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278 ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1853.


Gaol Regulation.


Supplying pri 6. If any person shall introduce into any prison, or wilfully convey in any manner
soners with pro
hibited articles.
to or within the reach of any prisoner whether within or without the gaol walls, any
intoxicating drink, tobacco, opium, letters , or other thing whatsoever, without the
consent of the gaoler, he shall pay a penalty of not exceeding five pounds sterling to
be recovered in a summary manner before any Justice of the Peace under the provisions
of Ordinance No. 10 of 1844.

Prisoners not 7. If any prisoner have been released from confinement under any conditional
complying with
the terms of a pardon granted by His Excellency the Governor, and have failed to fulfil such conditions,
conditional par
don may be re
committed. it shall be lawful for any gaoler or constable to apprehend the said prisoner, and to
convey him together with the original warrant of commitment before any Justice of
the Peace, and such Justice, on being satisfied that the conditions of release have not
been complied with, may in his discretion record a minute of the same on the warrant ;
after which the warrant shall have the same force and effect as if such pardon or
remission had not been granted ; but the Justice shall in every such case report his
proceedings to His Excellency the Governor.

What descrip
tion oflabour 8. When any Magistrate or Court shall sentence a prisoner to hard labour, this
to follow certain
sentences ofthe ' shall be understood to mean hard labour (in chains if necessary) within or without
Courts ofJusti
ce. the prison walls, in such mode as the gaoler under the sanction of the sheriff may
appoint ; and if a prisoner be sentenced to hard labour within the prison , this shall be
understood to mean similar labour imposed in a similar manner within the prison
walls ; and if a prisoner be sentenced to imprisonment, this shall be understood to
mean imprisonment with labour of such light description within the prison walls as
may be appointed by the gaoler under the sanction of the sheriff ; and persons charged
with any crime or offence, confined for want of sureties, shall be under the same re

gulations as te labour as those sentenced to simple imprisonment, and if prisoners for
debt, or on civil process, or under committal for trial, shall request to be employed in
labour, the gaoler may, with their consent, employ them in such work as may seem to
him suitable.

Indemnity 9. No action or proceeding at law shall be brought against any sheriff, gaoler, or
clause.
other officer of the said gaol for any act heretofore done by them, or any of them in
enforcing discipline therein.




[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1863. ]




NOTE.-Regulations for the government of the Victoria Gaol appear to have been
made and approved under this Ordinance on the 11th May 1857 and
25th June 1857, respectively, but not to have been gazetted.