✨ Gaol Regulations
THE GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,
PROVINCE OF HAWKE’S BAY.
Published by Authority.
All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereunto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.
J. C. LAMBTON CARTER,
Superintendent.
VOL. 3.] MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1862. [No 24
Superintendent’s Office,
Napier, Nov. 10, 1862.
THE following Warrants under the hand of his Excellency the Governor, and the Rules and Regulations of the Gaol at Napier issued thereunder, are published for general information.
J. C. LAMBTON CARTER,
Superintendent.
WARRANT.
By his Excellency Sir GEORGE GREY, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its dependencies, and Vice Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING :-
WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Lieut.-Governor and Commander-in-chief of the Colony of New Zealand, intituled “An Ordinance for the Regulation of Prisons,” Sess. VII, No. 7, the Governor is empowered from time to time to make such rules and regulations as to him shall seem fit, touching the duties of the officers of any public Gaol—the classification, diet, instruction, treatment, and correction of the prisoners therein, and generally to prescribe all such rules as may be necessary for the good discipline of any public Gaol, and the safe custody of the prisoners therein.
And whereas, by an Act of the General Assembly of the said Colony, intituled “The Secondary Punishment Act, 1854,” it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to make such rules and regulations as to him shall 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 shall come into operation until a copy thereof shall have been first published in the Government Gazette.
Now, therefore, I, Sir GEORGE GREY, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, under and by virtue of the provisions in the said Ordinance and Act respectively contained, do hereby make the following regulations for the purposes hereinbefore recited, and do publish the same to be in force within the Province of Hawke’s Bay.
As witness my hand this 4th day of November, 1862.
G. GREY.
By his Excellency’s command,
F. D. BELL,
In the absence of Mr. Domett.
RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE GAOL AT NAPIER.
- Every prisoner on entering the Gaol is to be searched in the presence of the Gaoler or Turnkey. His name, age, country, religion, height, and general description are to
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Hawke's Bay Provincial Gazette 1862, No 24
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⚖️ Publication of Gaol Warrants and Regulations
⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement10 November 1862
Gaol, Regulations, Warrants, Napier, Hawke’s Bay
- J. C. Lambton Carter, Superintendent
- Sir GEORGE GREY, Governor and Commander-in-Chief
- F. D. BELL, In the absence of Mr. Domett