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Poor prisoners shall be kept to work.
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104. The keeper of each and every prison in Ireland shall have full power and authority, and he is hereby required, to keep every poor prisoner in such prison to work of such kind as the grand jury or board of superintendence, or in their default any three justices of the peace respectively, shall direct and appoint, by any order to be made for that purpose: Provided always, that no person shall be put to hard labour who has not been convicted of some offence, and sentenced to imprisonment for the same.
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