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Punishing Officers for furnishing Convicts with prohibited Articles.
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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 bring in or carry out, or knowingly allow to be brought in or carried 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 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 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 Months.
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