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As to Trial of Prisoners committed or removed to joint Prisons or to County Prisons under Contracts.
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LIII. All Prisoners, as well Debtors as Criminals, committed or removed to, or confined in, any such joint Prison as aforesaid from the County which was Party to the Contract under which such Prison was provided, shall be dealt with and be triable and tried in the same Manner as if such Prison were the Common Gaol of the County from which any such Prisoner was committed or removed: and all Prisoners, as well Debtors as Criminals, committed or removed to, or confined in, any such joint Prison as aforesaid from the Borough which was Party to the Contract under which such Prison was provided, and also all Prisoners, as well Debtors as Criminals, confined as aforesaid in the Gaol or House of Correction of any County, shall be dealt with in like Manner as if such joint Prison, or, as the Case may be, such County Prison, were the Common Gaol of the Borough from which any such Prisoner was committed or removed; and every Prisoner committed or removed before Trial from any Borough to any such joint Prison, or, as the Case may be, to such County Prison, shall be triable and tried in the Manner heretofore accustomed, and in the usual Place of Trial of such Borough, or other the Place in which he or she would or might have been tried if this Act had not been passed; and it shall be lawful for the Magistrates, or other proper Officers of such Borough, to direct the Removal of such Prisoner for Trial, and to do all other Acts necessary for such Trial or consequent thereon: Provided nevertheless, that nothing in this Act contained shall be deemed or taken to control, or in any Manner limit or interfere with any Power which is by an Act of the Session holden in the Fifth and Sixth Years of King William the Fourth, Chapter Twenty-six, or by an Act of the Session holden in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty-five, or by any other Act now in force, vested in the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, of altering, with the Advice of Her Majesty’s Privy Council in Ireland, the Place of holding the Assizes or Sessions, or special Commission or Commissions of Oyer and Terminer, of or for any County, County of a City, or County of a Town, in Ireland, or to interfere with or in any Manner invalidate or affect any Order in Council heretofore made for that Purpose, under the Authority of the said Acts or any of them.
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