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Lord Lieutenant to appoint Directors of Convict Prisons.
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IV. It shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant to appoint not more than Three Persons to be Directors of the said Convict Prisons, with such Salaries as the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury shall approve, and the said Directors shall, subject to the Directions which they may from Time to Time receive from the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, have the Control and Management of all the said Convict Prisons, and of all Prisoners confined therein; and it shall and may be lawful for the Lord Lieutenant to appoint One of such Persons to be Chairman of such Directors, and One of them, or One other Person, to act as Secretary and Accountant, and from Time to Time to remove any of such Persons to be so appointed, and to appoint another or others in his or their Stead; and the said Directors shall be One Body Politic and Corporate, by the Name of the “Directors of Convict Prisons for Ireland,” and by that Name have perpetual Succession and a Common Seal, and by that Name shall and may sue and be sued, and shall have Power and Authority to take and purchase and hold Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments to them, their Successors and Assigns, for the Purposes of this Act, or any other Act or Acts amending the same.
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