FORM B. Order on Keeper of Prison. In the Supreme Court of the Colony of Lagos. To Y. Z. keeper of the prison at Whereas A. B., now in your custody, has been charged before this Court for that he (state offence shortly). These are therefore to command you to bring the said A. B. before the Court at on at o'clock in the forenoon, that the said charge may be duly inquired into. Given at this day of Signature of Judge or Commissioner. 18. ORDERS and RULES under Ordinance No. 9 of 1876. 10th day of December, 1881. Palma and Whereas by the Prisons Ordinance, 1876, it is amongst other Lock-up things enacted, that the Governor in Council may, by order houses at published in the Gazette, declare any buildings within the Leckie limits in the said Ordinance stated to be a prison under the declared said Ordinance, and by the same or any subsequent order, declare prisons. the province, district or place for which any such building shall be used for the purposes of a prison, and that every prison shall include any lock-up house or place of security which may be sanctioned by any order as aforesaid, for the temporary detention or custody of prisoners newly apprehended or under remand, or awaiting trial, and be in such order declared to form a part of such prison. Now, the Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, and by virtue of the authority committed to him by the said recited Ordinance, doth order and it is hereby ordered, that the following premises at the district hereinafter mentioned shall be prisons under the said Ordinance, viz.: All that messuage or tenement in Leckie, in the Eastern District of the Colony hitherto used as a prison, and known as the Leckie prison, with the courtyard and all the out-buildings within the curtilage of the same. All that messuage or tenement in Palma, in the Eastern District of the Colony, hitherto used as a prison, and known as the Palma prison, with the courtyard and all the out-buildings within the curtilage of the same. And it is also ordered, that the said respective premises may at Labour of prisoners not ordered to be kept to hard labour. Hard labour all times be used as places of temporary detention or custody of prisoners in transit in any direction to or from other districts. 26th day of October, 1883. Whereas by the "Prisons Ordinance, 1876," it is enacted, inter alia, that provision shall be made by the Governor by Order in Council for the employment of prisoners not ordered to be kept to hard labour; Now, the Governor, in pursuance of the herein-before recited authority in that behalf, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, doth order and it is hereby ordered as follows: Prisoners who are not ordered to be kept to hard labour shall be employed in some one or more of the following employments :Mat-making, rope-making, net-making, basket-making, tailoring and sewing, washing clothes and household linen, cleaning and whitewashing 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. 26th day of March, 1885. Whereas by Rule 35 of the 1st Schedule of the "Prisons Ordiof first class. nance, 1876," it is provided that hard labour of the first class shall consist of shot drill, stone breaking, stone carrying, or such other like description of labour as may be appointed by any order of the Governor in Council. Cells at Court House, Tinubu Square, declared prisons. 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. 17th day of June, 1886. Whereas by the Ordinance No. 9 of 1876, entitled The Prisons Ordinance, it is amongst other things enacted that the Governor in Council may by order published in the Gazette declare any building within the limits of the Colony to be a Prison under the said Ordinance, and by the same or any subsequent Order declare the province, district or place for which any such building shall be used for the purposes of a Prison, and it is further enacted that every Prison shall include any lock-up house or place of security which may be sanctioned by any Order of the Governor in Council, for the temporary detention or custody of prisoners newly apprehended or under remand or awaiting trial and be in such Order declared to form part of such Prison: Now the Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, and in virtue of the authority committed to him by the said recited Ordinance doth order and it is hereby ordered that the Two Cells situate on the east and west sides of the Public entrance to the Court House, in Tinubu Square, shall form a part of the Prison of Lagos, for the temporary detention or custody of Prisoners newly apprehended or under remand or awaiting trial from whatsoever place any such prisoner may have been brought. 