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Section 9 of 3 & 4 Vict. c. 109. repealed.
Power to Borough to contract with County for Reception of Prisoners in the County Gaol.
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L. The Ninth Section of the Act passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the Third and Fourth Years of Her present Majesty, Chapter One hundred and nine, is hereby repealed; and it shall be lawful for the Grand Jury of any Borough which shall be a County of a City or County of a Town, or for the Council of any such Borough, when such Council shall be the Body having Authority over the Gaols of the said Borough, to contract with the Grand Jury of any County adjoining the said Borough, or with which it shall have a common Boundary, for the Support and Maintenance in any Gaol or House of Correction of such County of the Prisoners, as well Debtors as Criminals, committed thereto from such Borough; provided that no such Contract be entered into without an Order for that Purpose being made by each Grand Jury or Council which shall be Party thereto in their County Book or other Book in which their Proceedings are entered, and every such Contract may either be perpetual or limited to a Term of Years, as the Parties shall mutually agree; and during the Existence of such Contract all Prisoners, as well Debtors as Criminals, who would otherwise be confined in the Gaol or House of Correction of such Borough, may be lawfully committed or removed to and confined in the Gaol so receiving them under such Contract, and every Person so committed and removed shall be, and shall to all Intents and Purposes be deemed to be, in the proper legal Custody for and during the Time of such Committal and Removal, and for and during such Time as he shall be in the said Prison so receiving him, under such Control as aforesaid, in like Manner to all Intents and Purposes as if such Person had been committed to or had been or continued to be in the Common Gaol of such Borough; and every such Prisoner, Debtor, or other Person shall, during his or her Confinement in such County Prison, be in all respects subject to the sole Government and Control of the Board of Superintendence of such County Prison.
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