INDEX TO THE STATUTES- 701 Prison — cont. Under Prisons Act, 1877 : Expenses of maintenance of prisons and prisoners to be defrayed out of public funds ; termination of obligation of counties, boroughs, and other prison authorities to maintain prisons or provide prison accommodation (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. ss. 4, 16, 57. Transfer to Secretary of State of prisons belonging to prison authorities, and of powers of appointment of officers, control and custody of prisoners, and powers as to prisons and prisoners ezerciseable by prison authorities or justices in sessions (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. ss. 5, 56, 60. Legal estate in prisons vested in Prison Commissioners (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. s. 48. Payment by prison authorities to Exchequer for deficiency of prison accommodation ; compensation to authorities for accommodation provided for prisoners of other autho- rities ; payment for excess of prison accommodation ; provisions as to uncompleted prisons - - - - - - (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. ss. 17-19. Saving of rights of creditors of prison authorities ; determination of contracts between authorities; provision for payment of debts of authorities, and as to continuing contracts - - - - - (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. ss. 20-23. Discontinuance of prisons ; repurchase by prison authorities, or sale by Secretary of State, and application of proceeds - - (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. ss. 33, 34. Town halls, court houses, and sessions houses within prisons not to be transferred to Secretary of State ; power of Secretary of State to purchase (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. s. 49. Protection of prisons in nature of national monuments (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. s. 50. Power of authorities and Secretary of State to compromise or refer to arbitration (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. s. 55. Power of prison authorities to borrow for payments to Exchequer, or repurchase of dis- continued prisons, and of Public Works Loan Commissioners to lend, on securities issuable under Local Loans Act, 1875 - (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. ss. 16, 34, 46, 47. Appointment and incorporation of Prison Commissioners ; appointment of inspectors and officers (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. ss. 6-8, 45. Duties of Commissioners, as to appointment of subordinate officers of prisons, contracts for maintenance of prisons and prisoners, visitation, inspection, and regulation of prisons ; exercise by Commissioners of powers of visiting justices, and application to Commissioners of enactments as to visiting justices (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. ss. 9, 45. Reports by Commissioners ; reports as to manufacturing processes in prisons ; returns of punishments inflicted - - - (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. ss. 10-12. Appointment, duties, and powers of visiting committees of justices ; visits to prisons by any justices (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. ss. 13-15. Appointment of prisons for confinement of prisoners before and during trial ; appropria- tion of prisons for convicted criminals, and for debtors and prisoners not criminal ; commitment, removal, legal custody, and conveyance of prisoners (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. ss. 24-28. Appointment of prisons as prisons for counties, &c. for purposes of enactments, &c. re- ferring to prisons of counties, &c. ; saving of jurisdiction of sheriffs, coroners, &c. (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. s. 30. Abolition of liability of sheriff for escape ; jurisdiction and responsibility of sheriff as to prisoners under sentence of death - - (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. ss. 31, 32. Status and duties of existing prison officers; superannuation, and compensation on abolition of office .... (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. ss. 35-53. Treatment of prisoners. See above; and Prisoner. Proof of rules of Secretary of State ; rules to be laid before Parliament (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. s. 51. Repeal of inconsistent enactments ... (E.) 40 & 41 Vict. c. 21. s. 51. See also Army; Assault; Assizes; Bath City Prison; Capias ad Satis- faciendum; Capital Punishment; County Court; Coventry; Ely; Escape; Falmouth; Gaoler; Hertfordshire; Imprisonment; Indus- trial School ; Liberty ; Lunatic, *, 5 ; Middlesex ; Oxford University ; Penal Servitude ; Pontefract; Prescription; Prisoner; Reformatory; Rescue; Ripon; Sussex; Transportation; Vagabond; Worcester. Prison, Scotland. What is lawful -------- 20 Geo. 2. c. 43. 21 Geo. 2. c. 19. Sale of spirits in - - - - - - - - 24 Geo. 2. c. 40. Introduction of letters, spirits, tobacco, or other prohibited articles into 23 & 24 Vict. c. 105. s. 75. Records to be kept at- - - - - - -9 Geo. 4. c. 29. Inspection of. See Prison ; and below.
