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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

PRISONERS.
General.

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 entrusted to see them raised to a better
    position, and consequently, while undergoing penal
    discipline, they will be afforded an opportunity of
    showing, by industry and orderly and regular beha-
    viour, 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 imprisonment, 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 inferior capacity will not on that
    account be more rigorously dealt with than those of
    superior attainments; but men of a restless disposi-
    tion will be placed at such description of labour as
    requires the closest and most unvarying attention,
    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 thoroughly 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 con-
    stantly at labour. No relaxation of such labour
    will be permitted until the prisoner shall have com-
    pleted 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 regularity, and
     silence must be strictly observed when marching to
     and from their places of labour; at no time is any
     conversation to be permitted beyond what is abso-
     lutely necessary.

101. Prisoners having any matter to represent or
     complain of, must address themselves to the gaoler,
     whose duty it will be to see justice done to them.
     They are not, however, precluded from addressing
     themselves to the Visiting Justices, but they should
     remember that for making idle or frivolous com-
     plaints they will render themselves liable to punish-
     ment.

102. They must appear on all occasions clean in
     person and in dress; their clothing and bedding will
     be marked with a number, and should any of these
     articles be wilfully damaged, or lost through careless-
     ness, they will be severely punished.

103. They shall attend Divine Service of the
     denomination to which they belong at the appointed
     times, and shall behave themselves with the greatest
     propriety.

104. The religious denomination of each prisoner
     is to be determined by his voluntary statement upon
     his receipt into the prison; and no prisoner is to be
     allowed to hold intercourse with a clergyman of a
     different denomination, unless extraordinary circum-
     stances should require it, such as the immediate
     prospect of death, &c.

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stances should require it, such as the immediate
prospect of death, &c.
105. The Sunday must be kept holy and as a day
of rest, and whenever a clergyman or other member
of religion does not attend the prison on that day,
prayers will be read by an officer of the gaol.
106. Any prisoner who is a Jew is not to be com-
pelled to labour on his Sabbath, but may be
employed on any necessary duty on the Christian
Sabbath.
107. Each prisoner will be provided with a Bible
and a Prayer Book approved of by the religious
denomination to which he belongs, and books of a
secular character will also be provided for their
instruction, such books shall not be defaced or
damaged, and any wilful defacing or damaging of
such books shall be deemed a breach of this regula-
tion, and punished accordingly.

108. Prisoners behaving in a refractory manner
     will be brought before the Visiting Justice, who
     will inflict such lawful punishment as the case may
     demand. They will on all such occasions be placed
     in separate confinement to await trial, and if
     necessary in irons.

109. They are not to have in their possession any
     article of food, clothing, &c., except such as shall
     have been issued to them and sanctioned by the
     medical officer or gaoler; all articles of luxury, such
     as tobacco, are strictly prohibited.

110. Gaming, dancing, swearing, immoral songs
     and conversation, are strictly prohibited.

111. Prisoners must not leave their place of work
     without authority.

112. Any prisoner sleeping out of his own berth
     will be punished for misconduct.

113. Prisoners are not to be allowed to send or
     receive any letters oftener than once in three months
     except through the gaoler, who will inspect them,
     and exercise his own discretion as to their delivery;
     and they must not hold any communication whatever
     with any person without his authority. They may,
     however, if well conducted, be permitted to see their
     friends on the first Thursday in each quarter.

114. Any prisoner conniving at a breach of the
     regulations will be considered as an accessory, and
     be punished for misconduct.

115. A copy of the regulations will be suspended
     in each ward, and they will be read to them, or, if
     necessary, explained, once a month.

116. There will also be suspended in each ward a
     list of the names of all prisoners belonging to it, in
     which will be noted the offence, sentence, and date of
     reception into the establishment, and a record of
     conduct whilst therein.

117. They are to be shaved on Tuesdays and Satur-
     days, to wash their feet on the latter day, and to put
     on clean shirts on Wednesdays and Sundays.

118. Prisoners about to be discharged will be
     allowed to let their hair grow for a month previous,
     and on the day of discharge shall deliver to the
     gaoler the prison clothing in their possession in a
     clean and neat state, and will be placed in possession
     of all effects taken from them on committal.

119. Every prisoner not employed at hard labour
     shall exercise for two hours every morning and
     for two hours every afternoon, weather permitting.

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement or Separate
Confinement.

120. Every prisoner before being placed in a cell
     must be strictly searched.

121. He is then to be shown the cell and caused
     to examine it carefully, in order that any marking or
     defacing may be at once thereafter detected.

122. Prisoners undergoing separate treatment are