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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

(1.) Repeated violations of the regulations of
the gaol;
(2.) Mutiny or outbreak;
(3.) Assaulting an officer, with intent to do
grievous bodily harm;
(4.) 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 otherwise be sentenced for such offences, be
punishable by solitary confinement for any period not
exceeding one month at any one time, or for three
months in periods of one calendar month at intervals
of at least one calendar month each, by placing in
irons, whipping, not exceeding fifty lashes at one time,
by imprisonment, not exceeding twelve calendar
months, and by diminished rations, in addition to the
original sentence of the Court by which such prisoner
was convicted.

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

131. Females guilty of repeated breaches of gaol
     regulations shall be liable to have their hair cut
     close, in addition to any other punishment to which
     they may be subject.

132. Every sentence of punishment, with the nature
     of the offence, shall be entered in the Defaulters'
     Book, and signed by the Visiting Justice.

Attempts to Escape.

133. Every prisoner leaving his allotted place while
     at work, with intent to escape, or otherwise 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 every prisoner is hereby cautioned,
     that if he makes any such attempt, he does so at his
     own risk and peril.

134. Any prisoner attempting to escape, or threat-
     ening to escape, or who, having escaped, shall be
     recaptured, shall be put in irons for safe custody for
     such time as the Visiting Justices shall direct.

135. On any prisoner passing or attempting to
     pass the prescribed limits, it is the duty of the guard
     to challenge him by his name, calling out "Stand,
     prisoner," with the prisoner's name or number. On
     this challenge being repeated twice, and the prisoner
     neglecting or refusing to stand, then it shall be
     lawful for the guard or other officer to use his
     weapons, and in case of inability to prevent his escape
     by other means, to fire on the prisoner to prevent
     his escaping.

Ministers of Religion.

136. Ministers of religion of all denominations
     may visit the gaol at such times and conduct such
     services therein as the warden may think convenient,
     he being particularly careful to see that such visits
     and services are made and conducted at such hours
     as shall not interfere with the meals or rest of the
     prisoners, nor so late in the day as to entail unne-
     cessary trouble on the officers of the prison. In case
     of any complaint arising in reference to this rule,
     the same to be referred to the Visiting Justices,
     whose decision on the matter shall be final.

SCALE OF RATIONS.

137. All rations to be according to the following
     scale :—

No. 1.—For Convicts and all Prisoners at Hard
Labour.

Bread ... ... ... ... 1 lb.
Meat ... ... ... ... 1 "
Potatoes ... ... ... ... 1 "
Sugar ... ... ... ... 2 oz.
Tea ... ... ... ... 1/4 "
Salt ... ... ... ... 1/3 "
Soap ... ... ... ... 1/2 "

No. 2.—For Prisoners not at Hard Labour.
Bread ... ... ... ... 3/4 lb.
Meat ... ... ... ... 1/2 "
Potatoes ... ... ... ... 1 1/2 "
Salt ... ... ... ... 1/2 oz.
Soap ... ... ... ... 1/2 "
Sugar ... ... ... ... 2 "
Tea ... ... ... ... 1/4 "

No. 3.—Prisoners in Solitary Confinement.
Bread ... ... ... 1 1/2 lb.
Water ad libitum.

138. Every male prisoner will be supplied with
     the following articles of clothing—viz., two cotton
     shirts, two pairs of trousers, two pairs of worsted
     stockings, one red serge shirt, one blue guernsey, one
     pair boots, one hat or cap, one rug and two blankets,
     the whole of which will be marked and numbered
     with the prisoner's number, the Government broad
     arrow (†) brand, and the letters W. G.

139. Every female prisoner will be supplied with
     two calico shifts, two calico petticoats, two flannel
     petticoats, two blue dungaree dresses, two pairs of
     worsted stockings, one pair of boots, and one white
     hood.

140. No prisoner shall be allowed to wear any
     private clothing whatever, except under-clothing by
     order of the Medical Officer, the same to be marked
     as above.

141. Each pair of trousers and boots, and each
     cotton shirt, must last six months; each serge shirt,
     guernsey, and hat or cap, twelve months.

Smoking.

142. Smoking shall only be allowed at such times
     and under such regulations as may be made by the
     Visiting Justices on that behalf.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 26th November, 1868.

THE following Despatch from Her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies
is published for general information.

E. W. STAFFORD.

Downing Street,
9th September, 1868.

SIR,—I have the honor to transmit to you a copy of
an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament,
intituled "An Act to amend the Law relating to
Medical Practitioners in the Colonies."

It is clearly desirable that those who require
medical aid in any part of Her Majesty's dominions
should be enabled to distinguish qualified from un-
qualified Practitioners, and with that view that
Colonial Legislatures should have the power to make
laws to enforce the registration of all those who
desire to practise in the several Colonies.

In more than one instance Colonial Legislatures
have passed laws to that effect; but hitherto those
laws, so far as they applied to persons who had
registered themselves under the Medical Act, 21 and
22 Vict., c. 90, were void, as being repugnant to the
provisions of the 31st section of that Act, by which
persons registered under the Act were entitled to
practise and recover their fees, in any part of Her
Majesty's dominions, without any condition being
attached to such practice.

The restriction thus imposed upon Colonial legis-
lation has now been removed.

It appeared to me, however, upon a careful con-