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as aforesaid shall come into operation until a copy thereof shall have been first published in the “Government Gazette.”

Now, therefore, I, Sir George Grey, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, under and by virtue of the provisions in the said Ordinance and Act respectively contained, do hereby make the following regulations for the purposes hereinafter recited, and do publish the same to be in force within the Province of Southland.

As witness my hand, this seventeenth day of August, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.

G. Grey.

By His Excellency’s command,
Alfred Domett.

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE GAOL AT INVERCARGILL.

1. Every person entering the Gaol as prisoner is to be searched in the presence of the Gaoler and of the officer in whose charge he is brought into the Gaol. His name, age, religion, country, height, and general description, and whether he can read and write are to be entered into a book kept for the purpose.

2. All money, property, and effects, are to be taken from the prisoner on entering the Gaol; a true list specifying the particulars, and certified by the Gaoler, shall be entered in a book kept for the purpose, and such property shall be kept in charge of the Gaoler until the discharge of the prisoner, unless other disposition thereof shall be ordered or permitted by competent authority.

3. All persons entering the Gaol as prisoners shall be obliged to wash themselves thoroughly, and shall have their hair cut close if the same be found necessary for the purposes of cleanliness.

4. Prisoners sentenced for a shorter period than one week shall have their hair cut close if it shall be found necessary for the purposes of cleanliness.

5. Every cell to be opened at 6 a.m. from the last day of September to the last day of April and at daylight during the remainder of the year.

6. Prisoners on rising to wash and cleanse themselves and fold up their bedding.

7. Prisoners, whether permitting to suspended their bedding in the airing yard, shall do so twice a week.

8. Fifteen minutes to be allowed for dressing.

9. Prisoners having washed and dressed themselves, and the roll having been called, prayers are to be read to them by the Gaoler or by such other person as the Superintendent may appoint.

10. After prayers, breakfast; at noon, dinner; at a quarter past five, supper; at which meals each prisoner shall appear with clean hands and face.

11. Each prisoner to be furnished with a Bible and prayer book and other proper books, and such prisoners as may be allowed to read such books as may be approved of by the Visiting Justices for the space of one hour after which prayers are to be read as in the morning and the prisoners are to be locked into their appointed cells for the night.

12. All the cells to be thoroughly searched before the prisoners are locked up for the night; the prisoners to be thoroughly searched before they are locked into the cells, and at any other time that the Gaoler may consider advisable.

13. Every prisoner is to receive notice from the Gaoler the morning before his discharge and every prisoner before leaving is to deliver to the Gaoler the two suits of clothing received on entry in a clean and neat state to be strictly searched by the Gaoler and to be put in possession of all effects taken from him on committal and if not taken away by him the same may be disposed of in such manner as the Visiting Justices may direct.

Labour.

14. From 1st day of October to the last day of April the hours for labour shall be from half past seven a.m. to 4 p.m. From the 1st day of April to 1st day of October from eight a.m. to five p.m. One hour’s cessation for dinner.

15. On Saturdays the day’s labour shall cease at noon; the afternoon to be spent by the prisoners in washing and mending their clothes and cleaning the prison.

16. During wet weather the hard labour men to be employed inside the Gaol.

17. On Sundays every prisoner shall attend at the services held by clergymen visiting the prison or if there be no visiting clergyman or clergymen, by any person appointed by the Superintendent for that purpose.