valuable articles shall remain in the custody of the Deputy
Superintendent.
Superintendent may refuse to receive property.
Rule72. The Superintendent may receive or refuse any
property tendered for a prisoner by his friends or relatives at the
time of admission or subsequently.
Money to be entered in cash book on admission.
Rule73. (i) Receipt of all moneys belonging to the
prisoners shall be entered in the cash book and all transactions
shall be posted in the "prisoners' cash account register."
(ii) Money which is the property of the prisoners shall not
be held for a long time by the Deputy Superintendent, but shall be
paid into the treasury at convenient intervals to the credit of
personal ledger account of prisoner. For this purpose a separate
prisoner's cash deposit account with the treasury shall be
maintained. The cash balance retained by the Deputy
Superintendent, shall not be in excess of the normal amount
required for disbursements each month and any money in excess of
the anticipated expenditure shall be remitted to the treasury at the
end of each month.
Valuable property.
Rule74. (i) The Deputy Superintendent shall keep all the
valuable property belonging to the prisoners in his custody in the
treasure chest in small bags or packets. Special envelopes should
be provided for the purpose on which number, name, sentence and
date of sentence of the prisoner shall be written.
Such property shall be entered in the register of valuable
articles.
(ii) The Deputy Superintendent shall enter these packets in
the register of valuable articles according to the admission number
of the prisoner. The register shall be re-written every alternate year.
When a Deputy Superintendent is transferred, the register shall be
checked and signed by both .the relieved and relieving officers.
(iii) The Superintendent shall check all the valuable
property of the prisoners with register and admission register and
satisfy himself as to its accuracy at least once a year and record the
result in his order book.
Note. Securities, Bonds, Coins and Currency notes of
foreign countries shall be classed as valuable articles.
Certain articles may be allowed to prisoners.
Rule75. (i) Prisoners may be allowed to keep the following
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