Ireland, to the Receiver of the Metropolitan Police District for VIII. And be it further enacted, That the said Receiver of the Metropolitan Police District shall pay over all Monies so received by him on account of the said Horse Patrol into the Hands of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and shall keep a separate and distinct Account of such Monies, and of all Sums expended by him in respect of the said Horse Patrol. IX. And be it further enacted, That all the Provisions and Enactments contained in the aforesaid Act relative to the drawing and accounting for Monies which may come into the Hands of the said Receiver of the Metropolitan Police District for the Purposes of that Act, and for the auditing the Accounts of the said Receiver, and the Powers and Liabilities of the said Receiver, shall be deemed and taken to extend to the said Receiver in respect to the said Horse Patrol, so far as the same may be applicable, as fully and entirely as if the same were herein expressed and enacted. X. And be it further enacted, That the said Receiver of the Metropolitan Police District shall stand possessed of all the Horses, Arms, Accoutrements, and other Necessaries which have been furnished and are in the Use or Possession of the said Horse Patrol, and make all such Contracts or Disbursements as shall be necessary for renting any Land or Buildings, or for erecting, fitting up, furnishing, or repairing any Buildings for the Purposes of this Act, in such Manner as One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State shall direct; and of all Lands and Buildings so to be rented, and of the Fixtures and Furniture thereof, and of all Goods and Chattels whatsoever to be from Time to Time held or purchased for the Purposes of this Act, the Property acquired therein shall be vested in the said Receiver for the Time being; and the said Receiver may, by the Directions of such Principal Secretary of State, sell, assign, or dispose of the Whole or any Part of such Property as aforesaid, and shall execute all such lawful Matters for carrying this Act into execution as such Principal Secretary of State shall from Time to Time direct. XI. And be it further enacted, That the said Receiver of the Metropolitan Police District, out of the Monies so received by him on account of the said Horse Patrol, shall from Time to Time pay to the Horse Patrol such Salaries, Wages, and Allowances, and at such Periods, as One of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State shall direct, and also any extraordinary Expences which they shall appear to have necessarily incurred in apprehending Offenders, and executing the Orders of either of the Justices, such Expences being first examined and approved by One of the said Justices; and the Receiver shall likewise pay any further Sums which such Principal Secretary of State shall direct to be paid to any of the Persons belonging to the said Horse Patrol, as a Reward for extraordinary Diligence or Exertion, or as a Compensation for Wounds or severe Injuries received in the Performance of their Duty, or as an Allowance to such of them as shall be disabled by bodily Injury received, or shall be worn out Such Monies to be paid into the Bank of Eng land. Extending certain Powers of Act 10 G. 4. to this Act. Horses, Arms, &c. of Horse Patrol vested in Receiver of Metropolitan Police. The said Re- pences connect- by Certain Provi sions of recited by Length of Service, and he shall also pay all other Charges and Expences which such Principal Secretary of State shall direct to be paid for carrying this Act into execution. XII. And be it further enacted, That all the Provisions contained in the herein-before mentioned Act for the Punishment of Act extended to Offences and Recovery and Application of Penalties shall be this Act. Horse Patrol not to be allowed to vote, or otherwise interfere in Elections, ex cept in discharge of their official Duties. Act may be altered. deemed and taken to extend to any Offence committed against this Act, so far as the same may be applicable, as fully and entirely as if the same were herein expressed and enacted. XIII. And be it enacted, That no Person who after the passing of this Act may be appointed to the said Horse Patrol shall, during the Time that he shall continue a Member thereof, or within Six Calendar Months after he shall have quitted the same, be capable of giving his Vote for the Election of a Member to serve in Parliament for the Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Hertford, Essex, or Kent, or for any City or Borough within the Metropolitan Police District, nor shall, by Word, Message, Writing, or in any other Manner, endeavour to persuade any Elector to give or dissuade any Elector from giving his Vote for the Choice of any Person to be a Member to serve in Parliament for any such County, City, or Borough; and if any such Person belonging to the said Horse Patrol shall offend therein he shall forfeit the Sum of One hundred Pounds, to be recovered by any Person who will sue for the same by Action of Debt to be commenced within Six Calendar Months after the Commission of the Offence; and one Moiety of the Sum so recovered shall be paid to the Informer, and the other Moiety thereof to the Receiver for the Metropolitan Police District, to be by him added to and applied as Part of the Funds for the Purposes of the said Horse Patrol: Provided always, that nothing in this Enactment contained shall subject any such Person