✨ Convict Prison Regulations
NEW ZEALAND
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they may relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
By His Honor’s Command,
THOMAS WILLIAM MAUDE,
Provincial Secretary.
VOL. IX.] THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1862. [No. XX.]
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
CONVICT PRISON REGULATIONS OF THE PROVINCE OF CANTERBURY.
At the Government House, at Auckland, the 17th day of October, 1862. Present:
His Excellency The Governor in Council.
WHEREAS, by an Act of the General Assembly of New Zealand, intituled “The Secondary Punishment Act, 1854,”
It was enacted amongst other things that every person except as hereinafter mentioned who shall be kept in penal servitude, shall, during the term of his servitude, be employed on the Roads or Public Works, or otherwise be kept to hard labor in such part of the colony of New Zealand as the Governor shall in that behalf direct, and subject to such correction as may be necessary for his safe custody and strict discipline, and, for the purpose of being so employed as aforesaid, every such convict may be removed from place to place, either by sea or land, and may be confined in such Public Gaol, at such Penal Station, or in such place of confinement, or may otherwise be kept in custody as the Governor shall from time to time direct, subject to certain provisos in the said Act contained: And whereas it was further enacted that it should be lawful for the Governor from time to time to make such Rules and Regulations as to him should seem meet for the employment, safe custody, management and discipline of the convicts under sentence of penal servitude, and to enforce the observance of such Rules and Regulations by solitary confinement as in the said Act provided, and by such other prison discipline as may be prescribed in that behalf, provided always that no Rule or Regulation awarding any such punishment as aforesaid should come into operation until a copy thereof shall have been first published in the ‘New Zealand Government Gazette.’
Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the colony of New Zealand, do hereby, under and by virtue of the powers in the said Act contained, and of all other powers and authorities me enabling in this behalf, publish the following Regulations for the employment, safe custody, management and discipline of convicts under sentence of penal servitude, and for other the purposes in the said Act mentioned and specified to be in force within the Province of Canterbury.
PENAL STATION AND LIMITS WITHIN WHICH CONVICTS MAY BE KEPT TO HARD LABOR.
Every male person sentenced to penal servitude within the said Province, shall, during the term of his servitude, be kept to hard labor within the precincts of the Gaol at Lyttelton, or on the Roads or Public Works in the vicinity of such Gaol.
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Canterbury Provincial Gazette 1862, No 20
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⚖️ Convict Prison Regulations for Canterbury Province
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement17 October 1862
Convicts, Penal Servitude, Regulations, Canterbury, Lyttelton
- Sir George Grey, Governor of the colony of New Zealand