Conveying letters or articles

(1) Every person who, (a) conveys or attempts to convey any letter or other document or any article whatever not allowed by prison rules into or out of any prison; or (b) conveys or causes to be conveyed to any when employed beyond the precincts of the prison or when going or returning from any such place of employment any letter or other document or any article whatever not allowed by prison rules, 26 shall on summary conviction be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or both, in the discretion of the magistrate. (2) Every officer of the prison convicted under this section shall, in addition to any other punishment, be liable to forfeit all arrears of salary due to him.