59. The Government may make rules consistent with this Act- (1) defining the acts which shall constitute prison-offences; (2) determining the classification of prison-offences into serious and minor offences; (3) fixing the punishments admissible under this Act which shall be awardable for commission of prison-offences or classes thereof; (4) declaring the circumstances in which acts constituting both a prison-offence and an offence under the ¹[Penal Code] may or may not be dealt with as a prison-offence; (5) for the award of marks and the shortening of sentences; (6) regulating the use of arms against any prisoner or body of prisoners in the case of an outbreak or attempt to escape; (7) defining the circumstances and regulating the conditions under which prisoners in danger of death may be released; (8) for the classification of prisons, and description and construction of wards, cells and other places of detention; (9) for the regulation by numbers, length or character of sentences, or otherwise, of the prisoners to be confined in each class of prisons; (10) for the government of prisons and for the appointment of all officers appointed under this Act; (11) as to the food, bedding and clothing of criminal prisoners and of civil prisoners maintained otherwise than at their own cost; (12) for the employment, instruction and control of convicts within or without prisons; (13) for defining articles the introduction or removal of which into or out of prisons without due authority is prohibited; (14) for classifying and prescribing the forms of labour and regulating the periods of rest from labour; (15) for regulating the disposal of the proceeds of the employment of prisoners; (16) for regulating the confinement in fetters of prisoners sentenced to transportation; (17) for the classification and the separation of prisoners; (18) for regulating the confinement of convicted criminal prisoners under section 28; (19) for the preparation and maintenance of history-tickets; (20) for the selection and appointment of prisoners as officers of prisons; (21) for rewards for good conduct; (22) for regulating the transfer of prisoners whose term of transportation or imprisonment is about to expire ²[* * *]; (23) for the treatment, transfer and disposal of criminal lunatics or recovered criminal lunatics confined in prisons; (24) for regulating the transmission of appeals and petitions from prisoners and their communications with their friends; (25) for the appointment and guidance of visitors of prisons; (26) for extending any or all the provisions of this Act and of the rules thereunder to subsidiary jails or special places of confinement appointed under section 541 of the ³[Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898,] and to the officers employed, and the prisoners confined, therein; (27) in regard to the admission, custody, employment, dieting, treatment and release of prisoners; and (28) generally for carrying into effect the purposes of this Act.