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Inspectors shall visit madhouses, &c.
Penalty for obstructing them.
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61. The inspectors general of prisons shall have power, and they are hereby required to visit and inspect, as often as they shall think fit, all madhouses and places where idiots or lunatics are confined, whether the same shall be any public establishment or kept for profit by any private individual, as well as all gaols and prisons throughout Ireland; and if any person or persons shall hinder, molest, or prevent any such inspector general from visiting and inspecting any of the said places of confinement, such person or persons, being duly convicted thereof before any two magistrates or justices of the peace in the county, county of a city, or county of a town where such hindrance shall have been made, shall for every such offence be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty pounds, at the discretion of such magistrates, and so toties quoties for every new hindrance after such conviction; and upon non-payment of the same, such person so convicted shall, by the warrant of such magistrates, be imprisoned in the common gaol of the county, county of a city, or county of a town, for six calendar months, unless such fine be sooner paid.
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