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Cleanliness.

23. Each prisoner to have one clean shirt
    twice a week; trousers to be washed once a
    week; blankets and rugs to be washed every
    two months.

24. Each prisoner to have his hair cut close
    once a month, and to be close shaved twice a
    week.

25. At every meal prisoners shall appear
    with clean hands and face.

26. They shall also wash themselves before
    being locked up for the night.

27. The prison shall be washed out every
    week, and every cell is to be washed out at
    least every other day.

28. The greatest cleanliness is to be enforced
    throughout the Gaol buildings and yards, and
    with respect to the prisoners' bedding and
    clothes.

Clothing.

29. Every prisoner shall be supplied with the
    following articles of clothing: -2 pairs trousers,
    2 cotton shirts, 1 blue serge shirt, 1 rug, 1 pair
    boots, 2 blankets, 1 hat or cap, the whole of
    which shall be marked and numbered with the
    prisoner's number, the Government brand, and
    the letters N. G.

30. No prisoner will be allowed to wear any
    private clothing whatever, except under clothing,
    by order of the medical officer.

31. Each pair boots and trousers, and each
    cotton shirt, must last six months. Each serge
    shirt, and hat or cap, twelve months.

Punishment Regulations.

32. Any prisoner
    I. Being insolent or threatening violence
    to any person whomsoever, other than an
    officer of the Gaol.
    II. Injuring or destroying the property
    of the Government.
    III. Or being guilty of any other mis-
    conduct not provided against in these
    rules, 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 (7)
    seven days, and in addition thereto, (at the
    option of a Visiting Justice), a diminution of
    his rations, and in addition, in case of destruc-
    tion or injury to any property of Government
    by a prisoner who shall have money or pro-
    perty in the hands of the Gaoler, such money
    or property may be wholly or partially forfeited
    by order of a Visiting Justice, to repay such
    destruction or injury.

33. Every prisoner who shall be guilty of
    any of the offences next hereinafter mentioned,
    that is to say
    I. Attempting to escape.
    II. Conniving at and concealing a
    prisoner or prisoners attempting to es-
    cape.
    III. Assaulting any officer of the
    Gaol,
    shall, in addition to any punishment to which
    he may by law otherwise be sentenced, be
    punishble by close confinement for any period
    not exceeding (14) fourteen days, and by
    diminished rations.

34. Every prisoner who shall be guilty of
    any of the offences next hereinafter mentioned,
    that is to say
    I. Mutiny or outbreak.
    II. Assaulting an officer with intent to
    do grievous bodily harm.
    III. 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 by law otherwise be sentenced, be
    punishable by close confinement for any period
    not exceeding one calender month, and by
    diminished rations.

35. Complaints touching the above, and all
    other offences committed by prisoners shall be
    heard and determined upon due proof upon oath
    by one or more Visiting Justice or Justices.

36. Every sentence of punishment, with the
    nature of the offence, shall be entered in the
    defaulter's book, and signed by the Visiting
    Justice.

Attempts to Escape.

37. 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.

38. Any prisoner attempting to escape, or
    who, having escaped, shall be recaptured, shall
    be put in irons for such term as the Sheriff or
    Visiting Justices shall direct.

Visiting and Letters.

39. No prisoner shall be permitted to receive
    visits, except by express permission from the
    Sheriff or Visiting Justice. The permission
    shall be in writing: and visits shall only be
    permitted on Saturdays, unless otherwise stated
    in the permission.

40. Visitors shall be admitted one at a time,
    and each in his turn.

41. Every such visit must be in the presence
    of the Gaoler or a Turnkey, and must not last
    more than twenty minutes.

42. Prisoners shall not be permitted to send
    or receive letters without permission from the
    Sheriff or Visiting Justice. All letters so sent
    or received must pass unsealed through the
    hands of the Gaoler, who is at liberty, if he
    thinks fit, to open and read them.

Officers of the Gaol.

43. The Gaoler shall every day inspect every
    yard, cell, and portion of the Gaol and see that
    the cells are kept clean.

44. He shall see every prisoner at least once
    in twenty-four hours, and once a week shall go
    through the prison at uncertain hours of the
    night, entering the same in the day book.

45. He shall also examine the locks and bolts
    of all the cells, wards, and gates, daily, and
    shall also examine the irons of such prisoners