1384 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. 24TH DECEMBER, 1887.
261.-If any criminal prisoner is guilty of any offence, or of a breach of .Gaol Regulations or Discipline, for the due punishment of which the Superintendent of the Gaol may deem the powers vested in him insufficient, it shall be lawful for such Superintendent, in conjunction. with a Visiting Justice, after enquiry, to punish such prisoner by close or solitary confinement on bread, or rice and water, for a period not exceeding fourteen days, or, in the case of a male prisoner. by personal correction not exceeding thirty-six strokes if an adult, nor twelve if a juvenile.
262.--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 that such prisoner is in a fit condition of health to undergo such punishment.
263.-The following offences committed by Male prisoners will render them liable to corporal punishment
1st. Mutiny, or open incitement to mutiny in the Prison; personal violence to any Officer of the Prison; aggravated or repeated assault on a fellow pri- soner; repetition of insulting, or threatening language to any Officer or prisoner.
2nd. Wilfully and maliciously breaking the Prison windows, or otherwise destroying the Prison property. 3rd. When under punishment, wilfully
making a disturbance tending to in- terrupt the order and discipline of the Prison, and any other act of gross misconduct, or insubordination, requiring to be suppressed by extra- ordinary means.
264.-Corporal punishment shall be inflicted on the breech, with a rattan of a pattern to be approved by the Governor on the recommendation of the Medical Officer.
265 No prisoner who shall be sentenced to Solitary Confinement by any Court will be kept in such confinement more than seven days with- out an interval of one day out.
EMPLOYMENT OF PRISONERS.
CLASSES OF LABOUR.
266.-No. 1.-Penal or Rigorous Hard Labour.
(1.) Shot drill and Stone carrying in alternate spells of half an hour each, weight of shot 24 lbs., weight of stone 45 lbs.
(2.) Crank Labour in a Separate Cell, task, 12,500 revolutions daily, (12 tbs. test). (3.) Treadwheel..
No. 2.-Industrial Hard Labour. (1.) Employment on public works out- side the Gaol. Crank labour in a separate cell, task, 10,500 revolutions daily, (12 fbs. test).
(2.) Combinations of Shot drill and Oakum
picking, fb.
Combinations of Stone carrying and Oakum picking,
b.
Combinations of Crank labour 6,000 rev. (12 lbs. test), Oakum picking, fb.
(3.) Washing clothes in the Gaol, 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.
(4..) Tailoring, Cooking, Cleaning, Print-
ing, Hospital Attendance, &c. (5.) Oakum picking (11⁄2 tb.).
PENAL SERVITUDE PRISONERS. 267.--Where Separate confinement is not pos- sible, prisoners sentenced to Penal Servitude will pass the first six months of their imprisonment at No. 1 Penal Labour, after which they will be employed for the remainder of their imprison- ment at No. 2 Industrial Hard Labour, either inside or outside the Gaol; but principally on Public works.
268.-Prisoners sentenced to Penal Servitude whom the Surgeon excuses will be employed on Industrial Hard or Light Labour as he may direct.
HARD LABOUR PRISONERS.
269.-Every Male prisoner of sixteen years of age and upwards whose sentence is three months Hard Labour and under, but more than fourteen days, shall pass the whole of his, im- prisonment at No. 1 Penal Labour.
270.-Every Male prisoner of sixteen years of age and upwards sentenced to Hard Labour, shall be kept at No. 1 Penal Labour for the first three months of his sentence. At the expiration of that term he shall, if he has conducted him- self fairly well, be placed at No. 2 Industrial Hard Labour.
271. Every Male prisoner under the age of sixteen years sentenced to Hard Labour shall be kept for the first three months of his sentence at No. 2 Hard Labour.
272.-When a prisoner sentenced to Hard Labour has been three months at No. 2 Industrial Hard Labour, he shall, if his conduct has been good, be placed at No. 3 Industrial Light Labour.
273.-All Hard Labour prisoners who shall be excused by the Surgeon will be employed at either Industrial Hard or Light Labour as he may direct.
274.-European prisoners will not be employed at Stone carrying, but will perform the combi- nation of Shot drill and Oakum picking instead.
275.-If a Male prisoner shall misconduct himself, the Superintendent may either keep him at No. 1 Penal Labour for any extra term not exceeding three months at any one time, or he may send him back from the second class or third class for the same terin.
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