"The officers, and other free persons, shall be allowed to purchase grain from the public stores, to maintain the livestock they are permitted to keep, according to the following scale:-- "Commandant, not to exceed five bushels per month; civil and military officers, three bushels per month; inferior free persons, one bushel per month. "To enable the officers of the settlement to cultivate their gardens, they shall be allowed to have convicts appropriated to their service in the following proportion:-- "Commandant, three men; military and civil officers, two ditto. "These men are not to be mechanics or tradesmen, and are to be allowed in addition to any servants they may have been permitted to take with them to the settlement. "When work is required to be done by the mechanics for the absolute comfort and convenience of any of the officers on the settlement, the following regulations shall be observed:-- "The officer to make a written requisition, which will, if approved by the commandant, be given to the overseer of the mechanics, who will receive the whole of the materials from the officer. The work to be performed in the lumber-yard during government hours. "No remuneration of any kind is to be given the mechanic for his services. This indulgence is not to extend to any article of furniture, or any thing else that can be dispensed with, or procured in any other manner. A separate book is to be kept, and entries made of the work so done, and quarterly returns sent to the colonial secretary. It must be understood that no government materials, even of the most trifling nature, will be allowed for any such purpose. "All trafficking and trading between the free and bond on the settlement, shall be strictly prohibited, and severely punished. "The convicts under colonial sentence, shall be steadily and constantly employed at hard labor from sunrise till sunset, one hour being allowed for breakfast, and one hour for dinner, during the winter six months; but two hours will be allotted for dinner during the summer. "The convicts shall be worked in field labor, with the hoe and spade, in gangs, not fewer than fifteen or more than twenty. No task work shall be allowed. "There shall be an overseer attached to each gang, and to every five gangs a constable, who shall assist the overseers in the superintendence of the men. "The constables and overseers, are not to push or strike the convicts, and no punishment is to be inflicted but by the express orders of the commandant. "If a convict should have any thing to represent or complain of to the commandant, it shall be the duty of the constable to bring him before him. "No prisoner is to be permitted to receive, or to procure, any article of luxury, or any addition to the established ration of the settlement. "As a reward of and encouragement to good conduct, the prisoners shall be divided into two classes, to be called the first and second classes respectively.