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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1866.

G. GREY, Governor.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance of the Lieutenant-
Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the
Colony of New Zealand, intituled "An Ordinance
for the Regulation of Prisons," Session VII., No. 7,
the Governor is empowered from time to time to
make such rules and regulations as to him may seem
fit, touching the duties of the Officers of any Public
Gaol, the classification, diet, instruction, treatment
and correction of the Prisoners therein, and
generally to prescribe all such rules as may be
necessary for the good discipline of any Public Gaol
and the safe custody of the prisoners therein.

And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly
of the said Colony, intituled "The Secondary
Punishment Act, 1854" it is enacted, that it shall be
lawful for the Governor from time to time to make
such rules and regulations as to him shall seem meet
for the employment, 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 confinement as in the
said Act provided, and by such prison discipline as
may be prescribed in that behalf: provided always
that no rule or regulation awarding any such punish-
ment as aforesaid shall come into operation until a
copy thereof shall have been first published in the
New Zealand Gazette.

And whereas by an Act of the General Assembly
of the said Colony, intituled "The Secondary
Punishment Act Amendment Act, 1863," it is enacted
that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to
time to make such rules and regulations as to him
shall seem meet for the employment, safe custody,
management and discipline of Convicts under sentence
of Penal Servitude, and to enforce the observance of
such rules and regulations by solitary confinement
for any period not exceeding one month at any one
time, or for three months in periods of one month at
intervals of at least one month each; by placing in
irons; whipping not exceeding fifty lashes at one
time; by imprisonment not exceeding twelve months,
in addition to the original sentence; and by such

Prison discipline as may be prescribed in that behalf:
provided always that no rule or regulation awarding
any such punishment as aforesaid shall come into
operation until a copy thereof shall have been first
published in the New Zealand Gazette:

Now therefore, I, Sir George Grey, Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, under and by virtue of the
provisions in the said Ordinance and Acts respec-
tively contained, do hereby make the following
regulations for the purposes hereinbefore recited, and
do publish the same to be in force within the Province
of Auckland.

As witness the hand of His Excellency Sir
George Grey, Knight Commander of the
Most Honourable Order of the Bath,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in
and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, at the
Government House at Wellington, this
twenty-seventh day of June, 1866.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Prisoners.

1. Coercive labor is the consequence of crime.
   The first duty of the prisoner is obedience, which will
   be most rigorously enforced. Prisoners while under-
   going a just punishment for their offences must bear
   in mind that it is the desire of those to whose charge
   they are entrusted to see them raised to a better
   position, and that consequently, while undergoing
   penal discipline, they will be afforded an opportunity
   of showing by industry, and orderly and regular
   behaviour, that they have acquired such 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 imprisonment, to enter on a new career, with
   a fair prospect of being able to make their way as
   honest and useful members of society.

2. One uniform system of discipline will prevail.
   Prisoners of less than average intellect will not on
   that account be more rigorously dealt with than
   others; but men of a restless disposition will be placed
   at such description of labor as requires the closest and