THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST NOVEMBER, 1885.
320.
310. All convicted criminal prisoners with sentences of twelve months and upwards who shall be employed at remunerative” labour, will be allowed to earn a small gratuity at the rate of one cent for every six marks, but the whole gratuity for any one prisoner is not to exceed $10. In forfeiting marks for misconduct the proportionate amount of gratuity will also be forfeited.
311.-Convicts will not be allowed to earn any gratuity until they have served the first six months either in Separate Confinement or at No. 1 Hard Labour.
312.-The name of every convict under a life sentence who has served fifteen years of his sen- tence, or having served ten years of his sentence has attained or is believed in the absence of positive evidence to have attained the age of sixty, shall be submitted for the consideration of the Governor in Executive Council. This rule will be com- municated to every such convict now in prison, and to any other on first reception into prison, but each must be made to distinctly understand that such submission in no way implies that any remission of sentence will necessarily be granted.
SEPARATE CONFINEMENT.
313.-Where the Gaol accommodation admits of it, all Male Penal Servitude prisoners shall be required to pass the first six months of their imprisonment in Separate Confinement.
314.-Penal Servitude Prisoners will be allowed one hour daily to exercise in the open air under the supervision of an officer, who will see that the prisoners do not converse together, either in going to the yard, while at excrcise, or in return- ing to their cells.
315.-Such prisoners are to keep their cells and utensils perfectly clean at all times, and will be employed at crank labour, picking oakum, making or mending clothes, shoe making or mending, &c.
no account 316. Such prisoners shall on
other communicate or hold conversation with any prisoner, but shall at all times observe the strictest silence.
317. Such prisoners shall be permitted to write a letter on admission, if they wish it, to inform their friends of their whereabouts; but, with this exception they shall not write or re- ceive a letter, or receive a visit during the six months of their Separate Confinement.
318.-Felons, whom the Superintendent may have reasonable grounds for supposing to have been previously imprisoned for Felony, when sentenced to terms of Hard Labour" will be required to pass a certain time in Separate Con- finement from one to six months according to the number of their previous convictions, and their conduct while in Gaol.
319. Violent and disorderly prisoners may be placed in Separate Confinement at the disere- tion of the Superintendent for terms not exceed- ing seven days at any one time.
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SCALE OF DIET FOR EACH EURO- PEAN OR WHITE PRISONER.
DIETARY FOR EACII EUROPEAN OR WHITE PRISONER IN VICTORIA GAOL,
Bread,
Gruel,
BREAK-
FAST.
Bread,
Cocoa,
Bread,
Potatoes,
Meat,
Soup,
Bread,
DINNER.
Soup,
HONGKONG.
FULL DIET.
oz. Sunday, Tuesday, 1 pint f Thursday Saturday.
6 oz. Monday, Wednesday. 1 pint and Friday.
4 oz.
.........10
02.
6 oz.
pint
Suet Pudding,... I fb.
Bread,
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
4 oz.
1 pint
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
4 oz.
Rice, (common), 8 oz.
Fish,
Sunday.
.12 oz.
Curry Stuff,...... 74drs. Bread,
SUPPER. Gruel,
6 Oz.
I pint } Daily.
It is understood that these measures are for uncooked pro- visions, except in the case of made-up articles of diet; and meat is understood to be without bone.
SOUP. Each pint to contain 4 oz. Meat without bone, 1 oz. Onions, 1 oz. Barley, 4 oz. Greens, Yams, Sweet Potatoes or Taro, with Pepper and Salt. GRUEL. Each pint to contain 2 oz. Oatmeal, 1 oz. Mo-
lasses, and sufficient Salt.
Cocoa. Each pint to contain oz. Flake Cocoa or Nibs,
1 oz. Molasses or Sugar.
SCET PUDDING.-To every pound 15 oz. Suet, 64 oz. Flour,
8 oz. Water.
CURRY STUFF.-Chillies 34 drs., Pepper 1 dr., Turmeric dr., Coriander Seed & dr., Cummin Seed & dr., and Oil oz.
TEA. Each pint to contain oz. Tea, 2 oz. Sugar.
DAILY RATION FOR EACH EUROPEAN OR WHITE DEBTOR AND FIRST-CLASS MISDEMEANANT.
Bread,
.1 lb. 4
0%.
Beef, Mutton or Pork, withont bone (6 days a
week),
Fresh Fish (once a week), Beef for Soup,
Potatoes (3 days a week),. Vegetables (3 days a week), White Rice (1 day),
Suet Pudding (once a week), Oatmeal for Gruel (once a week), Teat.........
Sugar. Sult time).
Curry Stuff (once a week),
8 oz. 14 oz.
OZ.
8
Oz.
8 oz,
8 oz.
1 lb.
2 0%. 1
OZ.
2 Oz.
1 oz.
7 dr.
Soap, Suet Pudding, and Curry Stuff to be made as in recipe for other Prisoners, except that Beef, 8 oz., is allowed in this class,
ORDINARY PENAL DIET FOR EACH EURO- PEAN OR WHITE PRISONER.
BREAKFAST,Bread, Dixsit,—Rico (common),
Salt (fine), -Bread,
SUPPER-
8 oz. 8 oz. oz.
8 oz.
Norv, - -Any Prisoner sentenced to more than 5 days' Peñal Diet
Fint of Graed at Breakfast and Supper.
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