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405

THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.
WELLINGTON; THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1875.

Rules for the Remission of Sentences of Prisoners
confined in Public Prisons in New Zealand.

(L.S.)
NORMANBY, Governor.
A PROCLAMATION.

W HEREAS it is expedient that the rules for the
remission of sentences of prisoners confined
in public prisons in New Zealand should be altered
and amended, and others substituted in lieu thereof:
Now therefore, I, George Augustus Constantine,
Marquis of Normanby, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of all
powers and authorities vested in me in that behalf,
do hereby make the following Rules, and do order
and direct that the same shall be in force in all the
public prisons in New Zealand on and after the first
day of August, 1875.

RULES.

1. All former rules on this subject are hereby re-
   pealed.

2. The time which every prisoner must pass in
   prison shall be represented by a certain number of
   marks, which he must earn by actual labour per-
   formed to entitle him to any remission of sentence.

3. No remission will be granted for conduct. It
   is only on condition of good conduct and strict
   obedience that prisoners will be allowed to earn by
   their industry a remission of a portion of their sen-
   tences.

4. If, therefore, their conduct is indifferent or bad,
   they will be liable to be fined a certain number of
   marks, according to the nature and degree of the
   offence, and will thus forfeit by misconduct the remis-
   sion they may have gained by their industry.

5. The scale of marks shall be,-
   Eight marks per diem for steady hard labour,
   and the full performance of the allotted task.
   Seven marks per diem for a less degree of
   industry.
   Six marks per diem for a fair but moderate day's
   work.

6. No remission will be granted for the first three
   months of a sentence, which shall be looked upon
   as a period of probation; a prisoner's marks are
   therefore to be calculated at the rate of six per diem,
   as commencing three months from the date of
   conviction : Provided that no prisoner whose conduct
   has not been good and industrious during the first
   three months of his imprisonment shall be entitled
   to marks until he has passed a further period of
   three months' probation. Should his conduct during
   this second period of probation be good and indus-
   trious, his marks shall be calculated as commencing
   six months from the date of conviction; but if not,
   the prisoner shall not be entitled to marks until his
   conduct has been reported good and industrious for
   a period of three months prior to the date from which
   they are calculated.

7. If by his industry the prisoner gains eight
   marks per diem, and does not forfeit any for mis-
   conduct, he will earn the full remission of one-fourth
   of the time for which his marks were calculated.

8. When a prisoner is sentenced to forfeiture of
   time, a number of marks equal to the number of
   days forfeited, multiplied by six, is to be added to
   the whole number of marks he has to earn; as he
   can by his industry earn eight, he may thereby gain
   a remission of one-fourth of such forfeiture.

9. Prisoners sentenced to separate confinement
   shall be credited with only six marks per diem during
   that period.

10. Prisoners in hospital shall be credited with
    only six marks per diem, which may be increased by
    special recommendation of the Gaoler to the Visiting
    Justices.

11. On Sunday marks must be allotted for conduct
    only on that day.

12. Any prisoner reported for idleness or mis-
    conduct at school will be liable, in addition to any
    other punishment, to be fined a number of marks
    proportionate to his offence.

13. The time which prisoners sentenced prior to
    the first day of August, 1875, must pass in prison
    shall be represented by marks calculated at six per
    diem, as commencing three months from the date of
    conviction. And the Visiting Justices shall, on the
    coming in force of these rules, determine, on the
    Gaoler's reports of his conduct up to that time, how

ERRATUM.-In New Zealand Gazette, No. 32, of 10th June, 1875, page 395, for "John Memyn," read "John McMyn."