belonging to the said Horse Patrol to any Penalty for any Act done by him at or concerning any of the said Elections in the Discharge of his official Duty. XIV. And be it further enacted, That this Act may be amended, altered, or repealed by any Act to be passed in the present Session of Parliament. CA P. LI. An Act for converting the Richmond General Penitentiary now exists for the Accommodation and Classification of Prisoners in the County of the City of Dublin, and to make • other Provisions respecting the Prisons in the said County of the City of Dublin' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present The Lord Lieu- Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, at any Time after the passing of this Act, by Warrant under his or their Hand and Seal, tenant may transfer the Richmond General Peni 8 Seal, to grant and convey the Prison called the Richmond General tentiary to the Penitentiary, and the Site thereof, and the Courts, Yards, Out- Commissioners offices, Buildings, and Appurtenances belonging thereto, to the appointed by the Grand Jury. Commissioners appointed in the last Hilary Term by the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Dublin for causing an additional Prison for Male Felons to be built within the Boundary Walls of the Richmond Bridewell, their Heirs and Assigns, in Trust for the Uses and Purposes of this Act, and of an Act made and passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the 7 G. 4. c. 74. Laws relating to Prisons in Ireland; and the said Richmond General Penitentiary, and the Site thereof, and the Courts, Yards, Out-offices, Buildings, and Appurtenances thereto belonging, shall thereupon become and be vested in the said Commissioners accordingly, and shall be deemed and taken to be, to all Intents and Purposes, Part of the said County of the City of Dublin, and to be one of the Prisons of and for the said County of the City of Dublin, and be subject to all the Rules, Regulations, and Provisions contained in the said recited Act, or any other Act or Acts passed or to be passed for the Regulation of the Prisons within the said City, and the Classification and Custody of Prisoners therein, and the Duty of the several Officers and Attendants belonging thereto, save as the same may be altered by this Act; and the Removal of any Prisoner who might by Law be confined in any Prison within the County of the City of Dublin to or from the said Richmond General Penitentiary shall not be deemed an Escape of such Prisoner, although in such Removal he or she may be brought into or through some Part of the County of Dublin. The Expences of repairing Buildings, Salaries of Officers, Prisoners to be paid by Grand and Support of II. And be it further enacted, That all and every the Expence of altering, enlarging, and repairing the said Prison, and of paying the Salaries and Allowances of the Gaolers, Keepers, Local Inspectors, Matrons, Servants, Turnkeys, and their Assistants, Medical and other Officers to be appointed to the said Prison, or to any House of Correction within the same, or within the Boundary Wall thereof, and of the providing Food, Fuel, Furniture, Utensils, Jury PresentBedding, Clothing, and other Necessaries for the Prisoners therein, ment. shall be raised by Presentment of the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Dublin; and in case such Grand Jury shall at any Time refuse or neglect to make such Presentment or Provision after having been properly called upon and directed by the Court or Judges to make the same, then and in every such Case the said Court or Judges are hereby empowered and required to direct that the Amount of the Sum which ought to have been presented shall be added to the Warrant of the Treasury of the said County of the City of Dublin, and the same shall be raised, levied, applotted, and assessed in like Manner as any Presentment duly made upon the said County. III. And be it further enacted, That the Local Inspector, Chaplains, Surgeon, Physician, and Apothecary of the said Prison shall be appointed from Time to Time by the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Dublin as provided by the said recited Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of King George the Fourth for the Prisons now established in the said County of the City of Dublin, Local Inspector, Jury; Gaolers, tenant. the Lord Lieu- Dublin, and that the Keepers, Matrons, and other Attendants, Servants and Turnkeys, and their Assistants, of and for the said Prisons, shall be appointed by the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, according to such Establishment and with such Salaries and Allowances as shall be certified from Time to Time by the Inspectors General of Prisons, under their Hands, to the said Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors, and approved of by him or them as being sufficient and necessary for the Care and Management of the said Prison and the Prisoners therein: Provided always, that the Sheriffs of the County of the City of Dublin shall not be answerable for the safe Custody of any Prisoner confined in the said Prison or any Part thereof, or any Building situate within the Walls thereof; and provided also, that the Keeper or Gaoler of the said Prison shall not be entitled to any Presentment for or in lieu of Fees on the Acquittal, Conviction, or Discharge of any Prisoner. The Lord Lieu IV. And whereas upon the Establishment of the said Prison under this Act it will be unnecessary to