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or order, lawfully made and provided in respect of such Gaol, shall be liable to be dealt with by the Superintendent under Rule No. 2.
98.-The subordinate Officers are expected to conduct themselves in on orderly and respectable manner at all times when off duty.
99.-When on duty subordinate Officers will appear neatly dressed in the uniform of the Gaol, Uniform will be supplied to them half-yearly, viz., two suits white summer clothing, with boots, helmet, and puggarees, in May; and one cloth suit, with boots, and cap, in November. They will be supplied with an overcoat every fourth
year.
100.--Subordinate Officers suspended from duty and afterwards restored to their situations shall not receive any pay for the time during which they shall have been suspended, unless a particular order be given for that purpose by the Governor,
101.--All subordinate Officers, on being relieved from any particular duty, or transferred to auother part of the prison, shall point out to their succes- sors all matters of special importance connected with their duties, and explain any directions of the Superintendent, or other superior Officer, affecting any particular prisoner.
102. Any subordinate Officer disabled from the regular performance of his duties by illness must report the same to the Colonial Surgeon, who will, if necessary, order his removal to the Government Civil Hospital; and during the time he is there he will be expected to conform to the Rules of that Establishment, and pay such charges as may be claimed for his maintenance and treatment.
103.-All Officers of the Prison must be men of moral principle and unblemished character. Disreputable conduct, and especially intoxication, will be visited with severity.
SURGEON.
104.-The Surgeon shall have the medical charge of all the prisoners in the Gaol, and of their treatment when sick. He shall also give medical advice and assistance, including medicine, to the Officers of the Prison and their families. He shall report from time to time, as may be directed, upon the sanitary condition of the Prison, the health of the prisoners and the Prison Officers, and in reference to any other point in connection with the maintenance of health in the Prison upon which he may be directed to report.
105.-The Surgeon shall visit the Gaol Ilos- pital every morning (and oftener if necessary) and attend to both the complaining sick and those in Hospital. He shall inspect the newly admitted prisoners and
pass them for Hard Labour or otherwise. He shall visit the punish- ment cells, and see the prisoners confined therein, as also all prisoners before they are put on Penal Diet.
106.-The Surgeon shall attend without delay at the Gaol at any hour on being summoned by the Superintendent, who shall be responsible for the reasonableness of the summons.
servants of the Gaol, and report whether they possess the necessary qualifications as to health and strength.
107,-The Surgeon shall enter in a Journ to be kept in the Gaol--
(a.) Any observations or suggestions
may deem it important to make 119.--The Surgeon shall take care that all the diet of prisoners not in Hospi medicines and stimulants are properly locked up, (b.) A short daily record of any sick pr d are not accessible to any prisoner; and when soners under his treatment, whethere is no paid dispenser, he shall issue day by they are in Hospital or not; the day to the Hospital Warder all medicines and names, nature of their complaints, a stimulants to be administered in his absence. the treatment pursued.
(e.) His orders for such additional article of food or clothing as he may dee necessary for the health of any pr soner not in Hospital, and the inedice reasons for such orders. Such order shall be entered in the Superinten dent's Daily Return, and submitted to His Excellency the Governor. 108. The Surgeon shall visit prisoners in separate cells who have given notice to the Su- perintendent that they are unwell and wish to see the Medical Officer.
109.-No medicine shall be administered to any prisoner without the Surgeon's orders.
110.-The Surgeon shall regulate the hours of exercise and of labour of prisoners out of health.
111.-The Surgeon shall examine every pr souer on whom corporal punishment is about to be inflicted, before it takes place, and give a certi ficate of his fitness to receive it or not.
He shall
be in attendance when such punishment is in- flicted. After such punishment, he shall daily attend to and examine such prisoner, until his person is quite healed.
112.-The Surgeon will examine the food pro vided for the prisoners, and inspect every prisoner weekly, and daily when epidemic disease exists in the neighbourhood.
113.-The Surgeon is to give written directions for separating prisoners having infectious com. plaints, or suspected of having them; and for cleansing, disinfecting, or destroying any infected apparel or bedding.
114.-The Surgeon shall report to the Superin tendent the case of any prisoner about to le discharged who may be suffering from acute or dangerous disease; in which case the prisoner shall not be discharged, unless he demand it.
115.-The Hospital Warders shall be under the immediate orders of the Surgeon, and shall be present at such times, and perform such duties as he may required from theui, consistently with their position in the Gaol.
