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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

to be noted in "The Visiting
Minute Book."

CHAPLAIN.
80. Clergymen of all denominations will
be allowed to visit the prisoners at such hours
as, after conference with the Gaoler, may be
found convenient, so as not unnecessarily to
interfere with the hours of labor.

81. They may, if they wish, see any of the
    prisoners under their charge, in private.

82. They will record their visits in the
    Visiting Book.

MEDICAL OFFICER.
83. He will visit the establishment not
less than twice in each week, and if possible
at a fixed hour, and will at these visits report
to the Gaoler the case of any prisoner requir-
ing an alteration of diet. He will also when
necessary direct their removal to the Hospital
Ward.

84. He will on these visits specially inspect
    the prisoners in solitary or separate confine-
    ment.

85. He will make a monthly inspection in
    company with one of the Visiting Justices
    and the Gaoler of the whole establishment,
    and will report thereon for the information of
    His Honor the Superintendent.

86. He will enter his visits in a book to be
    kept for the purpose, with any observations
    which may occur to him in the performance
    of his duty.

87. He will also enter in the English
    language, in a Register to be kept for that
    purpose, an account of the state of the sick,
    the names of their diseases, a description of
    the medicines and their diet, and any other
    treatment he may order in such case. And
    no medicines or medical comforts are to be
    issued without his order or authority.

88. His attention will be directed to the
    scale of diet, and he will, when necessary,
    increase or diminish the quantity of food with
    reference to the bodily health and constitution
    of the prisoners in separate or solitary con-
    finement, and generally in all cases which
    require a relaxation of the regulation as to
    diet, noting, however, such changes in his
    Visiting Book.

89. He will direct a supply of flannel in
    cases in which he may consider it desirable,
    as well as of such articles as he may deem
    necessary in particular cases.

90. He will be required to give directions
    in writing for secluding such as have infec-
    tious complaints, or are suspected thereof; for
    cleansing, disinfecting, and whitewashing any
    apartments occupied by such prisoners, and
    for washing, disinfecting, or destroying, as he
    may think necessary, their apparel and
    bedding.

91. He will examine all prisoners about to
    be removed to any other establishment, and
    certify to their being in a fit state for removal.

92. Upon the death of any prisoner he
    will insert in his register a report of the
    circumstances attending the illness of such
    prisoner; his opinion before the Coroner as
    to the cause of death; and the verdict of the
    Jury.

PRISONERS.
93. Coercive labour is the consequence of
crime. Obedience is the prisoner's first duty,
and will be most rigorously enforced. They
must remember that although undergoing a
just punishment for their offences, it is the
desire of those to whose charge they are en-
trusted, to see them raised to a better position
and consequently, while undergoing penal
discipline, they will be afforded an opportu-
nity of shewing by industry and orderly and
regular behavior, that they have acquired
such a sense of the duties owing to society,
and of the obedience due to its laws, as will
qualify them, at the close of their term of im-
prisonment, to enter on a new career with a
fair prospect of being able to make their way
as honest and useful members thereof.

94. One uniform system of discipline will
    prevail. Prisoners of uniform capacity will
    not on that account be more rigorously
    dealt with than those of superior attainments
    but men of a restless disposition will be
    placed at such description of labour as re-
    quires the closest and most unvarying atten-
    tion, and will be kept apart in the prison
    when it is possible to do so.

95. Prisoners on entering the Gaol shall
    be searched in presence of an officer, and
    all articles taken from them.

96. They will then be required to thor-
    oughly wash themselves before they put on
    the prison clothing-their hair will be cut
    short and their whiskers and beard shaved.

97. A list of their clothes, with all money
    and other property, taken from them will be
    entered in a book to be kept for the purpose
    with the signatures of the officer who has
    charge of them, and of the prisoner from whom
    they are received.

98. Every prisoner is to be kept steadily
    and constantly at labor. No relaxation of
    such labor will be permitted until the prison-
    er shall have completed at least one third of
    his sentence with good conduct, when any
    of them may be selected by the Gaoler to act
    as Wardsmen, Cooks, &c.

99. They are to pay implicit obedience to
    all lawful commands they may receive, and
    they are on all occasions to pay proper respect
    to all persons placed in authority over them.

100. They are at all times and in all places
     to conduct themselves with order and regu-
     larity; and silence must be strictly observed
     when marching to and from their places of
     labor. At no time is any conversation to be
     permitted beyond what is absolutely ne-
     cessary.

101. Prisoners having any matter to re-
     present or complain of, must address them-
     selves to the Gaoler, whose duty it will be to
     see justice done to them. They are not how-
     ever precluded from addressing themselves to
     the Visiting Justices, but they should remem-
     ber that for making idle or frivolous com-