Recognisances (Ireland) Act, 1817

Petitioners in the county gaol may be removed to the bridewell of any town where the sessions are held.

30. Whenever the general sessions of the peace for any county in Ireland shall be held in any city or town of such county, other than that in or near to which the county gaol shall be, the sheriff of such county shall at any time, not more than one week before the first day of such sessions, and he is hereby required to cause each and every prisoner in such gaol, who shall be entitled to petition such court, and shall desire the same to be removed at the expense of such person to the bridewell of such town where such sessions shall be so held, and to detain them respectively therein so long as may be necessary for the purposes of such petition, and, before the end of one week from the last day of such sessions, to cause such of them as shall not be discharged to be removed again to the county gaol.