Convict Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1854

Directors empowered to contract for Diet, Clothing, and Manufactures for Convict Prisons.

V. The said Directors of Prisons shall have Power to make Contracts with any Persons whosoever for the Clothing, Diet, and other Necessaries, for the Maintenance and Support of the Convicts confined in Convict Prisons in Ireland, and for the Implements and Materials for any kind of Manufacture, Trade, or Works, in which Convicts confined in such Prisons shall be employed, and also to carry on such Manufacture, Trade, or Works in such Prisons, and to sell such Goods, Wares, and Merchandise as shall be there wrought or manufactured, and also to carry on any Works in any Place outside such Prisons, where the Chief Secretary shall direct.