TARANAKI GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

76. Should he consider that sufficient attention is not paid to the cleanliness, ventilation, or order of the prison, he will be required to report accordingly to His Honor the Superintendent of the Province.

77. He will cause a correct report of the trial and punishment of offenders brought before him to be kept.

78. He will make a quarterly report to His Honor the Superintendent of the Province on the state of the establishment as it falls under his observation, together with any suggestions he may think fit as to the discipline to be enforced therein, inspecting it for this purpose with the Medical Officer.

79. Where the prisoners are employed without the precincts of the establishment, he will visit them occasionally at uncertain hours, and see that they are properly employed. Any observations he may have to make are to be noted in "The Visiting Justices’ Minute Book."

CHAPLAIN.

80. Clergymen of all denominations will be allowed to visit the prisoners at such hours as after conference with the Gaoler, may be found convenient, so as not unnecessarily to interfere with the hours of labour.

81. They may, if they wish, see any of the prisoners under their charge in private.

82. They will record their visits in the Visiting Book.

MEDICAL OFFICER.

83. The Medical Officer will visit the establishment not less than twice in each week, and, if possible, at a fixed hour, and will at such visits report to the Gaoler the case of any prisoner requiring an alteration of diet. He will also, when necessary, direct their removal to the Hospital Ward.

84. He will on these visits specially inspect the prisoners in solitary or separate confinement.

85. He will make a monthly inspection, in company with one of the Visiting Justices and the Gaoler, of the whole establishment, and will report thereon for the information of His Honor the Superintendent of the Province.

86. He will enter his visits in a book to be kept for the purpose, with any observations which he may think proper in the performance of his duty.

87. He will also enter in the English language, in a register to be kept for that purpose, an account of the state of the sick, the names of their diseases, a description of the medicines and diet prescribed, and any other treatment he may order in each case. And no medicines or medical comforts are to be issued without his order or authority.

88. His attention will be directed to the scale of diet, and he will, when necessary, increase or diminish the quantity of food with reference to the bodily health and constitution of the prisoners in separate or solitary confinement, and generally in all cases which require a relaxation of the regulation as to diet, noting, however, such changes in his Visiting Book.

89. He will direct a supply of flannel in cases in which he may consider it desirable, as well as of such articles as he may deem necessary in particular cases.

90. He will be required to give directions in writing for secluding such as have infectious complaints, or are suspected thereof; for cleansing, disinfecting, and whitewashing any apartments occupied by such prisoners; and for washing, disinfecting, or destroying, as he may think necessary, their apparel and bedding.

91. He will examine all prisoners about to be removed to any other establishment, and certify to their being in a fit state for removal.

92. Upon the death of any prisoner he will insert in his register a report of the circumstances attending the illness of such prisoner, his opinion before the Coroner as to the cause of death, and the verdict of the jury.

PRISONERS.

93. Coercive labour is the consequence of crime. Obedience is the prisoner’s first duty, and will be most rigorously enforced. Prisoners must remember that although undergoing a just punishment for their offences, it is the desire of those to whose charge they are intrusted to see them raised to a better position; and consequently, while under penal discipline, they will be afforded an opportunity for showing by industry and orderly and regular behaviour, that they have acquired such a sense of the duties owing to society, and of the obedience due to its laws, as will qualify them at the close of their term of imprisonment to enter on a new career with a fair prospect of being able to make their way in life as honest and useful men and women.

94. One uniform system of discipline will prevail. Prisoners of inferior capacity will not on that account be more rigorously dealt with than those of superior attainments, but men 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 it is possible to do so.