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Counties and Boroughs adjoining may enter into Agreements for providing a joint Common Gaol for County and Borough.
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XXXVII. It shall be lawful for the Grand Jury of any Borough which shall be a County of a City or a County of a Town, or the Council of any such Borough where such Council shall have Jurisdiction over the Prisons of such Borough, and whether or not the said Grand Jury or Council may have agreed with the Grand Jury of any County for the Maintenance by Contract of the Prisoners of such Borough, to contract and agree, in manner and subject to the Provisions herein-after contained, with the Grand Jury of any County immediately adjoining such Borough, for the Payment of any Sum or Sums of Money by either or both of the Parties to any such Agreement, towards altering, enlarging, building, rebuilding, repairing, or improving any Prison situated or to be situated within such County or Borough, to be thenceforth used as the joint Common Gaol for such County and Borough, and either in addition to or in substitution for the existing Prisons of such County or Borough, or either of them, and towards the Expense and Maintenance, clothing, safe Custody, and Punishment of the Persons committed thereunto, including their Committal and Conveyance to and from Prison, and all other Expenses of the said Prison, and to and in such joint Prison when the same shall be certified as is hereafter directed, may be removed, committed, and imprisoned all Criminals, Debtors, and other Persons who might theretofore have been lawfully committed to or imprisoned in the Common Gaol, House of Correction, or other Prison of the County or of the Borough which shall be a Party to any such Agreement.
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