The Convict Prisons Act 1853
An Act for providing Places of Confinement in England or Wales for Female Offenders under Sentence or Order of Transportation. [20th August 1853.] WHEREAS by Section Ten of an Act of the Fifth Year of King George the Fourth, Chapter Eighty-four, it was enacted, that it should be lawful for His Majesty from Time to Time, by Warrant under His Royal Sign Manual, to appoint Places of Confinement within England or Wales, either at Land, or on board Vessels to be provided by His Majesty in the Rive...