NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

Now, therefore, I, Thomas Gore Browne, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby, under and by virtue of the powers in the said Act contained, and of all other powers, and authorities me enabling in this behalf, publish the following Regulations for the employment, safe custody, management and discipline of Convicts, under sentence of penal servitude, and for the other the purposes in the said Act mentioned and specified, to be in force within the Province of Wellington.

Penal Station and limits within which Convicts may be kept to hard labor.

Every male person sentenced to penal servitude within the Province of Wellington, shall during the term of his servitude be kept to hard labor within the precincts of the Gaol or on the roads or public works in the vicinity of such Gaol.

Punishment Regulations.

Every person confined within the said Gaol under authority of the said Act and who shall be guilty of any of the offences next hereinafter mentioned, that is to say:

1. Refusing or neglecting to obey the lawful orders of any Officers of the Gaol.
2. Holding or attempting to hold intercourse with others than Officers of the Gaol, without lawful permission.
3. Assaulting a prisoner.
4. Insolence to any Officer or Officers of the Gaol.
5. Destruction of the property of the Government.
6. Profane swearing or obscene language or playing at games or gambling.
7. Smoking or supplying to or leaving in the way of a prisoner, tobacco, pipes, or other articles forbidden,

shall be punishable by being placed in solitary confinement for any period not exceeding forty-eight hours and a diminution of his rations.

Every convict who shall be guilty of any of the offences next hereinafter mentioned, that is to say:

1. Attempting to escape.
2. Conniving at and concealing prisoners in attempting to escape.
3. Refusing to work when under sentence of hard labor.
4. Threatening violence to any Officer of the Gaol,

shall be punished by solitary confinement for any period not exceeding fourteen days and a diminution of his rations.

Every person who may be so confined as aforesaid and who shall be guilty of any of the offences next hereinafter mentioned that is to say:

1. Mutiny or outbreak.
2. Assaulting an Officer with an intent to do grievous bodily harm.
3. Setting on fire or attempting to set on fire the Gaol, building, or other property,

shall be punishable by solitary confinement for any period not exceeding fourteen days, at any one time, and not to be repeated at a less interval than twenty-one days.

The above punishments may be awarded and inflicted by any Visiting Justice upon due proof upon oath, of the commission of the offence in respect of which such punishment is awarded.

Every sentence of punishment awarded under the above Regulations with the nature of the offence and the name of the Visiting Justices shall be entered in the Visiting Justices’ Book, and signed by one or more of such Visiting Justices.

Duties of Warden.

The Warden of the said Gaol shall see that the Regulations are duly enforced. He is responsible for the discipline, management, and safe custody of the convicts. He will see that every officer under his charge performs his allotted duties.

He will have power in case of attempted escape or flagrant breach of discipline or of any of these Regulations to place at once in solitary confinement, and in irons if necessary, the prisoner or prisoners so offending; provided always that the same shall be reported by him within twenty-four hours to a Visiting Justice, by whom the matter shall be investigated and dealt with.

He is also to search all prisoners and take possession of for the Crown of any property found at any time in their possession. He shall cause every prisoner to be strictly searched, the irons and cells minutely examined and the names of all prisoners to be called over by the officer on duty at the time of rising in the morning and looking up at night.