The prisoners, after receiving their rations, shall
eat in their cells and observe such rules, in
relation thereto, as shall be directed by the Super-
intendent.
The rations or daily subsistence of the prisoners
shall consist of one pound of salt or corned beef,
four days ; three-fourths of a pound of salt pork,
or three-fourths of a pound of salt fish, one day ;
and one pound of fresh meat, made into soup, two
days, in each week. One pound of bread made of
good wheat middlings, for breakfast and dinner
each day, and one-third of a pound of corn meal
made into mush, with half a gill of molasses, for
supper; there shall be- four bushels of potatoes,
carrots or turnips, for every one hundred rations,
and a sufficient quantity of salt, pepper and vine-
gar, with such alterations from time to time, as



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may be deemed necessary and approved of by the
Inspectors.
