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repetition of threatening language to any officer or prisoner, and any act of insubordination requiring to be suppressed by extraordinary means, the Superintendent shall have the power to sentence the said prisoner to corporal punishment not to exceed twelve strokes of the rattan.

It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to report at once to the Governor every case of his exercising the power conferred on him by this section.

275. If any criminal prisoner is guilty of any offence or cf 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 mentioned 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 condition 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 violence to any officer of the Prisoner; aggravated or repeated assault on a fellow-prisoner; repetition of insulting, or threatening language 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 extraordi- nary means.

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

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Appendix III,

VICTORIA GAOL, HONGKONG, 21st April, 1896.

I certify that Prisoner No. 528 is fit to receive 6 strokes of a Rattan on the Breech.

L. P. MARQUES,

Medical Officer.

GAOL HOSPITAL, VICTORIA, 5th May, 1896.

I certify that I have examined the Prisoner No. 528 WONG KAU to receive a private flogging of (24) Twenty-four strokes of a Rattan on the Breech, by order of the Superintendent in conjunction with a Justice of the Peace for Insubordination in continually refusing to perform his task, and I find him fit to receive this punishment.

L. P. MARQUES,

Medical Officer.