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Justices may commit to nearest house of correction, if none in their jurisdiction.
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238. When any person shall have been convicted of any offence against the Customs Acts for which such person is liable to be sentenced to hard labour before any justice within whose jurisdiction there is no house of correction, such justice shall and may, by warrant under his hand and seal, commit such offender to the gaol or house of correction nearest to the place where such offender is convicted; and the governor or keeper of such gaol or house of correction is hereby required to receive such offender and to obey such warrant in all respects as if such gaol or house of correction was within the jurisdiction of such justice.
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