XIII. No Convict who shall have been received into the Custody Discharge of of the Governor of any such Convict Prison shall be dismissed from Convicts. the said Prison at the End or other Determination of his Term, if he shall then labour under any acute or dangerous Distemper, unless at 5 his Request, and when such Convict shall be finally discharged such decent Clothing and such Assistance in Money or otherwise as shall be judged proper by the Directors shall be given to such Convict.

sons to enter

XIV. No Person except the Directors, Officers, and Servants of None but the Prison, or such other Persons as shall be authorized by the certain Per10 Directors or by the Rules to be made under this Act, shall be allowed Convict at any Time to enter any Part of any Convict Prison, or to converse Prisons. or hold Communication of any kind with any of the Prisoners.

have same Power over

as the Sheriff

XV. After the Delivery of any such Convict as aforesaid into the Governor to Custody of the Governor of any Convict Prison, such Governor, or 15 other Person having the Custody of Convicts under his Direction, Prisoners in shall, during the Term for which such Convict shall be ordered to his Custody remain in his Custody, have the same Powers over such Convicts, or Gaoler. whether within or without the Prison, as are incident to the Office of Sheriff or Gaoler, and in case of any Abuse of such Custody, or other 20 Misbehaviour or Negligence in the Discharge of his Office, shall be liable to the same Punishment to which a Gaoler is now liable by Law.

ble Convicts.

XVI. It shall be lawful for the Directors from Time to Time to Punishment specify, by the said Rules and Regulations to be made under this Act, of incorrigi25 with the Approval of the Chief Secretary, such Offences as shall appear deserving of Corporal Punishment; and if any Male Convict any Convict Prison shall commit any such Offence, One or more of the said Directors shall have Power to authorize in Writing the Governor of such Prison to cause Corporal Punishment to be inflicted 30 on such Offender.

in

XVII. Every Prisoner who shall be ordered to be detained in any Convicts Convict Prison, who at any Time shall break Prison, or who while escaping or breaking being conveyed to such Prison shall escape from the Person or Persons Prison. having the lawful Custody of such Prisoner, shall be punished by an 35 Addition, not exceeding Two Years, to the Term of his Sentence; and Two Years additional

every Prisoner in any Convict Prison who at any Time shall attempt Imprisonto break Prison, or who shall forcibly break out of his Cell, or make ment. any Breach therein with Intent to escape therefrom, or shall escape or One Year for attempt to escape when at Work outside the Prison, shall be punished Attempt to 40 by an Addition, not exceeding One Year, to the Term of his Imprison

ment.

break Prison.

Punishment of Persons rescuing or attempting

to rescue

Convicts.

Punishing Officers for furnishing Convicts with pro

cles.

XVIII. Every Person who shall rescue any Convict who shall be ordered to be imprisoned in any Convict Prison, either during the Time of his Conveyance to or from any Convict Prison or of his Imprisonment therein, and also every Person who shall aid in any such Rescue, shall be guilty of Felony; and every Person having the Custody of any 5 such Convict as aforesaid, or being employed by the Person having such Custody as a Keeper, Underkeeper, Turnkey, Assistant, or Guard, who shall knowingly and willingly allow any such Convict to escape; also every Person who, by supplying Arms, Tools, or Instruments of Disguise, or otherwise, shall in any Manner aid any such 10 Convict in any Escape, though no Escape be actually made; and every Person who shall attempt to rescue any such Convict, or aid in any such Attempt, though no Rescue be actually made, shall be guilty of Felony; and every Person having such Custody as aforesaid who shall carelessly allow any such Convict to escape shall be guilty of a 15 Misdemeanor, and being lawfully convicted of such Misdemeanor, shall be liable to Fine or Imprisonment, or to both, at the Discretion of the Court.

XIX. Every Officer or Servant of any Convict Prison, or any other Person or Persons, who shall bring in or carry out, or endeavour to 20 bring in or carry out, or knowingly allow to be brought in or carried hibited Arti- out, to or for any Convict, or carry to any Convict while employed outside the Prison Walls, any Money, Clothing, Provisions, Tobacco, Spirits, Letters, Papers, or other Articles whatsoever, not allowed by the Rules of the said Prison, shall, if an Officer or Servant of the 25 Prison, be subject to Dismissal from Office, or if it be thought fit, such Officer or other Person or Persons shall, upon the Order of any of the Directors of Prisons, be apprehended and carried before a Justice of the Peace, who shall be empowered to hear and determine any such Offence in a summary Way; and every such Officer or Servant, or 30 other Person or Persons, upon Conviction of such Offence before a Justice of the Peace, shall be liable to pay a Penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds, or, in the Discretion of the Justice, to be imprisoned in the Common Gaol or House of Correction, there to be kept, with or without Hard Labour, for any Period not exceeding Six Calendar 35 Months.

Directors

may act as

Justices of the Peace.

XX. It shall be lawful for the Directors of Prisons, or any of them, and he or they are hereby authorized, in any Prison, either on Land or on board any Vessel, and also in every Place wherein any Offenders under Rule or Order of Sentence of Transportation or Penal Servitude 40 shall be detained, or shall be employed to labour, to act in every respect as a Justice or Justices of the Peace as if he or they had been named in the Commission of the Peace, and had been duly qualified to act as a Justice or Justices of the Peace for the County

or

or Place in which such Place of Confinement or Convict Prison shall be, or any Convict shall be employed to labour.

false Evi

XXI. Every Person who, upon Examination on Oath or Affirmation Penalty for before the said Directors of Prisons, or any of them, shall wilfully dence. 5 give false Evidence, shall be liable to the Pains and Penalties of Perjury.

and Officers

XXII. The Provisions of all Acts of Parliament for rendering Protection of Justices of the Peace more safe in the Execution of the Duties of their the Directors Office shall extend to the Directors, or any of them, and the several of Convict 10 Governors or other Officers of Convict Prisons acting in the Execution Prisons. of this Act.

