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ployment, safe custody, management and
disipline of convicts under sentence of
penal servitude within the Province of Canter-
bury in the Colony of New Zealand.
Dated at Government House,
Auckland, this 11th day of
March, 1857.
THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

General Rules respecting the Prisoners.

1. Prisoners to whom the following Regu-
   lations apply include four classes.

2. Prisoners awaiting trial or commitmenit
   by the Magistrates' Court.

3. Prisoners committed for trial in the
   Supreme Court.

4. Prisoners under sentence of the Magis-
   trates' Courts.

5. Prisoners under sentence of the Supreme
   Court.

6. EVERY prisoner on first entering the
   Gaol, and before being locked up, is to be
   searched in the presence of the Gaoler or
   Turnkey; his name, age, country, religion,
   height, and general description, are to be
   entered in the Register kept for that purpose.
   The prisoner is to be reported to the Sheriff in
   the evening of the day of his entry.

7. All money, property, instruments, &c.,
   are to be taken from prisoners entering the
   Gaol; a minute, specifying particulars, and
   signed by the gaoler, is to be entered in the
   Register. Such money, property, &c, shall
   remain in the custody of the gaoler, unless
   otherwise directed, until such time as the pri-
   soner shall be discharged or otherwise entitled
   to a return of his property, or until other dis-
   position thereof shall be ordered by competent
   authority.

8. All prisoners of class 4, and prisoners of
   class 3 under sentence for longer than one
   week, will have their hair cut close on entering
   the Gaol.

9. Every cell is to be opened at 6 A.M.,
   between the 1st September and the 10th April,
   and at daylight during the remainder of the
   year.

10. Fifteen minutes is to be allowed for
    dressing.

11. The cells are then to be swept and dusted;
    the bedding, weather permitting, to be sus-
    pended in the airing-yard, and afterwards put
    away and folded in the smallest possible
    compass. This duty to be performed by such
    of the prisoners as may be told off for that
    purpose by the Gaoler,

12. The prisoners are then to wash themselves
    thoroughly, and make themselves as clean as
    possible.

13. The prisoners are then to be assembled,
    and their names called over, after which
    prayers will be read by the gaoler, or such
    other person as the Sheriff shall appoint. Dis-
    orderly conduct during prayers will be pun-
    ished under Clause 42 of these Regulations.

14. After prayers the prisoners will take
    their breakfast.

15. At 10 minutes before 8 o'clock the
    hard-labor men are to muster, and to be called
    over by the gaoler.

16. The hard-labor men are then to proceed
    to their work in couples, and in an orderly
    manner, and guarded by a police constable.
    Each man will be set to his task by the
    overseer. The prisoners will return from their
    work in like manner.

17. During work the Constable on guard
    and overseer are to prevent all idling and talk-
    ing, and on no account to allow speaking to
    passers by.

18. No prisoner is to go to the rear unless
    the constable on guard is satisfied that it is
    necessary, nor on any pretence is he to leave
    the constable's sight.

19. At 12 o'clock all the prisoners are to
    dine, at which time the hard-labor men are to
    be brought in, if at labor at a reasonable dis-
    tance from the Gaol: they will resume their
    work at 1 P.M., and continue at work, except
    as hereafter specified, until 5 P.M.

20. At dinner in the Gaol each prisoner
    will appear with clean hands and face.

21. On their return from work the hard-
    labor men will be assembled, and the names of
    all the prisoners will be called over.

22. Each prisoner will then wash himself,
    make his bed, and prepare for the night.

23. The prisoners will then be locked up in
    their appointed cells, and their supper will be
    given them. Before being locked up, each
    prisoner is to be searched by the constable on
    duty in the presence of the gaoler.

24. During weather too wet to admit of
    out-door work, the prisoners will be employed
    in the performance of such work as shall be
    provided by orders of the Sheriff.

25. Prisoners of classes 1 and 2 are not
    compelled to labor but they may volunteer
    to work with the hard-labor men by permission
    of the Sheriff.

26. Prisoners not sentenced to hard labour
    may be put to work, not severe.

27. The above regulations respecting hard-
    labor men apply to all prisoners working
    in the gang either under sentence or volun-
    tarily.

28. On one day of the week, to be appointed
    by the sheriff, the prisoners are to attend
    Divine Service.

29. Each prisoner (unless specially excused)
    is to attend Divine Service and prayers at the
    appointed times, and to behave himself with
    the greatest propriety.

30. Each prisoner is to be provided with a
    Prayer-book and Bible, which he is hereby
    prohibited from in any way injuring or
    defacing.

31. Unless otherwise ordered, on Saturdays
    out-door work is to cease at noon. From one
    to 5 o'clock each prisoner is to be employed in
    mending and washing his clothes, and assist-
    ing in cleaning the prison for Sunday. Each
    prisoner is to have a clean shirt and a clean
    pair of trowsers once a week.