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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH MARCH, 1897.

attend and investigate the case. In case of emergency, however, the Superintendent may on his own responsibility impose the restraints pro- vided by this rule for such period as may seem necessary, obtaining the presence of one of the Visiting Justices for the week as soon as possible. The order of such Justice, made on investigation of the case, shall indemnify the Superintendent.

279. If any male prisoner is guilty of any of the following offences, namely, :-

1. Mutiny or open incitement to mutiny in

the prison, or

2. Personal violence or attempted personal violence to any officer or servant of the prison, or

3. Aggravated or repeated assault on a

fellow-prisoner, or

4. Insulting or threatening language to any

officer or prisoner, or

5. A third or subsequent refusal to labour,

or

6. Wilfully or wantonly breaking the pri- son windows or destroying the prison property, or

7. When under punishment, wilfully making a disturbance tending to interrupt the order and discipline of the prison,

the Superintendent shall have power after taking evidence upon oath, affirmation or declaration to sentence such prisoner to corporal punishment which shall not exceed twelve strokes with a birch, if the offender is an adult, or six strokes with a birch, if the offender is a juvenile.

280. (4) If any criminal prisoner is guilty. of any offence against prison discipline as defined by rule 276, or (B) If any male prisoner is guilty of any offence specified in rule 279 or of any other act, of gross misconduct or insubordination requiring to be suppressed by extraordinary means, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, if he deems that the powers of punishment vested in him are insufficient, in conjunction with a Visit- ing Justice, after taking evidence upon oath, affirmation or declaration, to punish the offender in the case of (4) by close confinement in a partially darkened or light cell, on bread or rice and water, for a period not exceeding fourteen days, or by separate confinement, upon full diet and the authorized scale of penal or reduced penal diet in alternate weeks, for a period not exceeding six months, and in the case of (B) by corporal punishment not exceeding twenty strokes with a birch, if the offender is an adult, nor twelve strokes with a birch, if the offender is a juvenile.

281. Where the punishment to be inflicted is corporal punishment, a copy of the evidence taken under rules 279 and 280 shall be forwarded to the Governor and no corporal punishment whether awarded by the Superintendent alone or by the Superintendent in conjunction with a Visiting Justice shall be inflicted until written authority has been given by the Governor.

282. Corporal punishment shall be inflicted on the breech with a birch of a pattern approved of by the Governor.

283. No dietary punishment shall be inflicted on any prisoner, nor shall he be placed in a punishment-cell, nor shall corporal punishment be inflicted on him, unless the Surgeon shall certify in writing that such prisoner is in a fit condition of health to undergo such punishment.

284. No prisoner who shall be sentenced to solitary confinement by any Court shall be kept in such confinement more than seven days with- out an interval of one day out.

EMPLOYMENT OF PRISONERS.

CLASSES OF LABOUR.

285. No. 1.--Hard Labour.

(1) Shot drill and stone carrying in al- ternate spells of half an hour each, weight of shot 24 lbs., weight of stone 45 lbs.

(2) Crank labour 12,500 revolutions

daily, (12 lbs. test).

(3) Treadwheel.

No. 2.-Hard Labour.

(1) Employment on public works out-

side the prison.

(2) Crank labour 10,500 revolutions

daily (12 lbs. test).

(3) Combinations of shot drill and

oakum picking fb.

(4) Combinations of stone carrying and

oakum picking & lb.

(5) Combinations of crank labour 6,000 revolutions (12 lbs. test), and oakum picking 2 lb.

(6) Washing clothes in the prison, making coir matting and heavy coir mats.

No. 3.--Industrial Light Labour.

(1) Ironing and mangling clothes. (2) Making frame, coir, and grass mats. (3) Carpentry, coopering, tinsmith's work; tailoring, cooking, cleaning, print- ing, hospital attendance, &c.

(4) Oakum picking (11⁄2 Ibs.).

HARD LABOUR PRISONERS. 286. Prisoners sentenced to imprisonment. with hard labour for two years and upwards shall pass the first six months of their imprisonment in separate confinement and shall be employed as provided by rule 336 At the expiration of

that term he shall, if he has conducted himself fairly well, be placed at No. 2 Hard Labour, after which, if his conduct has been good, he will be placed at No. 3 Industrial Light Labour.