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Persons convicted of Offences punishable by Imprisonment may be kept to hard Labour, &c.
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III. And be it enacted, That when any Person shall be convicted of any Offence punishable under this Act for which Imprisonment may be awarded it shall be lawful for the Court to sentence the Offender to be imprisoned, with or without hard Labour, in the Common Gaol or House of Correction, and also to direct that the Offender shall be kept in solitary Confinement for any Portion or Portions of such Imprisonment, not exceeding One Month at any one Time, and not exceeding Three Months in any one Year, as to the Court in its Discretion shall seem meet.
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