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61. All officers and warders are to be dressed in
    uniform, to be sworn in as constables on appointment,
    and are to be subject to such penalties and punish-
    ments by stoppage of pay and allowances for any
    dereliction of duty or misconduct as His Honor the
    Superintendent may think fit to authorize.
62. All officers and warders must attend Divine
    Service with the prisoners, or when prayers are read;
    and at school with the prisoners, in turn.
63. The use of tobacco or spirits is prohibited
    within the prison, and any officer or warder seen
    intoxicated will be severely punished.
64. In every case of emergency the officers of the
    establishment will promptly report the circumstances
    to the Gaoler; and in the event of its transpiring
    that any officer has allowed any irregularity to pass
    unreported, his neglect will be brought under the
    notice of His Honor the Superintendent of the
    Province.
65. No male officer or warder will be permitted to
    be within the precincts of the female division of the
    gaol except on duty, or when attended by the Matron,
    or a female officer.
66. All applications or representations made to
    His Honor the Superintendent must be forwarded
    through the Gaoler, who will accompany them with
    such observations as he may think fit.
67. The officers will keep watch at night, relieving
    each other as may be directed by the Gaoler. They
    should, by visits at irregular hours, observe that order
    is maintained by the prisoners, and that the warders
    are alert on their posts.
68. An officers' visiting book will be kept, in which
    will be entered the hours at which such officers
    visited the different parts of the establishment and
    the posts of the warders.
69. Officers and warders may be allowed to employ
    prisoners who are mechanics, on payment to the
    Government of an amount per diem to be fixed; but
    they must not be employed for any purpose whatever
    after the hours of labour are over.
70. Servants will be allowed to officers and warders,
    to be selected from the well-conducted prisoners
    serving short sentences.
71. Harsh or irritating language must not be
    used by any person in authority, as calmness and
    firmness will be found best calculated to ensure
    obedience. No communication is to be held with
    the prisoners excepting such as is indispensably
    necessary, and on such occasions officers and warders
    should so demean themselves as on no account to
    irritate or annoy.
72. A monthly inspection of the prisoners, prison-
    buildings, bedding, stores, &c., will be held by the
    Visiting Justice and the Medical Officer, and for
    which the officers of the establishment will have
    everything in readiness.

Visiting Justice.

73. It will be the duty of the Visiting Justice to
    visit the establishment at least twice in each week,
    on which occasions he will inspect the different
    divisions, and especially prisoners undergoing sen-
    tences of solitary confinement or who are under
    separate treatment.

74. He will not, however, be required to interfere
    with the interior discipline of the establishment; for
    which the Gaoler is held especially responsible.

75. A book will be kept, to be called "The
    Visiting Justices' Minute Book," in which the
    Visiting Justice will record all visits and observations
    made by him.

76. Should he consider that sufficient attention is
    not paid to the cleanliness, ventilation, or order of
    the prison, he will be required to report accordingly
    to His Honor the Superintendent of the Province.

77. He will cause a correct report of the trial and
    punishment of offenders brought before him to be
    kept.

78. He will make a quarterly report to His Honor
    the Superintendent of the Province on the state of
    the establishment as it falls under his observation,
    together with any suggestions he may think fit as to
    the discipline to be enforced therein, inspecting it
    for this purpose with the Medical Officer.

79. Where the prisoners are employed without the
    precincts of the establishment, he will visit them
    occasionally at uncertain hours, and see that they are
    properly employed. Any observations he may have
    to make are to be noted in "The Visiting Justices'
    Minute Book."

Chaplain.

80. Clergymen of all denominations will be allowed
    to visit the prisoners at such hours as, after confer-
    ence with the Gaoler, may be found convenient, so
    as not unnecessarily to interfere with the hours of
    labour.
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. The Medical Officer will visit the establishment
    not less than twice in each week, and, if possible, at
    a fixed hour, and will at such visits report to the
    Gaoler the case of any prisoner requiring an altera-
    tion 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 confinement.
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 of
    the Province.
86. He will enter his visits in a book to be kept
    for the purpose, with any observations which he may
    think proper 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 diet prescribed,
    and any other treatment he may order in each 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 confinement, 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 infectious com-
    plaints, or are suspected thereof; for cleansing,
    disinfecting, and whitewashing any apartments
    occupied by such prisoners; and for washing, dis-
    infecting, 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.