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of an hour. They are to report to the Overseer
any irregularity in the condnet of the pri-
soners.

Traffic.
No Guard or any other Officer is to be
allowed to buy from, or to sell anything to, any
prisoner, or furnish any prisoner with any goods
except by permission.

Labour.
Hours of labour in summer from eight a. m.
to five p. m. with one hour's cessation for dinner.
In winter from eight a. m. to four p. m, with
one hour's cessation for dinner.
Prisoners are invariably to be called and made
to rise at day-light and to be locked up before
dark.

Divine Service and Instruction.
Before labour every day, and at least once on
the Sabbath day, prayer will be read or divine
service performed, at which every prisoner who
attends must behave in a decent and orderly
manner. Books approved of by the Visiting
Justice will be permitted. Any prisoner
damaging or making any book dirty to forfeit
the privilege of using books in future.

Letters.
Prisoners are allowed to write letters once
in two months only, more frequently if desired,
or by permission of a Visiting Justice. All
letters are to pass through the Gaoler's hands.
Any Guard or other Officer in the establish-
ment conveying letters to or from prisoners in
violation of this rule to be subject to immediate
dismissal.

Visiting.
Prisoners of the first class allowed to receive
visitors, being near relatives, once a month, on
Saturdays, between the hours of twelve and
one o'clock in the day, for a period not exceed-
ing 20 minutes.

Ali visits to be made only in the presence of
a Guard or other Officer.

Prisoners of the second class not allowed to
receive visitors, except by the special order of
the Visiting Justice.

Provided however that until the term of pro-
bation shall have expired those prisoners who
shall have merited such indulgence, may be al-
lowed by the visiting Justice to send and
receive letters and to receive visits at the times
prescribed by the last two clauses headed "Let-
ters" and "Visiting."

Attempt to Escape.
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 infringes
this rule he does so at his own risk and peril.

Clothing.
Every prisoner will be supplied with the
following articles of clothing, viz.; two cotton
shirts, two pairs of trousers, one red serge
shirt, one pair of boots, one hat or cap, one rug
and two blankets, the whole of which will be
marked and numbered with the prisoner's
number, the Government brand, and the letter
G.

No prisoner will be allowed to wear any
private clothing whatever, except under cloth-
ing by order of the medical officer. The
same to be marked as above.

Each pair of trousers and boots and each
cotton shirt must last six months. Each serge
shirt and hat or cap nine months.

Washing.
Each prisoner to have one clean shirt twice
a week. Trowsers to be washed once every
month. Blankets and rugs every three
months.

Prisoners to have their hair cut close once
a month and to be close shaved once a week.

Rations.
Each prisoner will be entitled to the follow-
ing scale of rations daily:—

For No. 1 Class.
1 lb. fresh meat, 2 lbs. potatoes, 1 lb. bread
1/2 oz. soap, 1/4 oz. tea, 1/4 oz. salt, and 2 oz. sugar,
6 oz. oatmeal or 4 oz. cocoa, also 2 sticks of
tobacco weekly.

For No. 2 Class.
1 lb. bread, 1 lb. potatoes, 1 lb. fresh meat,
1/2 oz. soap, 1/4 oz. salt. 4 ozs. of flour.

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement.
1 lb. bread, water ad libitum.

Prisoners of the First Class will be allowed
to smoke for fifteen minutes during the time
set apart for breakfast and dinner, but at no
other time.

Prisoners of the Second Class will not be
allowed to smoke at any time.

Female Convicts.
Females sentenced to penal servitude within
the said province shall, until further provi-
sion be made, be confined within the precincts
of the Gaol in Dunedin, and be there kept to
suitable hard labour.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of Executive Council.

ORDER IN COUNCIL,

Issuing Regulations for the granting of Gold
Mining Leases in the District of the Nel-
son Gold-fields.

AT THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE, AT AUCK-
LAND, THE 17TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1862.
Present:—

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

W HEREAS it is provided by the "Gold-
fields Act, 1858," that it shall be law-
ful for the Governor in Council from time to
time to make such Regulations, not being
contrary to the provisions of the said Act, as
he shall think fit, for regulating the granting
of Leases for mining purposes, and the terms
and conditions on which such Leases shall be