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Penalty on conveying spirituous liquors into prisons.
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110. If any person shall carry or bring, or attempt or endeavour to carry or bring, into any prison in Ireland, any spirituous or fermented liquor, unless under the order of some competent authority, it shall be lawful for the keeper or other officer to apprehend or cause to be apprehended such offender, and to carry such offender before a justice of the peace, who is hereby empowered to hear and determine such offence in a summary way; and if such justice shall lawfully convict such person of such offence, he shall forthwith commit such offender to the common gaol or house of correction, there to be kept in custody for any time not exceeding three months, without bail or mainprize, unless such offender shall immediately pay down such sum of money, not exceeding twenty pounds, as such justice shall impose upon such offender; to be paid, one moiety to the informer, and the other moiety to the treasurer of the county, in aid of the maintenance of such prison; and if any keeper of any prison, or any prisoner or other person, shall sell, use, lend, or give away, or knowingly permit or suffer to be sold, used, lent, or given away, in such prison, or brought into the same, any spirituous or fermented liquors, he shall for every such offence, over and above any other punishment by this Act inflicted, forfeit and lose the sum of twenty pounds; or if a prisoner, he or she shall in lieu of such penalty be placed in solitary confinement for any period not exceeding one calendar month.
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