(Ireland.) A BILL FOR The Formation, Regulation, and Government of [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in Committee.] W HEREAS it is expedient to amend the Laws now in force Preamble. relating to Convict Prisons and Hulks, and to establish Rules and Regulations for the Government of Prisons or Hulks set apart for the Reception of Prisoners under Rule or Order 5 of Transportation or of Penal Servitude in Ireland: And whereas it is expedient that all the Powers relating to Convict Depôts, Hulks, or Prisoners under Rule or Order of Transportation, set forth in the Act passed in the Seventh Year of His Majesty King George the Fourth, Chapter Seventy-four, or any other Act, should be vested in Directors 10 to be appointed as herein-after mentioned: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: former Acts. So much of the Act passed in the Seventh Year of His Repeal of 15 Majesty King George the Fourth, Chapter Seventy-four, intituled, "An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to 7G. 4. c. 74. Prisons in Ireland," as relates to Hulks, Penitentiaries, or Convict Depôts, or to the Classification, Government, and Inspection of the Prisoners confined therein, or to the supplying of Clothing for any Declaration of Convict Prisons. Convict Prisons to be free from all Prisoners under Rule or Order of Transportation by the Local II. It shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant by Warrant III. All Convict Prisons now established, or hereafter to be established, and all Lands, Buildings, Tenements, and Hereditaments Rates, Taxes, thereunto belonging, with the Appurtenances thereof, and all Persons in respect thereof, shall be wholly freed and discharged from all Taxes, Rates, Assessments, and public Charges whatsoever. &c. Lord Lieu tenant to appoint Prisons. 10 15 IV. It shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant to appoint not less than Three Persons to be Directors of the said Convict Directors of Prisons, with such Salaries as the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall approve, and the said Directors shall, subject to the Directions which they may from Time to Time receive from the 20 Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, have the Control and Management of all the said Convict Prisons, and of all Prisoners confined therein; and it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant to appoint One of such Persons to be Chairman of such Directors, and One other of them to act as Secretary and Accountant, 25 and from Time to Time to remove any of such Persons to be so appointed, and to appoint another or others in his or their Stead; and the said Directors shall be One Body Politic and Corporate, by the Name of the "Directors of Prisons for Ireland," and by that Name have perpetual Succession and a Common Seal, and by that Name 30 shall and may sue and be sued, and shall have Power and Authority to take and purchase and hold Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments. to them, their Successors and Assigns, for the Purposes of this Act, or any other Act or Acts amending the same. Directors to contract for Diet, Clothing, and Manu V. The said Directors of Prisons shall have Power to make Contracts 35 empowered with any Persons whosoever for the Clothing, Diet, and other Necessaries, for the Maintenance and Support of the Convicts confined in Convict Prisons in Ireland, and for the Implements and Materials for any kind of Manufacture or Trade in which Convicts confined in such Prisons shall be employed, and also to carry on such 40 Manufacture or Trade in such Prisons, and to sell such Goods, Wares, and Merchandise as shall be there wrought or manufactured. factures for Convict Prisons. VI. The VI. The said Directors of Prisons shall, on or before the Tenth Day Directors to of March in each Year, and oftener if required by the Chief Secretary, report to make a Report in Writing under their Hands to the Chief Secretary, tary and to specifying the State of the Buildings, the Behaviour and Conduct of Parliament 5 the Officers of the several Convict Prisons, and of the Convicts, the annually. Amount of the Earnings of the Convicts, and the Expense of all such Convict Prisons, and such other Matters relating to the Discipline and Management of such Prisons as the said Directors shall deem expedient, or as the said Chief Secretary shall direct; and every such Report 10 shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within One Calendar Month next after the Receipt thereof, if Parliament be then sitting, or if not, then within One Calendar Month after the then next Meeting of Parliament. VII. It shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant to appoint Appointment 15 for each Convict Prison in Ireland a Governor, Chaplain or Chaplains, of Officers. a Medical Officer, and such other Officers and Servants as shall be deemed to be necessary for the Service and Discipline of such Prison, and to remove all or any of them, and to fix the Salaries to be paid to the said Governor, Chaplain or Chaplains, Medical Officer, and all 20 other Officers and Servants so appointed, subject to the Approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. to give VIII. It shall be lawful for the said Directors of Prisons, if they Officers may shall deem it necessary, to require any Person employed in the Convict be required Service in Ireland to give Security for the due Performance of his Security. 