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SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1874.

Regulations for Dunedin Prison.

(L.S.) JAMES FERGUSSON, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly
of New Zealand intituled "The Prisons Act,
1873," it is enacted that the Governor may from
time to time, by Proclamation published in the New
Zealand Gazette, make rules as to him shall seem fit
touching the duties of the officers of public prisons,
the construction and description of cells for separate
confinement or punishment of persons confined in
public prisons, and the certifying the same as fit for
the purpose, and the safe custody, the classification,
hours of labour, mode of employment, separation,
diet, instruction, treatment, and correction of the
prisoners confined in public prisons, and for regu-
lating what labour or employment shall be deemed
hard labour, and for classifying such labour; and
generally to prescribe all such rules as may be neces-
sary for the good management and government of
such prisons, and the discipline and safe custody of
the prisoners therein, and not only while therein but
also while employed at labour beyond the limits of
the prison; and such rules may be made to apply
generally to all prisons, or to any one or more prisons
specified in any such Proclamation, as the Governor
may think fit; and the Governor may from time to
time alter or revoke any such rules as aforesaid, or
any rules, regulations, orders, or directions in force
in any prison at the commencement of the said Act:
Now therefore, I, Sir James Fergusson, Baronet,
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursu-
ance and exercise of the power and authority in me
vested in this behalf as aforesaid, do hereby make
the following Regulations for the purposes herein-
before recited, and do publish the same to be in force
within the Public Prison at Dunedin, in the Province
of Otago.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the
Right Honorable Sir James Fergusson,
Baronet, a Member of Her Majesty's
Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor
and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her
Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the
same; and issued under the Public Seal
of the said Colony, at Wellington, this
nineteenth day of February, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four.

G. MAURICE O'RORKE.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Prisoners.

1. Coercive labour is the consequence of crime.
   The first duty of the prisoner is obedience, which
   will be most rigorously enforced. Prisoners, while
   undergoing a just punishment for their offences, must
   bear in mind that it is the desire of those to whose
   charge they are intrusted to see them raised to a
   better position, and that consequently, while under-
   going 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 labour as requires the
   closest and most unvarying attention, and will be
   kept apart in the prison when possible.

3. All prisoners on entering the gaol shall be
   searched in the presence of an officer, and all articles
   taken from them.

4. They will then be required to thoroughly wash
   themselves before they put on the prison clothing,
   &c., and if sentenced for a longer period than one
   week their hair will be cut short, and their whiskers
   and beard shaved.

5. A list of their clothes, with all money and other