Rule as to Gratuities to Prisoners (s. 10). Prisons. No. 9 of 1876. 1. The Sheriff is hereby authorized to allow a sum not exceeding 2s. 6d. to a deserving and necessitous prisoner on his discharge, after Gratuities on completing a term of imprisonment of not less than six months and not more than two years. 2. The above rule shall apply to the prisons at Accra and Elmina only. Made 14 July, 1897 (see Gazettes, p. 241). Rules as to Prison Diet (r. 22 of Sched. 1). 1. Convicted prisoners shall receive the diet appropriate to their sex, age, and sentence, set forth in the "dietary scale "attached. 2. Prisoners awaiting trial, on remand, for want of sureties and for contempt of Court, who do not provide themselves with food, shall be allowed No. 3 diet provided by the said scale. 3. The medical officer may for good and sufficient cause, in special cases direct that any prisoner be allowed a higher class of diet than that appropriate to his sentence, or he may order an extra allowance of kenki, cassada, or rice, provided that in each case he shall record his directions as to quantity, the period for which it is to be given, and the reason thereof, in the prisoners' medical journal. 4. Fresh fish may occasionally be given in lieu of salt fish by direction of the medical officer. 5. Prisoners undergoing medical treatment in the prison infirmary shall be given the infirmary diet provided by the said scale, unless otherwise ordered by the medical officer in special cases. The medical officer shall specify in writing what class of infirmary diet in this scale a prisoner under treatment in the infirmary is to receive and any change ordered by him therein. 6. The medical officer shall have power to order any extras such as brandy, or wine, that he may find necessary for any prisoner in the infirmary, provided that in each case he shall give written directions as to the quantity to be given and the hours of administration. 7. No extra diet shall be given to any prisoner not under treatment in the infirmary except under rule 3 hereof. Where there is no infirmary ward in connection with the prison, a prisoner may, at the discretion of the medical officer, be deemed to be an infirmary patient and treated accordingly. 8. A prisoner ordered to be kept upon reduced diet for an offence against prison discipline, shall have substituted for the ordinary prison food, the "punishment" diet provided by the said scale, unless otherwise ordered by the medical officer. 9. No prisoner shall be kept upon reduced diet under regulations 65 and 66 (see Schedule 1 of Prison Ordinance, 1876) for a longer period than shall be authorized by the medical officer, unless such period shall not exceed two days, when no such authority shall be necessary. 10. These regulations shall not apply to European prisoners, who shall receive the European diet provided by the said scale and such extras as may be ordered by the medical officer. 11. West Indians and Kroo men shall receive the diet provided for them respectively by the said scale.* Made 10 Jany. 1898 (see Gazettes, p. 14). * It is assumed that these rules supersede the scales of diet made 12 Nov. 1897, for the prisons at Ada and Tarkwa. discharge. Diet. 4 A 2 All native prisoners be allowed 10 ozs. of boiled akassa every morning, to be taken before the day's work is begun. 1. Prisoners sentenced to seven days and under, No. 1 diet, without fish or meat. 2. Do. do. to more than seven days and not more than one month, No. I. diet. 5. In the case of Kroo men rice to be substituted for kenki at the following rate :-No. I., lb.; No. II., 1 lb. ; No. III., 1 lb. ; punishment, lb. ; infirmary, full, 1 lb; low lb. Prisons. Labour of Prisoners not Ordered to be kept to Hard Labour (r. 43). No. 9 of 1876. Prisoners who are not ordered to be kept to hard labour shall be Labour of employed in some one or more of the following employments:-Mat- prisoners not making, rope-making, net-making, basket-making, tailoring and ordered to be kept to hard sewing, washing clothes and household linen, cleaning and white- labour. washing the prison in which they are confined, and any such similar services as the visiting committee of such prison may from time to time determine. The Sheriff shall assign to every such prisoner any one or more of such employments as may be best adapted to his skill, ability and strength, and may vary such assignment from time to time as he may see fit. The said prisoners shall be kept employed for not more than ten nor less than six hours a day, unless the medical officer directs any individual prisoner to be employed for a shorter period, when such prisoner shall be employed for so long as the medical officer shall direct and no longer. Rule made 26 Oct. 1883. Hard Labour of the first class (r. 35). be first-class Whereas by rule 35 of the 1st schedule of "The Prisons Ordinance, Crank and 1876," it is provided that hard labour of the first class shall consist of treadmill to shot drill, stone breaking, stone carrying, or such other like description labour. of labour as may be appointed by any order of the Governor in Council. Now, in pursuance of the herein before recited authority in that behalf, working at the crank or on the treadmill is hereby appointed a description of hard labour of the first class, and it is hereby ordered that prisoners liable to be kept to hard labour of the first class may be employed on the crank or on the treadmill in addition to, or in lieu of, the descriptions of hard labour of the first class to which they are now liable. Made 26 March, 1885 (see Gazettes, p. 72). to be first The Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, doth order, Roadappoint and direct that working at road-making and mending, water making, &c. carrying and other transport services, scavenger's work of all kinds, class labour. oakum and fibre picking, stone blasting and quarrying, cement grinding, clearing, levelling