THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 59

6. Prisoners, weather permitting, to sus-
   pend their bedding in the airing yard at least
   twice a week.
7. Fifteen minutes to be allowed for
   dressing.
8. Prisoners having washed and dressed
   themselves, the Gaoler is to call over the
   roll.
9. After roll-call, breakfast; at noon,
   dinner; at a quarter past five, supper; at
   which meals each prisoner shall appear with
   clean hands and face.
10. Each prisoner to be furnished with a
    Bible and Prayer-book, and after supper such
    prisoners as have conducted themselves well
    shall be allowed to read such books as may
    be approved of by the Visiting Justices for
    the space of one hour, after which the
    prisoners are to be locked into their appointed
    cells for the night.
11. All the cells to be thoroughly searched
    before the prisoners are locked up for the
    night; the prisoners to be thoroughly searched
    before they are locked into the cells, and at
    any other time that the Gaoler may consider
    advisable.
12. Every prisoner is to receive notice from
    the Gaoler the morning before his discharge,
    and every prisoner before leaving is to deliver
    to the Gaoler the clothing received on entry,
    in a clean and neat state, to be strictly
    searched by the Gaoler, and to be put in pos-
    session of all effects taken from him on com-
    mittal, and if not taken away by him, the
    same may be disposed of in such manner as
    the Visiting Justices may direct.

LABOUR.

13. The hours for labour shall be from 8
    a.m. to 5 p.m.; one hour's cessation for
    dinner.
14. When prisoners have been sentenced
    to more than forty-eight hours' imprisonment,
    their day's labour on Saturdays shall cease
    at noon; the afternoon of that day shall be
    spent by the prisoners in washing and
    mending their clothes, and clearing the
    prison.
15. Prisoners who have been sentenced to
    imprisonment for forty-eight hours, or less,
    shall continue their labour on Saturdays as
    on other days.
16. During wet weather the hard labour
    men to be employed inside the Gaol.
17. On Sundays every prisoner shall
    attend at the services held by Clergymen
    visiting the prison, or if there be no Visiting
    Clergymen at service held by any person
    appointed by the Superintendent for that
    purpose.

CLOTHING.

18. Every prisoner on entering the Gaol to
    be supplied with the following articles of
    clothing:-1 blue serge shirt or jacket, 2 pairs
    trousers, 2 cotton shirts, 1 pair boots, 1 rug,
    1 pair blankets, 1 hat or cap, the whole of
    which shall be numbered with the prisoner's
    number and marked (the outside clothing in
    a conspicuous manner) with the Government
    brand and the letters N. P. J.
19. If a prisoner shall be found to be
    wearing under-clothing when brought to the
    Gaol, he shall be supplied with two flannel
    waistcoats, in addition to the clothing above
    enumerated, and the same shall be done in
    any other case on the recommendation of the
    medical officer attending the Gaol.

PUNISHMENT REGULATIONS.

20. Any prisoner,

I. Being insolent or threatening violence
whatsoever;

II. Injuring or destroying the property
of the Government;

III. Or being guilty of any misconduct,
not provided against in these rules,
subversive of the peace, order, or
good management of the Gaol, shall be
punishable by being placed in solitary
confinement for any period not exceed-
ing seven days, with, in addition
thereto (at the option of the Acting
Visiting Justice) a diminution of his
rations; and in addition, in case of
any injury to or destruction of any
property belonging to the Govern-
ment, or to anyone else, by a
prisoner, who shall have money or
property in the hands of the Gaoler,
such property may be wholly or
partially forfeited by order of a Visit-
ing Justice, to repay such injury or
destruction.

21. Any prisoner who shall be guilty of a
    repetition of any of the offences above men-
    tioned, or who shall be guilty of any of the
    offences next hereinafter mentioned, that is
    to say :-

I. Attempting to escape;

II. Conniving at or concealing another
prisoner attempting to escape;

III. Or assulting any officer of the Gaol,
shall, in addition to any other punish-
ment to which he may by law other-
wise be sentenced, be punishable by
close confinement, for any period not
exceeding fourteen days, and by
diminished rations. Provided that if
such confinement be solitary, the
terms and periods of such confinement
shall not be longer nor at shorter
intervals than those authorized by
Section III. of the "Secondary Punish-
ment Act Amendment Act, 1863."

22. Any prisoner who shall be guilty of
    a repetition of any of the offences immediate-
    ly before mentioned, or who shall be guilty
    of any of the offences immediately hereinafter
    mentioned, that is to say:-

I. Mutiny or outbreak;

II. Assulting an officer of the Gaol with
intent to do grievous bodily harm;

III. Setting on fire or attempting to set
on fire the Gaol buildings, or other
property, shall, in addition to any
punishment to which he may by law
be otherwise sentenced, be punishable