The Convict Prisons Abroad Act 1859
WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the Provisions of the Acts now in force relating to the Control and Management of Offenders sent to be kept to Hard Labour in Parts of Her Majesty's Dominions out of England: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: