Section 48. The Superintendent may examine any person touching such offences, and determine thereupon, and punish such offences

(2) assaults or use of criminal force by any prisoner; (4) indecent or disorderly behaviour by any prisoner; (3) insulting or threatening language by any prisoner to any officer or prisoner; (6) contumaciously refusing to work; (8) idleness or negligence at work by any convicted criminal prisoner; (10) wilful damage to prison property; (1) wilful disobedience to the regulations of the prison by any prisoner; | | --- | --- | | | (2) assaults | 1870.] Prisons. 249 (5) wilfully disabling himself from labour; (7) filing or cutting irons or bars; (9) wilful mismanagement of work by any convicted criminal prisoner; (11) conspiring to escape, or to assist in escaping, or to commit any other of the offences aforesaid. 48. The Superintendent may examine any person touching such offences, and determine thereupon, and punish such offences— Superintendent's power to punish prison offenders. CHAPTER XI. PRISON OFFENCES. | List of prison offences. | 47. The following acts are declared to be offences against prison discipline:— (3) by corporal punishment not exceeding thirty stripes of a ratan; or (4) where the offender is not sentenced to rigorous imprisonment, by hard labour for any time not exceeding seven days. The Gaoler shall enter in a separate book, called the punishment-book, a statement of the nature of any offence that has been punished under this section, with the addition of the name of the offender, the date of the offence, and the amount of punishment inflicted. Such statement shall be signed by the Superintendent. (1) by imprisoning the offender in solitary confinement for any time not exceeding seven days; (2) by ordering the offender for any time not exceeding three days to close confinement, to be there kept upon a diet reduced to such extent as the Local Government shall prescribe;