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Every prisoner in a prison shall at all times, by day and night, be under the in-charge of some guarding personnel, in such a manner that responsibility for an escape resulting from negligence be definitely fixed. A record of the names of prisoners made over to each guarding personnel during the day shall be kept in a gang-book and every subsequent change of a prisoner from one gang to another, shall be recorded therein under the authority and signatures of an officer not below the rank of a head warder, who likewise at every change of guard shall be present to witness and verify the number of prisoners made over to the relieving guarding personnel. Details of procedure to be observed in guarding.