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VOL. XXIX.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 27TH JANUARY, 1883.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 27.

GAOL.

The following Rules are published under Section 6 of Ordinance 10 of 1858.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 25th January, 1883.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

Rules for the management of Prisoners employed on the Hongkong Public Works, and for the guidance and instruction of the Officers who shall have charge of those prisoners. Made by the Governor in Council under Section 6 of Ordinance 10 of 1858.

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PRISONERS.

1. The Prisoners shall be divided into parties of 12 men, and each party shall be known by its number as No. 1 Party, No. 2 Party, and so on.

2. Each party shall be under the charge of an Assistant Turnkey armed with a short sword for his defence, and who shall have the number of his party on a badge affixed to his left arm; and the whole of the parties shall be under the charge of a Head Turnkey armed with sword and revolver, who shall be assisted by a Turnkey armed in the same manner.

3.-The Prisoners will work in coupling chains of about 12 feet long, fastened to the prisoner by anklets and padlocks.

4.-If the work is near the Gaol, the prisoners shall be marched in to their mid-day meal at 12 noon, but if at too great a distance from the Gaol, the meal will be sent to them.

5.-The prisoners will breakfast at 6.20 A.M., and leave the Gaol for their work at 7 A.M., rest one hour for their mid-day meal from 12 to 1, and knock off work in the afternoon so as to reach the Gaol at 5 P.M. (9 hours daily including marching in and out.)

6.-On Saturdays the prisoners will work until 12 noon, and take their mid-day meal in the Gaol. 7. They will have 1 pint of congee thickened with cheap meat served to them when they reach the Gaol at 5 P.M., previous to being locked up for the night.

8.-No prisoner with a longer sentence than 8 years shall be sent out to work until he has served one third of such sentence, and no prisoner shall be sent out until he has completed either 4 months' penal labour, (shot drill and stone carrying, crank, &c.,) in the Gaol, or 6 months' separate confinement.

OFFICERS.

9.In addition to the Head Turnkey in charge of the District, the Turnkey to assist him, and the Assistant Turnkeys in direct charge of the parties, 3 or 4 Sikh Guards shall be posted in conspicuous positions round the works, armed with loaded rifles, to prevent escapes.