ART. 73.] PENITENTIARY. 493

CONVICTS.

36. Convicts shall be cleansed on their admission, and fur-
nished with suitable and comfortable clothing, of such pattern
and description, and to be changed as often as the directors may
designate.

37. They shall be put to hard labor every day in the year,
except Sunday and Christmas day—and when Christmas day
falls on Sunday, then the next Monday is excepted, and their
time so employed as will be most advantageous.

38. In no cases shall offences against order and discipline be
overlooked, but shall be promptly punished.

39. They shall be allowed the means of communicating, in
writing, to the board, who shall inquire into their complaints,
and give proper attention to the subject matter of their ad-
dresses.

40. Good conduct and industry shall bo encouraged by favor-
able reports to the board; but in no case shall any hope of pardon
or favor be held out to them.

41. The men and women shall always be kept separate; the
former to be locked at night separate in the east wing, and the
latter to be kept as much as possible from each other, in their
proper department.

42. The slops and offal of the prison shall be sold, or used in
raising hogs or other stock, for the use of the house; and none
of the officers shall be allowed to raise stock of any kind within
the walls. The grounds within the prison walls may be culti-
vated for the use of the prison, under the direction of the
warden, for the purpose of keeping down unhealthy exhalations
from weeds, rubbish, et cetera; the warden may keep a horse
and cow for his own use, to be attended by his own servants,
and fed at his own expense. The walls and houses must be
whitewashed at least three times a year.

43. The convicts shall have three meals a day, consisting in
all of one and a quarter pounds of flour, three quarters of a
pound of beef, or a half a pound of bacon, of good coarse quality,
one herring, one gill of molasses, one pint of potatoes or other