XXIII. All Actions, Suits, and Prosecutions to be commenced Limitation of Actions. against any Person or Persons for anything done in pursuance of this Act shall be laid and tried in the County or Place where the Fact was 15 committed, and shall be commenced within Six Months after the Fact committed, and not otherwise nor afterwards.

Conviction.

XXIV. Every Convict or other Person who shall commit any Mode of Offence mentioned in this Act, or in any way relating to any Convict Trial and Prison for which he is not liable to be summarily convicted, may be 20 tried before the Justices of Oyer and Terminer at Dublin, or for the County in which the Offender shall be taken, and in any Case of any Prosecution for any such Offence, either against a Convict or against any other Person or Persons concerned therein or accessory thereunto, a Copy, properly attested, of the Order of Commitment to such 25 Prison, with Proof that the Person then in question before the Court is the same who was delivered with such Order, and Production of the Register of the said Prison shall be sufficient Evidence of all the Facts entered in such Register as to such Convict without the Production of any Record of Conviction or other Proof that such Convict 30 had been convicted of Felony, and legally ordered to be imprisoned in any Convict Prison.

XXV. From and after the passing of this Act all Prison Clothing required to be supplied to Convicts on Removal to Convict Prisons from any Gaol or other Place of Confinement in Ireland shall be 35 provided by the Directors of Prisons.

Convict
Clothing in
County
Gaols to be
furnished by
Directors of
Prisons.

XXVI. No Governor or other paid Officer of any Convict Prison Officers not shall, either in his own Name or in the Name of any other Person, to be concerned in provide, furnish, or supply for his own Profit any Materials, Goods, Contracts, or Provisions for the Use of any Convict Prison, nor shall be con40 cerned directly or indirectly in furnishing or supplying the same, or

&c.

in any Contract relating thereto, under Pain of forfeiting the Sum of Penalty 100%. One hundred Pounds, with full Costs of Suit, to any Person who shall sue for the same, by Action of Debt or on the Case, in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record at Dublin.

Clerks of
Crown and

Peace

to furnish

Convicts.

XXVII. It shall and may be lawful for the respective Clerks of 5 the Crown, and they are hereby required, at each Assizes and General Gaol Delivery in every Town, County of a City, and County Schedule of of a Town in Ireland, and at every Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery therein, and at every Term or Session of the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery for 10 the County of Dublin, or for the County of the City of Dublin, and the respective Clerks of the Peace are also hereby required at each Quarter Sessions to furnish the Commissioners of Prisons with a complete Schedule, duly signed, in the Form to this Act annexed, of the several Prisoners brought to Trial and sentenced to Transporta- 15 tion or to Penal Servitude at such Assizes and General Gaol Delivery, and at such Special Commission, and at each and every Term or Session of the Commission of the County of Dublin, and of the County of the City of Dublin, respectively, and at each and every Quarter Session, specifying the particular Crime of which each 20 Prisoner was accused, and stating the Sentence of the Judge on each Trial, and whether the said several Sentences have been executed respectively, or whether the whole or any and what Part or Parts of them have been remitted, and to transmit the same to the said Directors of Prisons within Ten Days after the Termination of the said 25 Assizes, Gaol Delivery, or Quarter Sessions aforesaid, and the Copy of the said Schedule, or all or any Part thereof, duly certified by the Directors of Prisons, shall be deemed to be a Caption, and due and sufficient Evidence of the Order or Rule of Court in respect of any such Prisoner.

Prisons to be within the

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Officers of XXVIII. The Directors to be appointed by the Lord Lieutenant the Convict under this Act, and the Governors, and all inferior Officers whatsoever belonging to Convict Prisons in Ireland, shall be within the Provisions Provisions of of the several Acts passed for regulating Pensions, Compensations, and Allowances to be made to Persons in respect of their having held 35 Civil Offices in Her Majesty's Service, to all Intents and Purposes as if the said Directors, Governors, and Officers of the said several Convict Prisons had been mentioned in the Schedules to the said Acts.

the several

Superannuation Acts.

XXIX. All Persons who shall be found trespassing upon any Grounds, Buildings, Yards, Offices, or other Premises whatsoever, 40 belonging or pertaining to any Convict Prison, or shall enter the same without being an Officer of the said Prison, or authorized by Leave

by

Fine of 40s. or One

by any of the Directors of Prisons, or the Governor of the said Convict Prison, shall, upon Conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace for the County in which any such Convict Prison may be situate, be adjudged to pay a Fine not exceeding, for the First Offence First Offence, 5 Forty Shillings, to be recovered in the usual Way, or in default of Payment then the Offender may be sent to the Common Gaol, with Month's or without Hard Labour, for any Period not exceeding One Month; Imprisonand for a Second or subsequent Offence the Offender may be fined in Second, 51, any Sum not exceeding Five Pounds, to be recovered in the same or Three Months, 10 usual Way, or in default to be liable to Imprisonment, with or without Hard Labour, for a Period not exceeding Three Calendar Months.

XXX. The Expression "Lord Lieutenant" shall be deemed to Interpretaextend to and include any Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland.

tion Clause.