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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35

Revoking Proclamation under "The Otago and Southland
Education Reserves Leasing Act, 1878."

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities vested
in me by "The Otago and Southland Education Reserves
Leasing Act, 1878," "The Interpretation Act, 1878," and of all
other powers and authorities enabling me in this behalf, I,
William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the Colony
of New Zealand, do hereby revoke a Proclamation issued in
respect of lands opened for leasing under the first-mentioned
Act, which said Proclamation is dated the second day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, and published in
the New Zealand Gazette of the fifth day of April, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty-three.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William
Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in
Her Majesty's Army, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable
Order of the Bath, 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 Auckland,
this eighteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.

WM. ROLLESTON,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

GENERAL.

RULES 31 and 60 of regulations published in the Gazette of
the 18th March, 1875, are hereby annulled, and the following
substituted therefor:--

31. No smoking shall be allowed to prisoners received after
    the date of this Proclamation, and no tobacco introduced for that
    purpose, except on the written recommendation of the Surgeon.

VISITS TO AND COMMUNICATIONS WITH
PRISONERS.

60. Due provision shall be made by the Gaoler for the
    admission, at proper times and under proper restrictions, of
    persons with whom prisoners before trial may desire to com-
    municate, care being taken that, so far as is consistent with the
    interests of justice, such prisoners shall see their legal advisers
    alone.

SYSTEM OF PRISON CLASSIFICATION.

Prisoners sentenced to penal servitude will be required to
pass through the following classes :--

Regulations for the Public Prisons of the Colony under
"The Prisons Act, 1882."

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by an Act of the General Assembly of New
Zealand intituled "The Prisons Act, 1882," 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 correc-
tion 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 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 disci-
pline of the convicts under sentence of penal servitude:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the
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 date of
the publication of the same in the Gazette.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William
Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in
Her Majesty's Army, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable
Order of the Bath, 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 Auckland,
this nineteenth day of April, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.

EDWD. T. CONOLLY.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

FOR PENAL SERVITUDE.
Minimum Period with Good Conduct and Industry.

1. Probation Class: One year, during which they must earn
   2,192 marks, none being credited for the first three months.
   Third Class: One year, during which they must earn 2,920
   marks.
   Second Class: One year, during which they must earn 2,920
   marks.
   After which they will be eligible for promotion to the first
   class.
2. Every prisoner is thus required to remain in the probation
   class for a minimum period of one year reckoned from the date
   of conviction, of which three months will be passed without
   any remission being granted. No gratuity will be given in this
   class.
   If his conduct and industry are good he will then be promoted
   to the third class, and so on to the second, remaining in each a
   minimum period of one year.
   The remainder of the term of his imprisonment will be spent
   in the first class, unless he is promoted to the special class, or
   degraded to any lower class.
   These classes will, as far as practicable, be kept quite separate
   from each other in prisons.
3. Prisoners sentenced to penal servitude for a less period
   than five years will serve one-fourth of their whole sentence in
   each class, instead of one year, and earn marks accordingly.
4. Prisoners in probation, third, or second classes may, for
   misconduct, be subjected to serve an additional period in the
   class in which they may then be serving, and, if in third, second,
   or first class, may be degraded to any lower class for any stated
   period, and, when so degraded, they must remain therein until
   they have earned the full number of marks allotted to such
   period, viz., the whole number of days multiplied by eight.
   Such number of marks is not however to be added to the original
   number the prisoner has to earn for remission, but it represents
   the number of marks he must earn before he can return to his
   original class.
5. Prisoners undergoing cumulative sentences will be treated
   as if sentenced to one term equal to the total award, except that
   they will serve a probation of three months without remission
   for each sentence, the probations to be consecutive at the com-
   mencement of the penal servitude.

Probation Class.
6. Prisoners in the probation class will wear the ordinary
prison-dress without any facings. They will be allowed to
receive a visit within the first month of their conviction, provided
their conduct is good, and again after they have served eight
months, their conduct being good for the three previous consecu-
tive months; and under the same conditions they will be allowed
to write and receive a letter within the first month of their con-
viction, and again after they have served eight months; the
visits to be of twenty minutes' duration. They will be allowed
one period of exercise on Sundays.

Third Class.
7. Prisoners in this class to wear the prison-dress with black
facings. To receive a visit of twenty minutes' duration, and to
write and receive a letter once in four months, provided conduct
has been good at least two previous consecutive months. To
receive a gratuity of twelve shillings, being at the rate of one
shilling per month for the time passed in this class, to be earned
by marks. To be allowed one period of exercise on Sundays.

Second Class.
8. Prisoners in the second class will wear the prison-dress with
yellow facings. They will be allowed to receive a visit of
twenty minutes' duration, and to receive and write a letter once
in three months, provided their conduct has been good for at
least two consecutive months. To receive a gratuity of eighteen