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783 [ 18 OF 1885. ] PRISON ,

275. If any criminal prisoner is guilty of any offence, or of a breach of
the prison regulations or of discipline, for the due punishment of which the
Superintendent of the prison 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 guilty of any offence in the preceding rule men
tioned by personal correction not exceeding thirty -six strokes if an adult, nor
twelve if a juvenile.
276. 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 condi
tion of health to undergo such punishment.
277. 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 vio
lence to any officer of the prison ; aggravated or repeated assault
on a fellow prisoner ; repetition of insulting, or threatening lan
guage 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
interrupt the order and discipline of the prison, and any other act
of gross misconduct, or insubordination, requiring to be suppressed
by extraordinary meaus.
278. 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
Surgeon.
279. No prisoner who shall be sentenced to solitary confinement by any
Court shall be kept in such confinement more than seven days without an
interval of one day out.
EMPLOYMENT OF PRISONERS .

CLASSES OF LABOUR.

280. No. 1. - 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 12,500 revolutions daily, ( 12 lbs. test ).
(3. ) Treadwheel.
No. 2. - Hard Labour.

( 1.) Employment on public works outsiile the prison .
(2.) Crank labour 10,500 revolutions daily, ( 12 lbs. test ).
(3.) Combinations of shot drill and oakun picking iib.
(4.) Combinations of stone carrying and oakum picking { lb.
(5. ) Combinations of crank labour 6,000 revolutions ( 12 lbs. test ), and
oakum picking, 10 .
(6.) Washing clothes in the prison, making coir matting and heavy coir
mats ,