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with the prisoner’s number, the Government’s broad arrow (✠) brand, and the letters W.G.

No prisoner will be allowed to wear any private clothing whatever except under clothing by order of the Medical Officer. The same to be marked as above.

Each pair of trousers and boots and each cotton shirt must last six months.
Each serge shirt and hat or cap twelve months.

Washing.

Each prisoner to have one clean shirt twice a-week. Trousers to be washed once every month. Blankets and rugs every three months.

Prisoners to have their hair cut close once a month and to be close shaved twice a-week.

Rations.

Each prisoner will be entitled to the following scale of Rations daily.

No. 1 Class.

• 1 lb. fresh meat, 1 lb. potatoes, 1 lb. bread, ½ oz. soap, ¼ oz. tea, ½ oz. salt, and 2 oz. sugar.

No. 2 Class.

• ¾ lb. bread, ½ lb. potatoes, 4 lb. fresh meat, ½ oz. soap, ¼ oz. salt.

Prisoners in solitary confinement 1½ lb. bread, water ad libitum.

As witness under my hand this thirty-first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.

Thomas Gore Browne.

By His Excellency’s command,

Henry John Tancred.

RULES FOR DEBTORS’ PRISONS.

NEW ZEALAND TO WIT.

20th May, A.D. 1859.

WHEREAS by “An Ordinance for the Regulation of Prisons,” passed on the 16th day of October, A.D. 1846, sec. 6, the Judges of the Supreme Court are empowered to make rules and regulations for the management of such gaols as then were or might thereafter be used for the imprisonment of debtors, and for the control of the debtors therein;

And whereas, it is expedient that some such rules should be made; but it appears that the condition of the existing prisons of the Colony will not, at present, permit of a distinct and separate set of rules for debtors being enforced;

It is ordered by the Judges of the Supreme Court as follows:—

1. The debtors in any such gaol shall be kept, if possible, consistently with the resources of the gaol, quite separate from all felons and misdemeanants undergoing their sentences, and all persons waiting for trial, and all lunatics; and if such complete separation be impossible, the intercourse of such debtors with such criminals, persons waiting for trial, or lunatics, shall be prevented by the gaoler as much as possible.

2. In respect of diet, exercise, and prison discipline, debtors shall, in the meantime, be put on the same footing as first class misdemeanants; not sentenced to hard labour, in any gaol in the Province.

3. All such facilities shall be given by the gaoler for enabling debtors to work at any trade or employment with which they may be conversant, as the circumstances of the gaol will permit.

4. The gaoler shall forthwith transmit to the Judge of the Supreme Court, acting in the district within which the gaol is situated, any complaint or petition which any such debtor may wish to present to such Judge.

5. The Judge of the district within which any such gaol is situated, may make any special order as to all or any one of the debtors imprisoned in any such gaol, consistent with the condition and resources of the gaol, and not inconsistent with these rules, as he may think fit.

6. A copy of these rules, and of the rules respecting such first class misdemeanants as above mentioned, shall be posted in some part of the gaol where each debtor imprisoned in the same may be able to see them.

(Signed)

George Alfred Arney, C.J.
Alexander J. Johnston,
Henry Barnes Gresson.