(1) The police officer who despatches an escort over prisoners by road shall be held responsible that a proper and sufficient escort is sent; that, where the escort consists of one or two Constables only, they possess equal or greater physical power to, or than that possessed by the prisoners in their custody, and that proper discretion is used in regard to increasing the escort under special circumstances when the country is disturbed or popular feeling is excited in favour of, or against, the prisoners, or in regard to the offence committed. Prisoners shall not be marched by road in the hot weather between the hours of 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. or in any season when it is raining, or likely to rain, heavily. A and B class convicts and better class under-trial prisoners shall when travelling by road, be taken by motor- lorry or other suitable conveyance. (2) Police escorts shall on no account be required to carry any property belonging to prisoners. The officer commanding the escort shall take over from the jail or other dispatching authority any official documents relating to the transfer, petty cash, whether belonging to prisoners or advanced for the expenses of the journey, keys of fetters, etc., but any property belonging to or necessarily sent with the prisoners shall be transported under arrangements to be made by the despatching authority. The cost of transporting, whether by coolie or otherwise, any such property and the bedding of prisoners shall be recovered from the Jail Department