by such prisoners.

39. Debtors shall have the leans of daily taking exercise in the open air,

40. Criminal prisoners, if employed at work in their own cells, shall be permitted to take such exercise in the open air as the Surgeoni may deem necessary for their health.

41. The names of the prisoners who desire to see the Surgeon, or appear out of health, shall be reported by the officer attending them to the Superintendent, and by him without delay to the Surgeon.

42. All directions given by the Surgeon in relation to any prisoner with the exception of orders for the supply of medicines or directions in relation to such matters as are carried into effect by the Surgeon himself or under his Superintendence, shall be entered day by day in his journal, which shall have a separate colman in which entries are to be made by the Superintendent, stating in respect of each direction the fact of its having been or not having been complied with, accompanied by such observations, if any, as the Superintendent may think fit to make, and the date of the entry.

43. In every prison an infirmary or proper place for the reception of sink prisoners shall be provided.

44. Due provision shall be made for the admission, at proper times and under proper restrictions, of persons with whom prisoners before trial may desire to communicate, care being taken that, so far as is consistent with the interests of justice, such prisoners shall see their legal advisers alone. --

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45. The Superintendent may demand the name and address of any visitor to a prisoner and when he has any ground for suspicion, may search or cause to be searched ruale visitors, and may direct the Matron some other female oficer to search female visitors, such and roles

search not to be in the presence of any prisoner or of another visitor; and in case of any visitor refusing to be searched, the Superintendent may deny him or her admission; the grounds of such proceeding, with the particulars thereof, to be entered in his journal,

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46. No punishments or privations of any kind shall be awarded,

except by the Superintendent, or by a Visiting Justice.

49. The Superintendent shall have power to hear complaints we

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1. Disobediences of the regulations of the prison by any prisoner; member of the Visiting

2. Common assault by one prisoner on another,

4. Profane cursing and swearing by any prisoner;

4. Indecent behaviour by any prisoner;

6. Insulting or threatening language by any prisoner to any

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all the above acts are declared to be offences against prison dis- cipline; and it shall be lawful for the Superintendent to examine Any person touching such offences, and to determine thereupon, and to punish such offences by ordering any offender, for any time not exceeding twenty-four hours, to close confinement, to be kept there upon bread and water. And the Superintendent shall enter in a separate book called the punishment book a statement of the nature of any offence that he has punished in pursuance of this regulation, with the addition of the name of the offender, the date of the offence, and the amount of punishment inflicted.

48. If any criminal prisoner is guilty of repeated offences against prison discipline, or is guilty of any offence against prison disveptiona which the Superintendent is not by this Act empowered to punish, the Superintendent shail report the same to the Visiting Justices, and (any two of such Visiting Justices shall have power to inquire upon cath and to determine concerning any matte s reported them and to order the offender to be punished by confinement in a punish- cel-for any term not exceeding fourteen days or in the case of prisoners convicted of felony or sentenced to hard labour, by pesamad

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49. No prisoner shall be put in irons or auder mechanical res- traint by the Superintendent of any prison, except in case of urgent necessity; and the particulars, of every such case shall be forthwith entered in the Superintendents journal, and notice foribwith given thereof to one of the Visiting Justices; and no prisoner shall be kept in irons or under mechanical restraint for more than twenty-four hoars without an order in writing from a Visiting Justice, specifying the cause thereof, and the time during which the prisonar is to be kept in irons or uuler mechanical restraint, which order shall he preserved by the Superintendent as his warrant.

50. All corporal punishments within the prison shall be attented by the Superintendent and the Surgeon. The Surgeon shall give such orders for preventing injury to health as he may deem necessary, and it shall be the duty of the Superintendent to carry them into effect, and the Superintendent shall enter in the punishment book the hour at which the punishment is inflicted, the number of strokes, and the orders which the Surgeon may have given on the occasion.

51 Every prisoner under warrant or order for execution shall, immediately on his arrival in the prison after sentence, be searched by or by the orders of the Superintendent, and all articles shall be taken from him which the Superintendent deems dangerous or ines; pedient, to leave in his possession. He shall be confined in a cell apart from all other prisoners, and shall be placed by day and by night under the constant charge of an officer. He shall be allowed such a dietary and amount of exercise as the Superintendent may direct. The Chaplain shall have free access to every such prisoner, unless the prisoner be of a religious persnation differing from that of the Tuhalalisha Church and be visited by a minister of such persuasion, in which case the minister of such persuasion shall have free access to him. With the above exceptions, no person, not being a Visiting

484. Alternative to 48, or in addition to 48)

"If a riagher be guilty of any of the abone offenses or of a breach of Gaol Regulations or Discipline for the due punishment of which the Superintendent of any Gaol may deem the powers vested in him insufficicat, if shall be lawful for such Superintendent in conjunc- tion with a Fisiting Justice after inquiry to punish such prisoner by close or solitary confinement on bread and water or rice and water for not exceeding fourteen days. or if the prisoner be convicted of felony or sentenced to hard labour by personal correction not exceed- ing thirty-six strokes.

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During the preparation for an execution, and the time of the execution, no person shall enter the prison who is not legally en titled to do so, unless in pursuance of an order in writing from the Superintendent,

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