Num. 17. 195

THE

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1875.

Regulations for the Public Prisons of the Colony under “The Prisons Act, 1873.”

(L.S.) NORMANBY, 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 regulating what labour or employment shall be deemed hard labour, and for classifying such labour; and generally to prescribe all such rules as may be necessary 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:

And whereas it is further provided by the said Act that the Governor may, in addition to any regulations made thereunder, from time to time make any such rules as to him shall seem fit, specially applying to prisoners under sentence of penal servitude, touching the employment, safe custody, management, and discipline of the convicts under sentence of penal servitude:

Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in me vested in this behalf as aforesaid, do hereby make the following Regulations for the purposes hereinbefore recited, and do publish the same to be in force within the public prisons of the colony from the first day of April next.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Most Honorable George Augustus Constantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mulgrave of Mulgrave, all in the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom; and Baron Mulgrave of New Ross, in the County of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland; a Member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council; Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; 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 Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House at Wellington, this seventeenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

CHARLES C. BOWEN.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

General.

1. The prison shall be kept in a cleanly state, and the walls and ceilings of the wards, cells, rooms and passages used by the prisoners throughout every prison shall either be painted with oil or be lime-washed, or partly painted and partly lime-washed. Where painted with oil, the painting shall be washed with hot water and soap once at least in every six months. Where lime-washed, the lime-washing shall be renewed once at least in every six months. The day-rooms, work-rooms, passages, and sleeping cells shall be washed or cleansed once a week, or oftener if requisite.

2. Nothing shall be allowed to grow against the outer walls of the prison, nor any rubbish or other articles to be laid against them; nor shall any tools or implements of any kind likely to facilitate escape be left unnecessarily exposed.