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of labour, there to be set to work by the
overseer, under the direction of the Super-
intendent of Public Works.

31. At 12 o'clock each hard labour pri-
    soner is to be marched back to the Gaol
    for dinner; at which meal each hard labour
    man is to receive an extra ration of ½ lb. of
    meat during his good behaviour, any in-
    attention to the rules will cause such extra
    allowance to be stopped.

32. At 1 o'clock the hard labour prisoner
    shall be marched by the overseer to the
    place of labour to resume work until 5;
    when, having carefully delivered over the
    implements in use to the custody of the
    Chief Constable, they shall be marched to
    Gaol.

33. On Wednesdays hard labour shall
    cease at 4 o'clock; and on Saturdays there
    shall be no afternoon hard labour. Such
    extra time to be employed in washing and
    mending clothes, or in rational and quiet
    conversation or reading.

34. During wet weather hard labour men
    to be employed at the discretion of the
    Gaoler on work inside the Gaol.

Convicted Prisoners not sentenced to Hard
Labour.

35. Every prisoner not sentenced to
    hard labour to take exercise two hours
    every morning and two hours every after-
    noon, under the charge of the Gaoler or an
    Overseer.

Juvenile Unconvicted Prisoners.

36. Every such prisoner to take exercise
    as by Rule 35.

37. Every such prisoner may procure
    for his own use, at his own expense, such
    articles as he may require (Spirits, Ale,
    Beer, Wine, or Tobacco excepted), and all
    such articles must be inspected on entry
    by the Gaoler; and every such prisoner
    may wear his own private apparel.

Female Convicted Prisoners.

38. Female prisoners to occupy separate
    cells, and to be kept apart from male pri-
    soners, and to be under the immediate
    custody of the Gaoler until such time as a
    matron be actually required.

39. Female prisoners to be employed in
    washing and mending, for the Gaol, under
    the direction of the Gaoler.

40. Female prisoners to exercise as by
    Rule 35, but not at the same time with
    male prisoners.

41. The other rules to be applied to
    female prisoners except in so far as ex-
    clusively applicable to male prisoners.

Juvenile Convicted Prisoners.

42. Such Juvenile prisoners to occupy
    separate cells, and to be employed on work
    about the Gaol, under the superintendence
    of Gaoler.

Cooking.

43. For the purpose of cooking the ra-
    tions for all the prisoners (convicted, un-
    convicted, or debtors), and for cooking the
    meals for the Gaoler and the Overseers,
    one cook for every six prisoners or frac-
    tional part of six shall be allowed.

44. Every cook shall be selected by the
    Gaoler, and, if possible, from prisoners
    sentenced to hard labour.

45. Every cook to prepare meals in a
    clean and proper manner, to wash up all
    plates and kitchen utensils, and to keep
    all the tables and forms in a clean and
    proper state.

46. The cooks to sweep out the entire
    Gaol and all the cells every morning.

47. The cooks to be responsible that all
    bedding or clothes hung out to dry or air
    are brought in during wet weather, if at
    the time the prisoners to whom such clothes
    or bedding belong are at hard labour.

48. The cooks to be employed during
    spare time in such work about the Gaol as
    the Gaoler may allot to them.

49. The cooks to wash the Gaol and all
    floors twice a-week in summer, and once
    a-week in winter.

50. The cooks, if not hard labour pri-
    soners, to be allowed the same extra ration
    of meat as if they were hard labour men.

Officers and Servants of the Gaol.

51. The Gaoler shall never sleep out of
    the Gaol, without a written authority from
    the Superintendent.

52. Proper Registers, Journals, Account
    Books, &c., to be kept regularly, and to
    be open to the inspection of the visiting
    Magistrates.

53. The Gaoler to read the rules to the
    prisoners on entry, and as occasion may re-
    quire.

54. The Gaoler to inforce great cleanli-
    ness throughout the entire buildings, and
    to see that the overseers enforce the same.

55. Gaoler shall daily inspect the Gaol,
    yard, doors, locks, bolts, and the bedding
    of every cell in order to see that every-
    thing is correct and clean.

56. Gaoler to see every prisoner once
    in the 24 hours.

57. Gaoler to report extreme cases of
    refractory conduct to the visiting Magi-
    strates, and to enter all inflicted punish-
    ment in the Journal, with the accompany-
    ing circumstances.

58. Gaoler to report all cases of sick-
    ness or reputed sickness to the Medical
    Officer.

59. Gaoler to give notice of death to
    Coroner; and to the relations of the de-
    ceased when the same can be ascertained.

60. Gaoler may authorise the employ-
    ment of any prisoner in the service of the
    Gaol; but not in his own service, nor in
    that of any private individual.

61. Gaoler to admonish, advise, and
    encourage prisoners, stimulating them to
    good conduct.

62. Gaoler may inflict at his own dis-
    cretion the following punishments :—he
    may stop smoking (when permitted by
    Medical Officer) for any time not exceed-
    ing 48 hours; he may reduce prisoners'
    rations to No. 1 scale, for any time not