A strict watch is kept, that no spirituous liquors may be introduced.

Care is taken that all the prisoners have the benefit of religious instruction.

The prison is accordingly open, at stated times, to the pastors of the different religious denominations of the place.

And as the mind of man may be worked upon by rewards as well as by punishments, a hope is held out to the prisoners, that the time of their confinement may be shortened by their good behaviour.

For the inspectors, if they have reason to believe that a solid reformation has taken place in any individual, have a power of interceding for his enlargement, and the executive government of granting it, if they think it proper.