An Act for enabling the Justices of Counties to contract in certain Cases for the Maintenance and Confinement of convicted Prisoners in the Gaols of adjoining Counties.
WHEREAS by an Act passed in the Fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for effecting greater Uniformity of Practice in the Government of the several Prisons in England and Wales, and for appointing Inspectors of Prisons in Great Britain, it was enacted, that it should be lawful for His said Majesty, by an Order to be notified in Writing by One of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, to direct that any Persons in Prison within England and...