Convict Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1854

Officers not to be concerned in Contracts, &c. Penalty 100l.

XXVI. No Governor or other paid Officer of any Convict Prison shall, either in his own Name or in the Name of any other Person, provide, furnish, or supply for his own Profit any Materials, Goods, or Provisions for the Use of any Convict Prison, nor shall be concerned directly or indirectly in furnishing or supplying the same, or in any Contract relating thereto, under Pain of forfeiting the Sum of 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.