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Sect.

Enlargement and Rebuilding of Prisons.

23. Power to build prisons.

24. Conditions as to building prisons.

25. Mode of obtaining sanction of secretary of state to building of

prisons.

26. Approval of secretary of state.

27. Charge of borrowed monies.

28. Certain clauses of 10 & 11 Vict. c. 16, as to borrowing money incorporated.

29. Public works loan commissioners to lend money for building prisons.

30. Appointment of surveyor general of prisons.

Contracts for Maintenance of Prisoners and Appropriation of Prisons.

31. Contracts by prison authorities for maintenance of prisoners. 32. Expenses of contracts between prison authorities.

33. Appropriation of prisons for purposes of classification.

34. Public notice of prisons being appropriated to certain pri

soners.

Penalty for inadequate Prisons.

35. Government allowance withheld from inadequate prisons. 36. Power of secretary of state to close inadequate prisons.

Offences in relation to Prisons.

37. Assisting prisoners to escape.

38. Punishment for carrying spirituous liquors or tobacco into prison.

39. Punishment for carrying letters into and out of prisons. 40. Notice of penalties to be placed outside of prison.

Discharge of Prisoners.

41. When term of imprisonment expires on Sunday, prisoner to be discharged on preceding day.

42. Allowance to discharged prisoner.

43. Discharged prisoners provided with means of returning to place of settlement.

Sect.

Purchase of Land.

44. Certain provisions of 8 & 9 Vict. c. 18, incorporated.

45. Confirmation of title to lands purchased for purpose of prison.

Disposal of unnecessary Prisons.

46. Sale of unnecessary prisons.

47. Conditions of sale.

Miscellaneous.

48. Inquests on prisoners.

49. General issue may be pleaded to action.

50. Venue, where laid.

51. Provision as to arbitration.

52. Recovery of penalties.

Visiting Justices.

53. Appointment of visiting justices.
54. Power to make rules as to visiting justices.
55. Visits to prison by any justice.

PART II.

LAW OF PRISONS.

56. Abolition of distinction between gaol and house of correc

tion.

57. Jurisdiction over prison.

58. Custody of prisoners.

59. Security to sheriff.

60. Responsibility of sheriff.

61. Description of prison in writ.

62. Gaoler of prison to deliver calendar.

63. Removal of prisoners for trial.

64. Removal of prisoners in other cases.

65. Her Majesty may order prisoners to be removed from one

prison to another.

66. Custody and trial of prisoners in a substituted prison.

67. Misdemeanants of first division.

Sect.

PART III.

DISCONTINUANCE OF CERTAIN PRISONS.

68. Prohibition of committals to prisons in second schedule. 69. Removal of prisoners in scheduled prisons.

70. Expenses of prisoners confined in county prisons under Act. 71. Power to use scheduled prisons as lock-up houses.

72. Power to allow compensation to persons deprived of office.

PART IV.

REPEAL OF STATUTES, AND SAVING CLAUSES.

73. Acts and parts of Acts in third schedule repealed.
74. No repeal hereby enacted to affect any order made, &c.
75. Certificates as to cells.

76. Saving as to repealed provisions referred to in other Acts.
77. As to meaning of Gaol Act, 25 & 26 Vict. c. 44.

78. Saving of rights of creditors.

79. Saving of superannuation allowances.

80. Saving as to rules.

81. Saving as to appointment of officers.
82. Saving as to commissions.

INDEX TO SCHEDULES.
SCHEDULES.

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