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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH MAY, 1899.

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tobacco.

231. Smoking shall not be allowed in, nor Smoking of tobacco or any other article be introduced into, the prison except in pursuance of special rules, or by permission of the Superintendent.

232. Each prisoner shall be supplied with a Food. sufficient quantity of wholesome food, according to scales of diet which shall be approved by the Governor in Council.

Indian

233. The best possible arrangement shall be Food of made as to the food of Indian prisoners, so that prisoners. they may not be forced to choose between loss of food and loss of caste.

as to diet.

234. Prisoners who have any complaint to Complaints make regarding the diet furnished to them, or who wish their diet to be weighed or measured to ascertain whether they are supplied with the authorized quantity, shall make their complaint immediately their diet is handed to them, and it shall be weighed or measured in their presence and in that of the officer deputed for that pur- pose. Repeated complaints of a groundless na- ture made by any prisoner under colour of this rule, with the evident purpose of giving annoy ance or trouble, shall be treated as a breach of prison discipline and the offender will be liable to punishment accordingly.

additions

to food.

235. Any special addition to the food in the Special diet scale may, in the case of a prisoner not being a patient in the infirmary, be made only by authority of the Assistant Superintendent on the written recommendation of the Medical Officer.

spirituous

236. A convicted criminal prisoner shall not Restrictions be allowed any wine, beer, or other fermented as to liquor, except under a written order from the liquors. Medical Officer, to be entered in his Journal, specifying the quantity, and the name and num- ber of the prisoner for whose use it is intended.

as to food,

237. A convicted prisoner shall not receive Restrictions any food, clothing, bedding, or necessaries other clothing, etc. than the prison allowance, except under special

circumstances.

238. Every prisoner shall be provided with Prison dress. a complete prison dress and shall be required to wear it, unless otherwise provided by special. rules.

clothes.

239.-(1.) On the discharge of a prisoner Disposal of sentenced to imprisonment for a period of less prisoners' than two years, his own clothes shall be returned to him unless it has been found necessary to destroy then, in which case he shall be provided with clothing.

(2.) The clothing of a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for two years and upwards may be given to his friends, with the exception of one suit, which will be sold or otherwise disposed of, in order to recoup the Government for the expense of providing a suit- able suit of clothes for the prisoner on his dis- charge.

240. The whole of every Chinese prisoner's Change of clothing and the under-clothing of every Euro- clothing. pean prisoner shall be changed weekly.

of separate

241. Each prisoner shall usually occupy a Occupation cell by himself by day and by night (except as cells." otherwise directed). If for any reason it is ne-

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