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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

3. Thermometers shall be placed in different parts
   of the prison.
4. No person shall be permitted to sleep in the
   apartments of any subordinate officer of the prison
   without permission from the Gaoler; such permission
   to be reported to a Visiting Justice.
5. A report shall be made to the Gaoler at 10
   o'clock each night, whether the officers resident in the
   prison are all present; and no ingress or egress shall
   be allowed into or out of the prison between the
   hours of 10 o'clock at night and 6 o'clock in the
   morning, except to the Gaoler and his family, or
   Surgeon, or in special cases which shall be entered
   in the journal of the Gaoler.

PRISONERS.
General.

6. One uniform system of discipline will prevail.
   Criminal prisoners of inferior mental capacity will not
   be more rigorously dealt with than those of superior
   attainments; but those 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.

7. Prisoners 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.

8. Prisoners are at all times and in all places to
   conduct themselves with propriety, and silence must
   be strictly observed by them when marching to and
   from their places of labour.

9. 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.

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

11. 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 pros-
    pect of death, &c.

12. Sunday must be kept as a day of rest; and
    whenever a clergyman or other minister of religion
    does not attend the prison on that day, prayers shall
    be read by an officer of the gaol..

13. 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 Sunday.

14. Each prisoner shall 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 shall also be provided for prisoners'
    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.

15. Prisoners behaving in a refractory manner shall
    be brought before a Visiting Justice, who will inflict
    such lawful punishment as the case may demand;
    and all such prisoners may be placed in separate con-
    finement, and if necessary in irons, pending the
    arrival of the Visiting Justice.

16. Gaming, dancing, swearing, and singing are
    strictly prohibited.

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

18. Any prisoner sleeping out of his own berth
    shall be punished for misconduct.

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

20. There shall 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.

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

Admission and Discharge of Prisoners.

22. Prisoners on admission shall be searched, and
    all dangerous weapons, anything calculated to facili-
    tate escape, and prohibited articles, shall be taken
    from them.

23. No prisoner shall be stripped to be searched in
    the presence of any other prisoner.

24. All money or other effects brought into the
    prison by any prisoner, or sent to the prison for his
    use, which he is not allowed to retain, shall be placed
    in the custody of the Gaoler, who shall keep an
    inventory of them in a separate book.

25. The name, age, height, weight, features, particular
    marks and general appearance of a prisoner, shall,
    upon his admission, be noted in a nominal record
    of prisoners to be kept by the Gaoler. Every
    prisoner shall also as soon as possible be examined
    by the Surgeon, who shall enter in a book to be
    kept by the Gaoler a record of the state of health
    of the prisoner, and any observations he may deem
    it expedient to add.

26. All prisoners, whose sentences exceed seven
    days, previously to being removed to any other prison
    or being discharged from prison, shall be examined
    by the Surgeon; and no prisoner shall be removed
    to any other prison unless the Surgeon certifies by
    an entry in the nominal record that the prisoner is
    free from any illness that renders him unfit for
    removal; and no prisoner shall be discharged from
    prison if labouring under any acute or dangerous
    distemper, nor until in the opinion of the Surgeon
    such discharge is safe, unless such prisoner require
    to be discharged. Nothing in this clause shall be
    deemed to prohibit the removal of any prisoner to
    any hospital or infirmary.

27. Prisoners before trial shall be kept apart from
    convicted prisoners, and, so far as practicable,
    juveniles under the age of eighteen years of age from
    adults, and adult male felons from misdemeanants.

28. Female prisoners shall be searched on admis-
    sion by female officers. In other respects the same
    course shall be pursued in reference to the admission,
    removal, or discharge of a female prisoner as in the
    case of a male prisoner, the Matron performing the
    duties imposed on the Gaoler in case of a male
    prisoner.

29. If unconvicted prisoners shall be discharged,
    the property taken from them shall be restored, if
    not retained under legal advice. If they are ad-
    mitted to bail, such property as may be directed by
    the magistrate admitting to bail, shall be retained
    until they are discharged.

Food, Clothing, and Bedding of Prisoners.

30. No fermented or spirituous liquors of any
    kind shall be sold or supplied to or be admitted
    for the use of any of the prisoners in any prison
    under any pretence whatever, unless by a written
    order of the Surgeon, specifying the quantity to be
    admitted and the name of the prisoner for whose
    use it is intended; but this regulation shall not apply
    to any stock of fermented or spirituous liquors