25 Duties, in such Sums, and with such collateral Securities, and in such Form as the Lord Lieutenant shall direct. Officers. IX. If any Person appointed to any Office or Employment in any For ousting Convict Prison in Ireland, who shall be removed from his Office or dismissed Employment, shall refuse or neglect to quit the said Prison, or to give 30 up Possession of any House, Building, or Apartment therein, or belonging thereto, within such Period as shall be fixed in any Order or Notice in Writing, to be signed by the Directors of Prisons, not being less than Forty-eight Hours after the Delivery to such Person of any such Order or Notice, then it shall be lawful for any Justice 35 of the Peace acting for the County in which the Convict Prison is situate, on the Application of any One of the said Directors, by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of such Justice, to direct the Sheriff of the County to remove such Person out of the Prison; and the said Sheriff shall thereupon clear the Possession thereof, so far as relates to 40 any Part of the Prison, or any House, Building, or Apartment therein or belonging thereto, occupied by or in Possession of such Person, in like Manner as upon a Writ of Habere facias possessionem. Directions to make Rules Prisons, subject to Approval of Chief Secretary. X. It shall and may be lawful for the said Directors of Prisons to for Convict make, and from Time to Time to alter, Rules for the Regulation of all Convict Prisons in Ireland, and for the Duties and Conduct of the Governors and other Officers of said Prisons, and for the Diet, Clothing, Maintenance, Employment, Instruction, Discipline, and Correction of 5 the Convicts imprisoned therein; provided nevertheless, that no Rule, whether it be original, or any Amendment or Revocation of a former Rule, shall be enforced until it shall have been approved of by the Chief Secretary. Offenders under Senence of tion or Penal Servitude may be removed from and to Prisons. XI. It shall be lawful for the Chief or Under Secretary to direct the 10 Removal from and to any Convict Prison of any Convict under Sentence Transporta-, or Order of Transportation or Penal Servitude, who shall appear by the Certificate of the Medical Officer of the Gaol to be freed from any putrid or infectious or cutaneous Distemper, and fit to be removed from the Gaol, Prison, or other Place in which such Offender shall be 15 Government confined; and the Sheriff or Gaoler having the Custody of any Convict whose Removal to a Convict Prison shall be ordered in manner aforesaid shall, when so required to do, deliver up the said Convict to the Constabulary Officer or other Officer or Person who shall produce the said Order so made as aforesaid, together with a Copy, 20 attested by the said Sheriff or Gaoler, of the Sentence and Date of Conviction of such Convict, and also a Return specifying such other Particulars within the Knowledge of the said Sheriff or Gaoler concerning such Convict as may be from Time to Time directed by the Chief or Under Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant: And the said Constabulary 25 Officer or other Officer or Person shall give a Receipt to the said Sheriff or Gaoler for such Convict, and shall thereupon, with all convenient Despatch, convey and deliver up any such Convict, with the said attested Copy and Return, into the Custody of the Governor of the Convict Prison mentioned in the said Order; and the said Governor shall give a 30 Receipt in Writing for every Convict so received into his Custody to such Constabulary Officer or other Officer or Person as his Discharge. Hours of XII. Such Convicts may be employed in Work every Day in the Year except Sundays, Christmas Day, Good Friday, and any other Day or Days appointed for a general Fast or Thanksgiving, or any 35 Holiday or Holidays as may be fixed and stated in the General Rules to be made by the Directors of Prisons, to be appointed under this Act, for so many Hours, not exceeding Twelve, exclusive of the Time allowed for Meals and Exercises, as the said Directors shall order: Provided always, that the said Directors, by a written Order, may 40 allow any Convict at his own Request to labour for a longer Time than is required by the Rules to be made as aforesaid. XIII. No |