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Local Temporary Penitentiary Houses.
Cap. 74- GEORGII III. REGIS. 1405
or other proper Places, within each respective County
which houses of Correcttion, or other proper Places, shall,
during such Time, be deemed and esteemed to be Penitentiary
Houses, to all Intents and Purposes, within
the Meaning of this Act, except only with regard to the
Appointment of Officers and Servants, and other interior
Regulations of such Houses, directed by this Act;
all of whom shall be transferred to the Penitentiary Houses as soon as they are ready for their Reception.
and when such Certificate shall be made as aforesaid, the
Offenders then imprisoned in such Houses of Correction,
or other Places, by virtue of this Act, shall be transferred
to such new-erected Penitentiary Houses, for the Residue
of the several Terms during which they were ordered and
adjudged to be imprisoned; and the Justices of the peace
for every County, at their several Quarter Sessions to
be holden next after the Feast of Saint Thomas the
Martyr, in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and seventy-five, or at any Adjournment of the
same Sessions, are hereby required to give Directions
for the temporary Reception, safe Custody, Employment,
and due Regulation of such Offenders, the Expenses of
which, being previously examined and allowed by the said
Justices at their Quarter Sessions, shall be paid by the Treasurer of each respective County, who shall be allowed
the same in his Accounts.
Any Male convicted, in England or Wales, of any Crime (except Petty Larceny) punishable by Transportation, may, if of competent Age and bodily Strength, be kept to Hard Labour in cleansing the Thames, &c. for any Term not less than One Year, nor more than Seven Years.
27. And, for the more severe and effectual Punishment of
atrocious and daring Offenders, be it further enacted,
That, from and after the first Day of July, One thousand
seven hundred and seventy-nine, where any Male
Person, at any Session of Oyer and Terminer, or Gaol
Delivery, to be holden for the County of the City of
London, or for any other County within that Part of
Great Britain called England, or for the Royal franchise
of Ely, or at any Great Session to be holden for the
County Palatine of Chester, or within the Principality
of Wales, shall be lawfully convicted of Grand Larceny,
shall be liable by Law to be transported to any Parts
beyond the Seas, it shall and may be lawful for the
Court before whom any such Person shall be so convicted,
or any Court holden for the same Place with the Authority,
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