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ART. 74.] PLACES OF IMPRISONMENT AND REFORMATION. 835

CONVICTS

36 Convicts to be cleansed on admission, etc.
37 To be kept at hard labor
38 To be punished for offences against order
39 To be allowed to communicate in writing
to board
40 Good conduct to be encouraged by reports
to board
41. Deduction from term of sentence on ac-
count of good conduct, when deduc-
tion may be annulled.

42 Men and women to be kept separate
43 Slops and offal to be sold or used in feed-
ing stock , grounds within walls to be
cultivated, walls and houses to be
whitewashed,
44 Convicts, how fed
45 Cooking, how regulated

DIRECTORS.

46 Directors, when to meet
47 To keep minutes of proceedings
48 To direct management of prison and see
regulations enforced.
49 To prescribe rules , cbanges in rules to be

reported to governor, and confirmed by
legislature
50 Monthly committee
51 Monthly committee to report

DEPUTY KEEPERS.

52 Dudes
53 No officer to hare work done in prison
54 Deputy keepers to furnish substitutes in
absence

55 Not to use spirits, etc
56. Directors to assign them their duties.

MATRON.

57 Matron to reside in prison

58 To enforce regulations among women

PHYSICIAN.

59 Physician to visit prison daily
60 To keep journal and enter names of sick
61 To record diseases, deaths, etc
62 To procure substitute When absent
63 To have assistance when necessary
64 To examine convicts on admission

65 To make requisition on warden for neces-
saries
66 To make monthly reports to directors
67 Patients may be nursed by convicts
68 Convicts not to be discharged while sick
69 Dead bodies, how disposed of

VISITORS.

70 Who to be permitted to visit.

71. Visitors to bold no communication with
convicts

WARDEN.

72 Warden to enforce laws and regulations
73 To search convicts on admission, take
height, age, name, etc
74 To read to convicts laws relating to es-
capes, etc
75 To deliver them their property on dis-
charge
76 To take measures for their health and
cleanliness of prison
77 To prevent gaming and profanity
78 To oversee other officers
79 To designate employments of prisoners
80 To bave accounts of work kept
81 To Inspect moral conduct of prisoners.

82 To be answerable for discipline of institu-
tion
83 Not to permit prisoners to be together with-
out supervision
84 Not to encourage espionage
85 How to govern institution
86 How to punish prisoners
87 No officer to receive gratuity from con-
vict.
88 Superintendence of the financial and manu-
facturing operations , clerk
89 To examine accounts and report monthly
90 Receipts and disbursements, how made and
accounts kept.

ASSISTANT WARDEN.

91. Assistant warden to aid warden.
92. To have power of warden in warden's ab-

sence

93. To have charge of victualling depart-
ment

RULES.
94 Board of directors to make rules.

 

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