THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1837.

Judge of a Court of Record, Attorney General, or one

of his deputies, members of a city corporation in the
State, or Sheriffs, or Grand Jurors. Visiters shall
hold no communication with the convicts, except by
permission, and in the presence of an officer, nor re-
ceive nor give any thing from or to them. And the
practice of visiting the convicts shall be discounte-
nanced as much as possible.

CHAP. 320.

Article eleventh. — Convicts. — The Convicts shall be
cleansed on their admission, and furnished with suit-
able and comfortable clothing of such pattern and de-
scription, and to be changed as often as the Directors

Persons.

may designate. They shall be put to hard labor every
day in the year, except Sunday and Christmas day,
and when Christmas falls on Sunday, then the next
Monday, and their time so employed as to be most ad-

Labour.

vantageous. In no cases shall offences against order
and discipline be overlooked, but shall be promptly
punished. They shall he allowed the means of com-
municating in writing to the Board, who shall inquire
into their complaints and give proper attention to the

Breach of disci-
pline.

subject matter of their addresses. Good conduct and
industry shall be encouraged by favorable reports to
the Board; but in no case shall any hope of pardon or

Conduct.

favor be held out to them. 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 pro-

Sexes separate.

per department. The slops and offal of the prison
shall be sold, or used in raising hogs or other stock,

Off-all.

for the use of the house; and none of the officers shall
be allowed to raise stock of any kind within the walls.
The ground within the prison walls may be cultivated
for the use of the prison, under the direction of the
Wardens, for the purpose of keeping down unhealthy

Restriction.

exhalations from weeds, rubbish, et cetera. The War-
den may keep a horse and cow for his own use, to be
attended by his own servants and fed at his own ex-
pense. The walls and houses must be whitewashed at

Warden's
house and cow.

least three times a year. 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

Meals prescrib-
ed.