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Provisions of recited Act for the abolition of prison fees, extended to prisoners confined for debt.
1 & 2 Geo. 4. c. 77.
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136. And whereas by an Act passed in the session of Parliament holden in the first and second years of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled “An Act to abolish the payment by prisoners in Ireland of gaol fees and all other fees relating to the commitment, continuance, trial, or discharge of such prisoners, and to prevent abuses by gaolers, bailiffs, and other officers,” it is amongst other things enacted, that all fees and gratuities whatever, paid or payable by any prisoner in Ireland on the entrance, commitment, continuance in custody, or discharge, of any such prisoner, to, in, or from, any prison in Ireland, shall absolutely cease and determine, and that no fee or gratuity shall be paid or payable by any such prisoner: And whereas doubts have arisen whether the provisions of the said recited Act of Parliament extends to prisoners confined for debt: Be it therefore declared and enacted, that the said recited Act, and the several clauses and provisions therein contained, do and shall extend and apply, and shall be construed to extend and apply, to prisoners confined or to be confined for debt in any prison in Ireland, in as full and ample a manner as if such prisoners had been specially mentioned therein; and that no fee or gratuity whatever shall be paid or payable by or in respect of any such prisoner (save and except in manner and in the cases specially excepted and provided for in the said recited Act); any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
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