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Grand juries may set apart part of gaol or other contiguous building for house of correction for convicted prisoners.
Sheriff not to be answerable for persons committed to house of correction.
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89.[1]
It shall and may be lawful to and for the grand jury of any county, county of a city, or county of a town in Ireland, if they shall see fit, by their order to appoint and appropriate such part or parts of the gaol thereof, or such building or buildings contiguous or adjoining thereto, as such grand jury shall think fit, to be a house or houses of correction for the custody and punishment of convicted prisoners; and it shall and may be lawful for any grand jury in every such case to appoint a keeper or governor of such house of correction, with such salary as to such grand jury shall seem meet; and every such keeper or governor of such house of correction shall be subject and liable to, and shall obey and comply with all the rules and regulations prescribed for gaolers: Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to extend to prevent the governor or keeper of the house of correction in any county, county of a city, or county of a town, from being the keeper or governor of the common gaol: Provided also, that the sheriff shall not be answerable for the safe custody of any person who, in pursuance of any such order, shall from time to time be removed to, committed to, or detained in, any part of such gaol, or any united or contiguous buildings, so ascertained and declared to be the house of correction as aforesaid.
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