In addition to the duties elsewhere prescribed in these rules, it shall be the duty of convict overseers,-
(a) to keep surveillance on prisoners to prevent suicide and escape from wards and cells;
(b) to nurse and care for patients in jail hospital;
(c) to obey the Superintendent, Jailor or any jail official, or officer of the Public Works Department under whom they may be placed, unless they are ordered to do anything contrary to jail rules, in which case they shall report at the earliest opportunity to the Superintendent or Jailor;
(d) to assist the warders of their gangs in superintending the prisoners at work, conducting them to parades, maintaining discipline and silence and keeping them in safe custody;
(e) to take charge, if necessary, of a gang or a part of a gang of prisoners inside the jail;
(f) to share with the watchmen the duty of guarding the wards by inside patrol at night, and to be responsible for the efficiency of the watch, the safe custody of the prisoners and the maintenance of discipline in the wards at night;
(g) to escort individual prisoners inside the jail;
(h) to keep the history tickets of the prisoners of their gangs;
(i) to count frequently the prisoners made over to them, to see that the number is correct and to search them and to prevent them from receiving or retaining prohibited articles;
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(j) to report the fact in the event of prohibited articles being found upon any prisoner, otherwise the convict overseer in charge of the gang to which such prisoner belongs shall, unless he has reported the fact, be punished;
(k) to give notice of any breaches of jail rules, plots or conspiracies that may come to their knowledge, whether amongst prisoners of their own or of other gangs;
(l) to see that their prisoners industriously perform their tasks, do not leave their proper places or communicate with each other in an irregular manner, and that they keep in five, when moving from place to place;
(m) to report every prisoner who uses the latrine (except for the purpose of urinating) out of regular hour, and to report all cases of diarrhea and other sickness, especially during the prevalence of epidemics;
(n) to see that every prisoner properly folds up and arranges his bedding in the morning before the wards are opened;
(o) to see that their prisoners wash themselves and their clothes cleaned;
(p) to assist in quelling any outbreak and to defend any jail official in case of assault; and
(q) to supervise wards in prison hospital and to assist Medical Officer.