116-The Superintendent shall place at the disposal of the Surgeon well conducted prisoners, who can safely be entrusted with the duty of attending upon the sick, not exceeding in number one to every ten patients.
117.-The Surgeon shall report to the Superin tendent any irregularity in the Gaol Hospital which may come to his knowledge, or any dith culty or obstruction which he may meet with in the performance of his duty.
118.-The Surgeon is to examine all candi- dates for employment as subordinate Officers or
120--The Surgeon's Journal shall be laid before the Governor at least once in each quarter of the year, and he shall report at the same time the prisoners and officers recording any want of on the condition of the prison and the health of cleanliness, proper drainage, warmth, ventilation, clothing, provisions or water. or any insufficiency or bad quality of bedding,
121. The Surgeon shall deliver to the Colonial Secretary, as soon as possible after the shall be detailed the number of sick among the close of December in each year, a report in which
mortality, the sanitary condition of the Gaol, and prisoners during the year just closed," the what diseases have been most prevalent therein. He shall point out any defects in the construc- tion or management of the Gaol to which such sickness may be attributed, and also what precau- tions should be taken to prevent the same.
THE CHAPLAINS.
122.-The Chaplains shall conduct Divine Service with the prisoners of their respective religions at least once on Sundays, and perform such other offices as they may think fit, and may visit each of such prisoners in his or her cell as often as they may think fit at reasonable times. To sick, dying, or condemned prisoners they shall have access at any time.
123.-The same privileges shall be allowed to every recognised minister in respect of the pri soners of his own religion.
124. The Chaplains shall inform the Superin- tendent whenever they may observe the mind of any prisoner to be liable to be injuriously affected by any punishment awarded.
125.-No prisoner shall be obliged to attend any service to which he may object on religious grounds, unless in the opinion of the Superin- tendent such objection is frivolous and vexations.
126.-The Chaplains shall record their visits in the Visitors' Book, and shall notify the thines of the celebration of the Holy Communion. Prisoners desiring to communicate must signify their wish to them before the time appointed.
127 The Chaplains shall, in carrying out their duties, be careful not to interfere with the established rules and regulations of the Prison, or the routine of discipline and labour.
128.-The Chaplains shall coufer with the Superintendent on all points connected with their duty, and they shall co-operate with him, and with the other Officials of the Prison, in promoting the good order of the establishment, so far as concerns the duties of their office.
129.-The Chaplains shall once a year present to the Governor a report of such points connected with their departinent as they may think it desirable to bring before him.
130-A Library shall be provided for the prisoners, consisting of such books as may from time to time be approved of by the Chaplains and sunctioned by the Governor.
THE VISITING JUSTICES.
131-The Gaol shall be open to all Justices
of the Peace.
132.-Two Visiting Justices (one official and one non-official) shall, in company if possible, visit the Gaol at least once a week, and on other days when their presence may be required.
133.-The Visiting Justices shall inspect the Prison and prisoners, and hear any complaints which may be made to them by the prisoners, and shall report on any abuses within the Prison, or any repairs which may be required; state- ments as to which they shall enter in the Visiting Justices' Book, with any suggestions or remarks they may wish to bring to the notice of His Excellency the Governor as to the state and discipline of the Gaol. They shall pay special attention to prisoners in Hospital and Solitary Confinement.
131.--If the Superintendent shall represent to them that he has, in case of urgent necessity, put a prisoner in irons, or under mechanical restraint, and that it is necessary that such prisoner should be kept in irons, or under mechanical restraint for more than twenty-four hours, the Visiting Justices may authorise such detention by order in writing, which shall specify the cause thereof, and the time during which the prisoner is to be kept in irous, or under mechan- ical restraint.
135. The Visiting Justices shall inspect the Diet of the prisoners, and if they shall find that the quality of any article does not fulfil the terms of the contract they shall note the fact in their book.
136.-The Visiting Justices shall also dis- charge such other duties as are assigned to them in the Special Rules for Special Classes of Prisoners, and in the General Rules.
SPECIAL RULES
for Prisoners awaiting Trial, those Remanded from the Police Court, and those Committed for the First Time in default of finding Security.
137.-Such prisoners shall be kept apart from convicted prisoners and not allowed to see them at any time.
138.--Such prisoners shall not be required to take a bath on reception, if, on the application of the prisoner, the Superintendent shall decide Surgeon shall state that it is unnecessary, or the that it is for medical reasons unadvisable.
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