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Mode of Trial and Conviction.
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XXIV. Every Convict or other Person who shall commit any Offence mentioned in this Act, or in any way relating to any Convict Prison for which he is not liable to be summarily convicted, may be 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 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 had been convicted of Felony, and legally ordered to be imprisoned in any Convict Prison.
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