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28. Prisoners of class 4, and prisoners of
    class 3 under sentence for longer than one
    week, are to have their hair cut close once a
    month, and to be close-shaved once a week.
29. No prisoner, on any pretence, is to be
    allowed to converse with any of the officers of
    the gaol.
30. Prisoners in health are on no account
    to be allowed to lie in bed during the day.
31. Singing, conversation, and angry ex-
    pressions are strictly forbidden.
32. Games and amusements of any kind are
    strictly forbidden.
33. Tobacco, unless by especial permission,
    is strictly prohibe
34. Any prisoner desirous of making any
    application or complaint to the Sheriff or
    Visiting Justices will be allowed to do so at
    their visit to the Gaol.
35. Every prisoner is to receive notice from
    the gaoler the evening before his discharge, and
    upon leaving the prison is to be strictly
    searched.
36. Whatever articles he was deprived of
    on entering the Gaol are, unless forfeited by
    competent authority, to be returned to him on
    leaving.
37. The provisions of these regulations are
    to be applied to female prisoners so far as cir-
    cumstances will admit. Females sentenced to
    penal servitude will be kept to suitable hard
    labour within the precincts of the Gaol.
38. The provisions of these regulations,
    excepting those having especial reference to
    hard-labor men, are applicable to prisoners
39. Every prisoner awaiting trial will be
    allowed two hours exercise in the airing yard
    in the course of the morning, and two hours in
    the afternoon of every day, and when there
    are more than two such prisoners they will ex-
    cise in parties as the gaoler shall see fit.
40. At the hour of exercise each pris
    shall be watched by the gaoler, turnkey, or
    other officer on duty, and shall on no pretence
    leave his sight; the rule relating to an attempt
    to escape from the hard-labor gang will apply
    to an attempt to escape under any other cir-
    cumstances.

Punishment Regulations.
41. Every prisoner who shall be guilty of
any of the offences next hereinafter mentioned,
that is to say,-

1. Refusing or neglecting to obey the lawful
   orders of any officer of the gaol.
2. Holding or attempting to hold inter-
   course with others than officers of the
   gaol.
3. Assaulting a prisoner.
4. Insolence or threatening violence to any
   officer or officers of the gaol.
5. Injuring or destroying the property of
   the Government.
6. Profane swearing, or using obscene
   language, or, playing at games or
   gambling, or making noises to the dis-
   turbance of the other prisoners.
7. Smoking, or supplying to or leaving in
   the way of a prisoner, tobacco, pipes,
   or other articles forbidden.
8. Any other conduct subversive of the
   peace, order, or good government of
   the gaol
   shall be punishable by being placed in solitary
   confinement for any period not exceeding six
   days, and a diminution of his rations.
9. Every prisoner who shall be guilty of
   any of the offences next hereinafter mentioned,
   that is to say,-
10. Attempting to escape.
11. Conniving at, and concealing prisoners
    in attempting to escape.
12. Assaulting any officer of the gaol
    shall, in addition to any punishment to which
    on trial in the Superior Courts for such of-
    fence he may be sentenced, be punishable by
    solitary confinement for any period not exceed-
    ing fourteen days at any one time, and not to
    be repeated at a less interval than forty-two
    days, and not exceeding in the whole four
    weeks, and by diminished rations as mentioned
    in the former regulations.
13. Every prisoner who shall be guilty of
    any of the offences next hereinafter mentioned,
    that is to say,-
14. Mutiny or outbreak.
15. Assaulting an officer, with intent to do
    grievous bodily harm.
16. Setting on fire, or attempting to set on
    fire, the gaol-building, or other pro
    perty
    shall, in addition to any punishment to which
    he may be sentenced as above, be punishable
    by solitary confinement for any period not ex-
    ceeding fourteen days at any one time, and not
    to be repeated at a less interval than forty-two
    days, and not exceeding six calendar months in
    the whole, and to diminished rations.
17. The above punishments may be inflicted
    by the Sheriff, or any Visiting Justice, upon
    due proof upon oath of the commission of the
    offence in respect of which such punishment
    is awarded.
18. Every sentence of punishment, with the
    nature of the offence, shall be entered in the
    Special Report Book, and signed by the Sheriff
    or Visiting Justice. Such sentence of pun-
    ishment shall also be recorded in the Journak

Attempt to Escape.
46. Any prisoner leaving his allotted place,
while at work, with intent to escape, or other-
wise making any attempt to escape, will render
himself liable to be shot by the guard or other
person in whose charge he may be; and each
prisoner is hereby cautioned that if he makes
any such attempt he does so at his own risk
and peril.

Rations
47. The scale of rations is to be as fol-
lows:-
No. 1.-2lbs. of bread, water ad libitum, oz.
soap.
"2.-1lb. of bread, lb of potatoes, lb. of
meat, 6 ozs. oatmeal, oz. soap.