Witnesses may be, if necessary, summoned to appear at the Sessions. The Superintendent will record this in his Journal, stating the number of prisoners who have been asked the question, and their replies to it.
29. The Superintendent shall be responsible for the due discharge of the prisoners at the expiration of their sentences.
30. He shall visit the hospital daily, and see all prisoners therein, that proper arrangements are made for the safe custody of the sick prisoners, and that discipline is maintained, so far as is consistent with the medical treatment prescribed for them.
31. He may, with the concurrence of the Medical Officer, use the body belt for the restraint of a violent invalid prisoner who cannot be otherwise restrained.
32. He shall attend every corporal punishment inflicted within the prison; and he shall enter in his journal the hour at which the punishment was inflicted, the number of lashes or strokes given, and any order which he or the Medical Officer may have given on the occasion.
CHIEF WARDER.
33. The Chief Warder shall assist the Superintendent to carry his instructions into effect and shall see that his orders are strictly obeyed. He shall daily check, and initial, and send on to the Superintendent all books, returns, registers and other matters requiring his attention.
34. The Chief Warder shall reside in the Gaol, and shall not absent himself from his duties without the permission of the Superintendent.
35. The Chief Warder shall, during the absence of the Superintendent, take charge of the Gaol, but he shall have no power to award any punishment whatever.
36. The Chief Warder shall take care that every prisoner on admission is put into a reception cell and strictly searched, and that all knives, weapons, instruments, money, opium, tobacco, or anything forbidden by the rules or in the opinion of the Superintendent objectionable, or anything likely to facilitate escape, be taken from such prisoner. As far as practicable no such search shall take place in the presence of any other prisoner.
37. On the admission of each prisoner, it shall be the duty of the Chief Warder or Clerk to record in the Prison Register or nominal record of prisoners, the name, age, height, weight, features, particular marks and general appearance of such prisoner, with anything else worthy of notice.
38. The Chief Warder shall take care that all articles taken from prisoners, with their clothes and other effects, and all such things as may from time to time be sent in on the prisoner's account, shall be entered in the Prisoners' Property Book, with the date of their receipt and restoration; and that all such property shall be kept in a suitable place to be provided for the purpose, and shall be restored to the prisoner on his discharge; except such clothes as it may be considered necessary to destroy, or such money or property as the Governor may think fit to confiscate or to allow the prisoner to have to assist him in his defence on his trial.
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witnesses may be, if necessary, summoned to appear at the Sessions. The Superintendent will record this in his Journal, stating the number of prisoners who have been asked the question, and their replies to it.
29. The Superintendent shall be responsible for the due discharge of the prisoners at the expiration of their sentences.
30. He shall visit the hospital daily, and see all prisoners therein, that proper arrangements are made for the safe custody of the sick prisoners, and that discipline is maintained, so far as is con- sistent with the medical treatment prescribed for
them.
31. He may, with the concurrence of the Me- dical Officer, use the body belt for the restraint of a violent invalid prisoner who cannot be otherwise restrained.
32. He shall attend every corporal punishment inflicted within the prison; and he shall enter in his journal the hour at which the punishment was inflicted, the number of lashes or strokes given, and any order which he or the Medical Officer may have given on the occasion.
CHIEF WABDER.
33. The Chief Warder shall assist the Superin- tendent to carry his instructions into effect and shall see that his orders are strictly obeyed. He shall daily check, and initial, and send on to the Superintendent all books, returns, registers and other matters requiring his attention.
34. The Chief Warder shall reside in the Gaol, and shall not absent himself from his duties without the permission of the Superintendent.
35. The Chief Warder shall, during the absence- of the Superintendent, take charge of the Gaol, but he shall have no power to award any punish- ment whatever.
36. The Chief Warder shall take care that every prisoner on admission is put into a reception cell and strictly searched, and that all knives, weapons, instruments, money, opiuin, tobacco, or anything forbidden by the rules or in the opinion of the Superintendent objectionable, or anything likely to facilitate escape, be taken from such prisoner. As far as practicable no such search shall take place in the presence of any other prisoner,
37. On the admission of each prisoner, it shall be the duty of the Chief Warder or Clerk to record in the Prison Register or nominal record of prisoners, the name, age, height, weight, fea- tures, particular marks and general appearance of such prisoner, with anything else worthy of notice.
38. The Chief Warder shall take care that all articles taken from prisoners, with their clothes and other effects, and all such things as may from time to time be sent in on the prisoner's account, shall be entered in the Prisoners' Pro- perty Book, with the date of their receipt and restoration; and that all such property shall be kept in a suitable place to be provided for the purpose, and shall be restored to the prisoner on his discharge; except such clothes as it may be considered necessary to destroy, or such money or property as the Governor may think fit to confiscate or to allow the prisoner to have to assist him in his defence on his trial.
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