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Lord Lieutenant, on Report of Inspectors General, may direct Prison to be used as a joint Prison, and Prisoners to be removed to it.
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XLIV. When any joint Prison, or a sufficient Part thereof, shall have been built, or enlarged or improved, as the Case may be, and fitted up for the Reception of Prisoners, or of the additional Prisoners whom it shall have been agreed to confine therein, and proper Officers shall have been appointed for the Management, thereof, the Inspectors General of Prisons or One of them shall certify, in Writing under their or his Hand to the Lord Lieutenant, that such Prison, or a sufficient Part thereof, is so fitted and completed, and that such Officers have been appointed, and it shall thereupon be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant, by an Order in Writing, to direct that such joint Prison may thenceforth be used as a Gaol, as well for Debtors as Criminals, for the said County and Borough respectively, either in addition to or in place of (as shall be specified in said Order) the other then existing Gaols of the said County or Borough, and that all Prisoners, as well Debtors as Criminals, at that Time confined in the Common Gaol, Bridewell, House of Correction, or other Prisons of the said County or Borough, or such and so many of such Prisoners as shall be specified in the said Order, may, if requisite, be forthwith removed to such joint Prison by the Governors or Keepers of such Gaols, Bridewells, Houses of Correction, or other Prisons as aforesaid, and the Removal of any such Prisoners, in obedience to any such Order, shall not be construed to be an Escape.
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