Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1856

Chaplain may, in certain Cases, appoint Substitute.

Chaplain, &c. to report Abuses and keep a Journal.

XI. It shall be lawful for any Chaplain of any County Prison, in the Case of his Sickness or unavoidable Absence, to appoint a Clergyman of his own religious Persuasion, who shall have been approved of by the Board of Superintendence of the County Gaol, to be his Substitute for the Occasion, and the Name and Residence of such Substitute shall be specified in the Chaplain’s Journal; and every Chaplain, and every such Substitute as aforesaid, shall communicate from Time to Time to the Board of Superintendence of the County Gaol any Abuse or Impropriety which shall have come to his Knowledge; and the Journal kept by such Chaplain shall be kept in the Prison, and shall regularly be laid before the Board of Superintendence at every Meeting of such Board, and shall be signed by the Chairman of such Board in Proof of the same having been there produced.