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District bridewells may be appointed for confinement or prisoners for trial at or under sentence passed by quarter sessions.
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92. It shall and may be lawful for the lord lieutenant to direct that such bridewells as shall be continued shall be divided into two classes; and that one class of the said bridewells, to be selected and appointed by the lord lieutenant, shall be denominated district bridewells, to each of which bridewells a certain district within the county shall be allotted; and that all prisoners committed within such district, either for trial at or under sentence passed by the court of quarter sessions, shall be kept and remain in such district bridewell, and shall not be transmitted to the county gaol, unless some order to that effect shall be made by competent authority; and it shall and may be lawful, in the event of a crowded state of the county gaol, on the report of the local inspector thereof, for the keeper of any such district bridewell to detain therein any prisoner committed for trial at the assizes for the county, until within a reasonable time prior to the assizes: Provided always, that in case of imprisonment for a period exceeding four months, or in any case in which it shall appear to the court to be necessary, it shall and may be lawful, by the order and at the discretion of the court by whom judgment shall be passed, to send any prisoner to the county gaol or house of correction; and provided that no persons committed for debt shall be confined in any such bridewell; . . .
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