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Discharged prisoners to be supplied with the means of returning to their homes, &c.
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111. [Recital.] It shall and may be lawful for any two justices of the peace or magistrates in the county of the city of Dublin, and for the board of superintendence of any prison in any other place in Ireland, from whence any prisoner shall be discharged, to direct that such moderate sum of money shall be given and paid to any and every such prisoner so discharged, who shall not have the means of returning to his or her family or place of settlement, or resorting to any place of employment or honest occupation, as in the judgment of such justices or board shall be requisite and necessary for such purpose, under all the circumstances attending the case of any such prisoner; and such sum of money shall be paid by the inspector of such prison to or for the use of such prisoner for the purpose aforesaid; and all such sums shall be provided for, or in such manner as is by this Act directed with respect to the expence of the support and maintenance of the prisoners in any such prisons respectively.
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