General Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1877

Lock-ups.

23. The Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland shall, when required by the Lord Lieutenant, provide and maintain, in connexion with all such constabulary barracks as the Lord Lieutenant shall order, such proper accommodation for the temporary detention of prisoners, being unconvicted or unsentenced prisoners as the Lord Lieutenant shall direct.

All moneys necessary for providing and maintaining such accommodation as aforesaid shall in the first instance be voted by Parliament, and shall be repaid by the several counties in Ireland in such manner as the reasury shall from time to time prescribe, and the same shall be raised by grand jury presentment of each county to which the same shall be declared by the Lord Lieutenant to relate, and in such proportions as he shall think just.

Visiting Committee of Justices.