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Offenders under Sentence of Transportation or Penal Servitude may be removed from and to Government Prisons.
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XI. It shall be lawful for the Chief or Under Secretary to direct the Removal from and to any Convict Prison of any Convict under Sentence or Order of Transportation or Penal Servitude, who shall appear by the Certificate of the Medical Officer of the Gaol to be freed from any putrid or infectious or cutaneous Distemper, and fit to be removed from the Gaol, Prison, or other Place in which such Offender shall be confined; and the Sheriff or Gaoler having the Custody of any Convict whose Removal to a Convict, Prison shall be ordered in manner aforesaid shall, when so required to do, deliver up the said Convict to the Constabulary Officer or other Officer or Person who shall produce the said Order so made as aforesaid, together with a Copy, attested by the said Sheriff or Gaoler, of the Sentence and Date of Conviction of such Convict, and also a Return specifying such other Particulars within the Knowledge of the said Sheriff or Gaoler concerning such Convict as may be from Time to Time directed by the Chief or Under Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant: And the said Constabulary Officer or other Officer or Person shall give a Receipt to the said Sheriff or Gaoler for such Convict, and shall thereupon, with all convenient Despatch, convey and deliver up any such Convict, with the said attested Copy and Return, into the Custody of the Governor of the Convict Prison mentioned in the said Order; and the said Governor shall give a Receipt in Writing for every Convict so received into his Custody to such Constabulary Officer or other Officer or Person as his Discharge.
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