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52. No officer of the Gaol shall sell or have any benefit or advantage from the sale of any article to any prisoner, nor have any pecuniary dealing or transaction whatever with a prisoner, or employ one in any way in a private capacity.

53. No officer of the Gaol shall receive either directly or indirectly any fee or gratuity either from contractors for the establishment, or from prisoners, or from any person visiting the Gaol.

54. Any officer of the Gaol seen in the prison in the least degree intoxicated, or seen gambling, will be immediately dismissed.

55. No officer of the Gaol is to converse with prisoners except in discharge of his duty.

56. Any officer of the Gaol from whose charge a prisoner shall escape, shall be summarily dismissed, if such escape shall have happened through any default, neglect, or mismanagement on the part of such officer.

57. In all cases of escape the officer in charge shall be liable for the costs of recapture or pursuit.

58. On an alarm being given, all guards and officers of the Gaol are to turn out fully armed to await the orders of the Gaoler.

Duties of Guard.

59. Soldiers or Constables on guard are not to hold any communication with prisoners, except on matters of discipline.

60. When on Guard they are never to be without arms, to consist of a musket, bayonet and pistol, with six rounds of ball cartridge.

61. When on guard they are not to allow any prisoner to approach nearer to them than ten paces, nor to permit any prisoner to go beyond the prescribed limits without the overseer’s order.

62. On any prisoner passing or attempting to pass the prescribed limits, it is the duty of the Guard to challenge him by his name, calling out “stand prisoner,” with the prisoner’s name or number. On this challenge being repeated twice, and the prisoner neglecting or refusing to stand, then it shall be lawful for the guard or other officer to use his weapons, and in case of inability to prevent his escape by other means, to fire on the prisoner to prevent his escaping.

63. On the escape of any prisoner, the guard shall give an alarm, but on no account shall he leave the gang without the orders of the Gaoler.

64. Guards are justified in using their arms to prevent prisoners assaulting each other, or any other person.

65. The guard shall cause a sufficient supply of fresh water to be kept near the prisoners for drink.

66. The guard of each gang shall receive from the Gaoler the number of the gang. He shall count the same at least every half hour. He shall report to the Gaoler any irregularity in the conduct of prisoners.

General Regulations.

67. Juvenile prisoners shall be confined in cells separate and apart from adults, and all communications between such juvenile prisoners and the other prisoners (except as hereinafter provided) shall, so far as the circumstances of the Gaol will admit, be strictly prohibited.

68. Every adult prisoner of good conduct may, by instructions from the Sheriff or Visiting Justice, be allowed to devote one hour every day after his daily labour to self-improvement, and for that purpose be supplied with such books as shall be approved by the Sheriff or a Visiting Justice.

69. Juvenile offenders shall devote two hours every day to learn some useful trade or to read and write, and for that purpose the Sheriff or Visiting Justice may appoint some prisoner of good conduct and sufficient acquirements to teach them; and neglect or inattention on their part to such instructions shall subject them to punishment.

70. No prisoner shall be allowed to visit or go into any cell other than that in which he sleeps.

71. Nor shall he hold intercourse with others than the officers of the Gaol without permission.

72. No singing, loud conversation, or angry expressions, or noises will be allowed; games and amusements of all kinds are strictly forbidden.

73. The most strict subordination and obedience to the Gaoler and the officers of the Gaol shall be enforced.

74. No prisoner shall make use of disrespectful or abusive language to any person whomsoever.

75. Tobacco, unless by special permission, is strictly prohibited.

76. Every prisoner, before leaving the Gaol, is to be strictly searched. Whatever article he was deprived of on entering the Gaol shall be then returned to him, unless they shall have been forfeited by competent authority.

77. A notice is to be fixed in some conspicuous place inside and outside the prison cautioning persons against bringing spirits, liquor, tobacco, pipes, or other forbidden articles into the Prison or within the Gaol yard.

78. A proper register, defaulter’s book, visiting book, medical report book, day book, and account books, are to be regularly kept, and to be open to the inspection of the Sheriff and Visiting Justices.

79. All food is to be locked up beyond access of the prisoners. Every person within the Gaol is strictly prohibited from giving additional food to any of the prisoners.

80. The Gaoler may, with the sanction of the Sheriff or Visiting Justices, employ one or more prisoners in the service of the Prison, but not in his own service or in that of any private person.

81. In case of the death of any prisoner, notice thereof shall be forthwith given to the Coroner, and to the relations of the deceased when these can be ascertained.

82. Copies of these rules shall be posted in conspicuous places within the Prison.