THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 291

contained, And whereas it was further enacted
that it should be lawful for the Governor from
time to time to make such Rules and Regula-
tions as to him should seem meet for the em-
ployment, 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 con-
finement as in the said Act provided, and by
such other prison discipline as may be pre-
scribed in that behalf, provided always that no
Rule or Regulation awarding any such punish-
ment as aforesaid should come into operation
until a copy thereof shall have been first
published in the New Zealand Government
Gazette.

Now, therefore, I, Sir GEORGE GREY, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do
hereby, under and by virtue of the powers in
the said Act contained and of all other powers,
and authorities me enabling in this behalf, pub-
lish the following Regulations for the employ-
ment, safe custody, management and discipline
of Convicts, under sentence of penal servitude,
and for other the purposes in the said Act
mentioned and specified to be in force within
the Province of Canterbury.

Penal Station and limits within which Con-
victs may be kept to hard labour.

Every male person sentenced to penal servi-
tude within the said Province, shall during the
term of his servitude, be kept to hard labour
within the precincts of the Gaol at Lyttelton,
or on the Roads or Public Works in the vicinity
of such Gaol.

Classification.

All such Convicts shall be divided into two
classes. The first class shall consist of such
Convicts as shall by superior and continued
good conduct merit indulgence.

No prisoner shall be placed upon the first
class without instructions from the Visiting
Justices or one or more of them to that effect,
upon the recommendation of the Gaoler and
without having previously served a probation-
ary term of six months at least.

The second class shall not consist of Convicts
whose general behaviour shall not merit indul-
ges and of such as shall have been degraded by
a Visiting Justice from the first class. All
prisoners in this class shall, if necessary, be
worked in irons.

Punishment Regulations.

Every person confined within the said prison
under authority of the said Act and who shall
be guilty of any of the offences next hereinafter
mentioned, that is to say:

1. Refusing or neglecting to obey the law-
   ful orders of any officer of the Gaol.
2. Holding, or attempting to hold, intercourse
   with others than Officers of the Gaol,
   without lawful permission.
3. Assaulting a prisoner.
4. Insolence to any officer or officers of the
   Gaol.
5. Destruction of the property of the
   Government.
6. Profane swearing or obscene language,
   or playing at games, or gambling.
7. Smoking or supplying to or leaving in
   the way of a prisoner to whom the
   indulgence is prohibited, tobacco, pipes,
   or other articles forbidden.
8. Any prisoner of the first class supplying
   another of an inferior class with any
   article prohibited to such inferior class,
   shall be punishable as follows, that is to say, if
   the offender belong to the first class, by being
   reduced to the second class.

If the offender be of the second class by
being placed in solitary confinement for any
period not exceeding forty-eight hours, and a
diminution of his rations according to scale
No. 2.

Every convict who shall be guilty of any of
the offences next hereinafter mentioned that is
to say :-

1. Attempting to escape.
2. Conniving at and concealing prisoners in
   attempting to escape.
3. Threatening violence to any officer of the
   Gaol,

shall be punishable by solitary confinement for
any period not exceeding fourteen days and
diminished rations as mentioned in the former
Regulation, and also by reduction to second
class.

Every person who may be so confined as
aforesaid and who shall be guilty of any of the
offences next hereinafter mentioned, that is to
say:-

1. Mutiny or outbreak.
2. Assaulting an officer with intent to do
   grevious bodily harm.
3. Setting on fire, or attempting to set on
   fire, the Gaol, building, or other pro-
   perty,

shall be punishable by solitary confinement for
any period not exceeding fourteen days, at any
one time, and not to repeated at a less inter-
val than forty two days, and not exceeding six
calendar months in the whole, by placing in
irons and with reduction to second class, if
belonging to the first class, and such person
shall not be entitled to the privileges of the first
class until he shall have undergone a probation
of at least one year.

The above punishments may be awarded and
inflicted by any Visiting Justice upon due proof,
upon oath, of the commission of the offence in
respect of which such punishment is awarded.

Every sentence of punishment awarded under
the above Regulations, with the nature of the
offence and the name of the Visiting Justice,
shall be entered in the "Defaulters Book,"
and signed by the Visiting Justice or one of
them.

Duties of Keeper.

The Keeper of the said Gaol shall see that
the Regulations are duly enforced. He is
responsible for the discipline, management and
safe custody of the convicts. He will see that
every officer under his charge performs his
alloted duties. He will have power in case of
attempted escape or flagrant breach of discipline
or of any of these Regulations, to place at once