Convict Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1854

Clerks of Crown and Peace to furnish Schedule of Convicts.

XXVII. It shall and may be lawful for the respective Clerks of the Crown, and they are hereby required, at each Assizes and General Gaol Delivery in every Town, County of a City, and County of a Town in Ireland, and at every Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery therein, and at every Term or Session of the Commission of Oyer and Terminer and Gaol Delivery for the County of Dublin, or for the County of the City of Dublin, and the respective Clerks of the Peace are also hereby required at each Quarter Sessions to furnish the Commissioners of Prisons with a complete Schedule, duly signed, in the Form to this Act annexed, of the several Prisoners brought to Trial and sentenced to Transportation or to Penal Servitude at such Assizes and General Gaol Delivery, and at such Special Commission, and at each and every Term or Session of the Commission of the County of Dublin and of the County of the City of Dublin respectively, and at each and every Quarter Session, specifying the particular Crime of which each Prisoner was accused, and stating the Sentence of the Judge on each Trial, and whether the said several Sentences have been executed respectively, or whether the whole or any and what Part or Parts of them have been remitted, and to transmit the same to the said Directors of Prisons within Ten Days after the Termination of the said Assizes, Gaol Delivery or Quarter Sessions aforesaid, and the Copy of the said Schedule, or all or any Part thereof, duly certified by the Directors of Prisons, shall be deemed to be a Caption, and due and sufficient Evidence of the Order or Rule of Court in respect of any such Prisoner.