and digging ground, and other unskilled labour with spade, mattock, hammer or pickaxe, shall be forms of hard labour of the first class; and further, that prisoners liable to hard labour of the first class may be employed at such labour as is hereinbefore ordered to be hard labour of the first class in addition to, or in lieu of, the hard labour to which they are now liable, and that the said prisoners shall be kept employed for nine and a half hours per day. Made 23 March, 1896 (see Gazettes, p. 111). Hard Labour of second class (r. 35). The Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, doth order Carpentry, and appoint that working at carpenters' and joiners' work, tailoring &c. to be and all kinds of sewing, boot and shoe making and mending, and labour. other work in leather, masons' and bricklayers' work, coopering, mat, second-class Prisons. net, rope, basket making and weaving and other skilled labour that No. 9 of 1876. the convicts may be found competent of, and the service of the prison, Hard labour. court houses and other public buildings shall be forms of hard labour of the second class; and further, that prisoners ordered, or liable to be kept to hard labour of the second class, may be employed at such labour as is herein before ordered to be hard labour of the second class, and that the said prisoners shall be kept employed for nine and a half hours per day. Made 23 March, 1896 (see Gazettes, p. 111). Removal of prisoners. ACCRA Do. SALT POND................... Building used as prison Building used as prison......... Building used as prison at Akuse ... Oct. 23, 1889. Order as to Place of Imprisonment of Prisoners (s. 7). Under sect. 7 of the Prisons Ordinance, 1876, the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, doth hereby order that all prisoners sentenced to serve a term of imprisonment exceeding three months may, at the discretion of the Sheriff, be conveyed to serve their respective terms of imprisonment at Accra, Elmina, or Cape Coast Prison. Made 12 Nov. 1897 (see Gazettes, p. 528). Customs. Lading and unlading at sufferance wharves. CUSTOMS. No. 10-1876. Regulations for Lading or Unlading Cargo at 1. Every master of a ship who intends to proceed to any sufferance wharf for the purpose of lading or unlading cargo thereat, shall give notice of such intention to the District Commissioner of the district in which the sufferance wharf is situated; or in case the course of his voyage be such as to bring him to the sufferance wharf before reaching the station of such District Commissioner, then he may give the notice to the District Commissioner of the district whose station he shall pass next before reaching the sufferance wharf. 2. The District Commissioner to whom the notice is given shall place an officer on board the ship, who shall have the superintendence of the Customs. lading or unlading of cargo at the sufferance wharf, and no goods shall be either laden or unladen except in his presence and under his No. 10 of 1876. superintendence. wharves. Lading and 3. The master of the ship shall provide such officer of Customs unlading at with sufficient room under the deck, in some part of the cabin, sufferance forecastle or steerage, for his bed or hammock, and with sufficient food during the whole time he shall be on board; or in place of providing food, he may with the consent of the District Commissioner putting the officer on board, pay to the said officer such sum in lieu of rations not exceeding two shillings a day as such District Commissioner shall determine. 4. The master of the ship after having finished the lading or unlading of goods at the sufferance wharf, shall reconvey the officer of Customs to the port at which he was placed on board his ship and land him there, or if the course of his voyage does not lead him direct to such port, he shall land him at the sufferance wharf, and defray the expenses of his travelling overland from the sufferance wharf to the said port, including the expenses of conveyance by hammock, unless the District Commissioner putting the officer on board should have previously dispensed with hammock conveyance. The District Commissioner may, if he thinks fit, require a sum to be deposited with him in advance sufficient for defraying these expenses, or in lieu thereof, a written guarantee for payment by the consignee or agent of the ship resident within the jurisdiction. 5. Where goods are to be unladen at a sufferance wharf the entries (inwards) of such goods shall as far as practicable be made with the District Commissioner to whom the notice is given as aforesaid, and the duties of importation thereon shall be paid to him; but in case after arrival at the sufferance wharf any other goods are desired to be landed than were anticipated at the time of making such entries, the entries for such other goods may be made with the officer on board, and the duties thereon shall be paid to him. 6. Where goods are to be laden at a sufferance wharf the entries of such goods shall in like manner as far as practicable be made with the District Commissioner, and shall invariably be so made in case of lading any dutiable or duty paid goods, and only entries of palm oil and other African produce may be made with the officer on board. Made 11 Feby. 1878. Rule as to Removal from or Putting into Warehouse Goods on which £5 duty. Whenever any person shall require the service of any Customs Goods under officer to visit and open any warehouse, and shall not take out of, or shall not put into, such warehouse, goods, on which the duty amounts to £5 or upwards, the collector or other proper officer of Customs shall demand and receive from such person for each hour, or portion of an hour, during which the services of such Customs officer shall be required, the sum of 2s. 6d., which shall be paid into the Treasury for the use of the Colony. Made 12 March, 1887 (see Gazettes, p. 40). |