24th day of March, 1887. The following Scales of Diet shall obtain in the Prison at Lagos Prisoners' until further order: I. Scale of Diet for European Prisoners. 1 lb. of Beef and 1 lb. of Rice, or 1 lb. of Beef and 2 lbs. II. Ordinary Scale of Diet for Native Prisoners. diet and prison requisitions. Salt 3 drams, Yams 3 lbs, Sunday. Rice 1 lb, Salt 3 drams, pepper 1 drm, C. pepper 1 drm, C. pepper 1 drm, C. pepper 1 drm, C. pepper 1 drm, C. pepper 1 drm, C. pepper 1 drm, Ogiri 2 drams, Ogiri 2 drams, Ogiri 2 drams, Ogiri 2 drams, Ogiri 2 drams, Ogiri 2 drams, Ogiri 2 drams, Fish oz. Fishoz. Fishoz. Fishoz. Fishoz. III. Scale of Light or Agidi Diet for Native Prisoners. The same as Scale II., but 6 balls of 70 cowry agidi (the balls to average 13 oz.), instead of Farina, Rice, or Yams. IV. Scale of Punishment or Reduced Diet for Males and Females undergoing Hard Labour. Contagious Diseases Hospital declared a prison. Further Regulations. 1. Requisitions upon the contractor shall be made each day in respect of the articles required for the following day. 2. All such requisitions shall be in writing. 3. Separate requisitions shall be made for ordinary articles of diet and for articles of diet specially ordered by the Medical Officer. 4. Requisitions for ordinary articles of diet shall be signed by the Keeper of the Prison or, in his absence, the next senior prison officer available. 5. Requisitions for articles of diet specially ordered by the Medical Officer shall be signed by that officer. 6. Palm oil required for purposes of cooking and diet, and palm oil required for lights, shall form the subjects of separate requisitions, and shall be kept distinct. 2nd day of March, 1889. Whereas under and by virtue of Ordinance No. 9 of 1876 the Governor in Council may, by order published in the Government Gazette, declare any building within the Colony to be a prison under the said first named Ordinance and by the same or any subsequent order declare the area for which any such building shall be used for the purposes of a prison; And whereas under or by virtue of the said recited Ordinances, the Governor in Council may, either for effecting the separation of different classes of prisoners, or for other reasons from time to time by any order published in the Government Gazette appropriate particular prisons to particular classes of prisoners; And whereas it is expedient that the buildings known as the Contagious Diseases Hospital as situate at Koko-maiko in the town of Lagos or the immediate neighbourhood thereof be declared a prison under the said Ordinance No. 9 of 1876 and used as such for the whole Colony and be appropriated to lepers; Now therefore I, Cornelius Alfred Moloney, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Lagos, with the advice of the Executive Council, do hereby declare the said buildings known as the Contagious Diseases Hospital to be a prison under the said Ordinance No. 9 of 1876; And I do also hereby declare that the said buildings known as the Contagious Diseases Hospital shall be used as a prison for the whole Colony of Lagos; And I do furthermore hereby appropriate the use as a prison of the said buildings known as the Contagious Diseases Hospital to lepers. 2nd day of March, 1889. Whereas under or by virtue of the Prisons Ordinance No. 9 of Ebute Ero 1876, the Prison of Lagos is a prison within the meaning of the and Tappa said Ordinance; And whereas by the said Ordinance it is enacted, among other things, that every prison, to wit, every prison within the meaning of the said Ordinance, shall include any lock-up house or place of security which may be sanctioned by any order of the Governor in Council for the temporary detention or custody of prisoners newly apprehended or under remand or awaiting trial, and which may be in such order declared to form part of such prison; And whereas it is for divers reasons expedient that the lock-up house or place of security recently erected or completed at Ebute Ero in the Town of Lagos, and known as the Ebute Ero Police Station, and also that recently erected or completed in the Tappa or Oshodi quarter of the said town and known as the Tappa Police Station form part of the said Prison of Lagos; Now therefore I, Cornelius Alfred Moloney, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Lagos, with the advice of the Executive Council of the said Colony, do hereby sanction the lock-up house or place of security situate at Ebute Ero in the Town of Lagos facing the lagoon and being at the Western corner of Docamo Street, and also the lock-up house or place of security situate in the Tappa or Oshodi quarter of the said town, and being in Oshodi Street nearly opposite to the junction thereof with Oke police stations declared prisons. |