Superintendent.
Rule109. All letters acknowledging the receipt of letters of
Government in death cases must be signed by the Superintendent
or the Deputy Superintendent of the prison.
Orders to be communicated by telegraph.
Rule110. Orders of the Governor rejecting the petition for
mercy from condemned prisoners will, be communicated by an
express letter and should be promptly acknowledged by the
Superintendent by post. The orders of the President declining to
interfere and ordering the carrying out of the execution will be
conveyed by Government by telegram and will be repeated back to
Government by wire by the Superintendent. The orders of
commutation of death sentence and the postponement of execution
will also be communicated by telegraph and should be
acknowledged, by the Superintendent, by telegram.
Procedure when acknowledging orders of Government.
Rule111. When acknowledging any orders of Government
postponing the execution, the Superintendent shall state in his
acknowledging letter that the execution has been postponed
pending further orders of the Government.
CHAPTER-6
Release of Prisoners
Note. The method of calculating the date of release is
described in rules on admission of prisoner.
Name of prisoner with a sentence of less than four months to be
entered in release register.
Rule112. On admission to prison of a prisoner with a
substantive sentence of less than four months his name shall be
entered in the release register under the date on which his sentence
will expire. If special remission is awarded subsequently, the date
shall be altered accordingly.
Check dates to be fixed for prisoners with sentence of four
months or over.
Rule113. The names of prisoners whose substantive
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