Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1856

Power to Grand Juries of Boroughs to grant and convey old Prisons to Grand Juries of Counties.

LII. In any Case in which the Grand Jury of any such Borough as aforesaid, or the Council of such Borough, when such Council shall be the Body having Jurisdiction over the Gaols of the said Borough, shall, under the Provisions of this Act, have completed any Contract for the Erection or Adoption of a joint Prison in lieu of the previously existing Prison of such Borough, or shall, under the Provisions aforesaid, have entered into any perpetual Agreement with the Grand Jury of any adjoining County for the Maintenance by Contract of the Prisoners committed from such Borough, and the Grand Jury or Council of such Borough shall not deem it advisable to sell or dispose of the old Prison of such Borough, in manner authorized by the Forty-eighth Section of the Prisons Act, it shall be lawful for such Grand Jury or Council to grant and convey to the Grand Jury of the County with which they shall have made such Contract for the Erection of a joint Prison, or for the Maintenance of the Prisoners committed from that Borough, as the Case may be, all or any of the old Prisons of such Borough, and the Ground and Soil thereof, for such Estate or Interest as such Borough, or any Person or Persons in trust for them, shall have therein, and that either gratuitously or upon such Terms and for such Sums of Money as to the Grand Jury or Council of such Borough shall seem fit, such Sum of Money to be either paid to the Treasurer of the Grand Jury or Council of such Borough by the Grand Jury to which such Prison shall be thus conveyed, or to be allowed and credited by such last-mentioned Grand Jury in their Account with the Grand Jury or Council of such Borough for the Maintenance by Contract of the Prisoners committed or removed from such Borough, or for the Contribution by such Borough towards the Expenses of such joint Prison as aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for such Grand Jury to appoint any Number of Persons, not more than Twelve nor less than Six, to be Trustees for receiving such Grant or Conveyance as aforesaid, and such old Prison (in case the Grand Jury of the County to which it shall have been so conveyed shall think fit at any Time afterwards to employ it as a Gaol or to confine Prisoners therein) shall, for all Purposes relative to the Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace, and other Persons empowered to act in the Government of the Prisons of such County, be deemed to be within such County.