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repeated at a less interval than forty-two days, by placing in irons, and
by such other prison discipline as may be prescribed in that behalf.
Provided always that no rule or regulation awarding any such pun-
ishment as aforesaid, shall come into operation until a copy thereof
shall have been first published in the New Zealand Government
Gazette.

III. ESCAPE FROM PENAL SERVITUDE—HOW PUNISHED.

Escape of convicts
how punished,
11. If any person who shall have been sentenced to be kept
in Penal Servitude for any term other than for life, shall be after-
wards at large within any part of the Colony of New Zealand with-
out some lawful cause before the expiration of the term of such
servitude, every such offender so being at large, and being thereof
lawfully convicted, shall be kept in penal servitude for any term
not exceeding five years, to commence and be computed from the
expiration of the term of the original sentence.

Escape of convicts
under sentence for
life.
12. If any male offender, who shall have been sentenced tobe
kept in Penal Servitude for the term of his life, shall after-
wards be found at large within any part of the Colony of New Zea-
land, without some lawful cause, every such offender so being at
large, and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall be kept in solitary
confinement during such periods not exceeding fourteen days at a
time or three months in the space of one year, as the Court shal
direct.

Reward for the disco-
very. &c., of escaped
convicts.
13. Whoever shall discover and prosecute to conviction, or
shall give such information as shall lead to the conviction of any
offender being at large contrary to the provisions of this Aot, shall
be entitled to a reward not exceeding twenty pounds (£20), at the
discretion of theJudge, for every such offender so being convicted.

Punishment for res-
cuing convicts.
14. If any person shall rescue or attempt to rescue, or assist
in rescuing or attempting to rescue, any Convict under sentence of
Penal Servitude, from the custody of any Sheriff, Gaoler, Overseer,
or other person, conveying, removing, transporting, or re-conveying
such convict, or if any person shall aid or assist any Convict under
sentence of Penal Servitude to escape from the custody of any
Sheriff, Gaoler, Overseer, or otherperson, such person so offending
shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to Penal Servitude for
any term not exceeding Ten years.

Form of indictment for
escape, &c.
15. In any indictment against any offender for being found at
large contrary to the provisions of this Act, and also in any indict-
ment against any person who shall rescue or attempt to rescue, or
assist in rescuing or attempting to rescue any such offender from
such custody, or who shall aid or assist any such offender to escape
From such custody, it shall be sufficient to charge and allege the
sentence or order made for the Penal servitude of such offender,
without charging or alleging any indictment, trial, or conviction of
such offender.

Proof of previous sen-
tence.
16. The certificate in writing, under the hand of the Regis-
trar or other Officer having the custody of the Records of the Court
where such sentence or order of Penal Servitude shall have been