continue the Smithfield Penitentiary as a Place of Confinement for Prisoners for the Smithfield Peni-County of the City of Dublin, and the same may be conve tenant may discontinue the tentiary as a So much of niently employed as a Depôt for Prisoners convicted and sen'tenced to Transportation, or for other Purposes;' be it therefore further enacted, That when the said Prison hereby directed to be vested in the said Commissioners shall be made fit for the Reception and safe-keeping of such Prisoners as may be lawfully confined therein, and the Inspectors General of Prisons shall certify the same under their Hands to the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, and to the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Dublin, it shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland to direct, by Warrant under his or their Hand, that the said Smithfield Penitentiary shall thenceforth be discontinued to be and shall no longer be used as a Bridewell or Prison for Prisoners of or from the County of the City of Dublin, and to direct the Removal of the Prisoners then confined therein to such other Prison or Prisons in the County of the City of Dublin as to him or them may seem fit, and from thenceforth no Presentment shall be made by the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Dublin for or on account of the said Smithfield Penitentiary, or of any other Expenditure connected therewith; and the same, and all Yards, Grounds, Outhouses, Offices, and Buildings connected therewith, shall and may be employed, under the Orders of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the Time being, as a Depôt for Convicts sentenced to Transportation, or for such other Purposes as he or they may think fit; and the same shall become and be legally vested in such Person or Persons as the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland may direct, in Trust for the Purposes of this Act. V. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passing 48 G. 3. c.140. of this Act such Parts of an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year as relates to the of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled Exercise of any An Act for the more effectual Administration of the Office of a Power by Divi 9 Justice any any Power or Justice of the Peace, and for the more effectual Prevention of sional Justices Felonies, within the District of Dublin Metropolis, as relate to the over Gaols, &c. Appointment of Officer, or to the Exercise of repealed. Authority in any Gaols, Houses of Correction, Marshalseas, Bridewells, or other Prisons within the County of the City of Dublin by the Divisional Justices of the Castle Division of the Head Office of Police, be and the same are hereby repealed. Grand Jury of the County of the City of Dub lin to appoint a Board of Super intendence as in other Counties VI. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said recited Part of 7 G. 4. Act passed in the Seventh Year of the Reign of His Majesty King c. 74. repealed. George the Fourth as excepts the County of the City of Dublin from the Operation of that Part of the said Act under which the Grand Jury of every County, County of a City, or County of a Town throughout Ireland is authorized and required to appoint a Board of Superintendence, with certain Powers and Duties as in the said Act set forth, be and the same are hereby repealed; and that the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Dublin aforesaid shall and may, at the next Presenting Term after the passing of this Act, and at every succeeding Presenting Term, and they are hereby authorized and required, to appoint a Board of Superintendence of every Gaol, Bridewell, House of Correction, or other Prison within the said County of the City of Dublin, supported under the in part or in the whole by Grand Jury Presentment, under the 7 G. 4. c. 74. same Regulations, possessing the same Powers, and to perform the same Duties as are specified and set forth in the said lastrecited Act respecting the Boards of Superintendence appointed in the several Counties, Counties of Cities, and Counties of Towns respectively throughout Ireland; and that all the Provisions of the said last-recited Act relating to Boards of Superintendence shall apply to and have full Force and Effect in all Things relating to such Prisons of the said County of the City of Dublin in the same Manner as in those of every other County, County of a City, or County of a Town throughout Ireland; and in case any of the said Offices to which the said Grand Jury are by this Act authorized to appoint shall become vacant between Two Presenting Terms, then and in every such Case it shall be lawful for the said Board of Superintendence to appoint a new Officer to fill such Vacancy, who shall hold and exercise such Office until a new Appointment shall be made thereto by the said Grand Jury, as fully and effectually as such provisional Appointment might have been heretofore made by the Sheriff of the said County of the City of Dublin: Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall interfere with the Regulations in the said recited Act contained respecting the Appointment or Salaries of Medical Officers or Chaplains by the Grand Jury of the County of the City of Dublin aforesaid. Prisoners to ex VII. And be it enacted, That the Provisions of the said recited Provisions in of such Payment, shall be deemed and taken to apply and extend 6 & 7 GUL. IV. САР, ers confined in |