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Gaols built, or additions thereto, shall be deemed part of the county to which they belong.
Gaol ceasing to be used as such shall be deemed part of the county where situate.
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47. When any new gaol, bridewell, house of correction, or other prison, so to be built and erected for any county, county of a city, or county of a town, or any old gaol, bridewell, house of correction, or other prison thereof, which shall require any addition thereto, shall be situate within the limits of any other county, county of a city, or county of a town, then and in every such case such new gaol, bridewell, house of correction, or other prison, and all additions which shall be so made to such old gaol, bridewell, house of correction, or other prison, together with the ground whereon the same shall be built respectively, and all courts, yards, outoffices, buildings, and other appurtenances thereto belonging, shall, from the time of receiving prisoners into such new gaol, bridewell, house of correction, or other prison, or of completing such addition, be deemed, taken, and adjudged to be part of the county, county of a city, or county of a town to which such gaol, bridewell, houses of correction, or other prison, shall belong, to all intents and purposes; and whensoever any gaol, bridewell, house of correction, or other prison, of any county shall cease to be a prison of such county, county of a city, or county of a town, and shall be situate within the limits of any other county, county of a city, or county of a town, then and in every such case such gaol, bridewell, house of correction, or other prison, with all its appurtenances, shall thenceforth be deemed and taken to be part of the county, county of a city, or county of a town, wherein the same shall be so situate, any charter, law, or usage to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.
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