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Returns of persons sentenced to hard labour to be made at the several assizes by keepers of prisons in the form in schedule (F.)
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108. The keeper of every prison in Ireland shall be held responsible for the execution of every sentence to the tread wheel or other description of hard labour within the gaol, and shall previously to the first day of every assizes make out a true and just return in writing in the form in the schedule to this Act annexed marked (F.), or in some other form to be approved by the judges of his Majesty’s Court of King’s Bench, or any one or more of them, of all persons in his custody who have been sentenced to the tread wheel or other hard labour by the court at any previous assizes, specifying in such return the manner in which such sentences have been carried into execution, the particular species of labour in which such prisoners have been employed, and the average number of hours in a day for which shall be signed by such keeper, and also by the local inspector, or by one at least of the board of superintendence of such prison, who shall add thereto such observations as the case and circumstances may appear to him to require; and such return shall be delivered to the justice of assize and goal delivery, and shall be kept and filed by the proper officer amongst the records of the court.
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