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ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1863. 547


Gaol.


4. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor by order in writing under Governor a'
thorized to et
his hand from time to time hereafter to appropriate and set apart any other site or sites apart any other
sites for gal
and debtors'
within the said Colony as and for a gaol or gaols and a debtors ' ward or debtors ' wards ward.
which sites respectively shall be called by such names respectively as shall in any such
order be specified .

5. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor from time to time by order Governor au
thorized to de
termine the use
in writing to determine the use of the said gaol and debtors ' ward and of such other of the said gaol
and debtors'
gaols and debtors' wards as shall have been formed as aforesaid or of any or either wards.
of them for the purposes of a gaol and debtors' ward respectively and to dedicate the
same sites respectively for any other purposes.

6. From and after the passing of this Ordinance no person shall land upon the Penalty on
persons other
said Island called Stone Cutters' Island except a Justice of Peace, an officer of Police than those duly
anthorized for
landing on or
or such persons as shall be duly authorized by an order signed by the Colonial Secre approaching
Stone Cutters
tary ; and no vessel shall without sufficient reason approach to within the distance of Island.
one hundred yards from the said Island except Police boats, commissariat boats, boats
belonging to Her Majesty's Ships of War, or boats carrying Justices of the Peace or
persons employed in the service of this Government, or persons duly authorized as above ;
and any person who, contrary to this Ordinance, shall land on the said Island or shall
being in any vessel wilfully approach within the said distance from the said Island
shall incur a penalty of not exceeding five hundred dollars .

7. Each gaol shall be under the care and control of an officer to be styled the How superinten
dents and staff
Superintendent of such Gaol, who shall be assisted by a staff to be appointed from time for each gaol
to be appointed.
to time by His Excellency the Governor, [ and such portion of any gaol as shall be set apart
for the confinement of debtors shall be further subject to the supervision and authority ofthe
sheriffofthe Colony ; Repealed by Ordinance No. 22 of 1882] and it shall be lawful for
the Governor to appoint a Superintendent General of Prisons, if he shall think fit.

8. All persons within the said gaols and debtors ' wards respectively already Rules, &c., to be
made.
constituted or hereafter to be constituted shall be subject to such general and special
rules and regulations and to such penalties and punishments respectively as are herein
after authorized or as shall be laid down and imposed by rules and regulations to be
passed and authorized in manner hereinafter provided.

9. The rules now in use for the regulation of the gaol of Victoria shall continue Gaol rules now
in use to
continue until
in force for the government of all gaols and debtors' wards in this Colony until the altered as after
provided for.
same shall be modified as hereinafter provided, and a copy of the said rules shall be
continually displayed within the said gaols and debtors' wards respectively in some
conspicuous place where they may be with facility seen and read by the inmates of the
said gaols and debtors' wards, and a copy shall also be appended to the Justices' Visit
ing Book in every gaol.

10. Such regulations shall be from time to time revised or added to as may be Alteration of
rules provided.
found necessary, and for this purpose it shall be competent for His Excellency the
Governor in Executive Council to make such revisions or additions , or for any number