Prisons (Ireland) Act, 1856

Power to Grand Juries to present for and provide Cots, &c. for Use of Prisoners.

Sheets allowed to each Bed.

XII. In addition to the Articles authorized or required, under the Seventy-sixth Section of the Prisons Act, to be presented and provided for Prisoners confined in any Gaol, Bridewell, House of Correction, or other County Prison, the respective Grand Juries at the Assizes or Presenting Terms, and in the Case of the City of Dublin the Council of the Borough of Dublin, are hereby authorized, if they shall think fit, to present for and provide Cots and Hammocks for the use of such Prisoners, and the same shall in such Case be presented, paid for, and supplied in the like Way as the Articles in the said Section of the said Act mentioned; and in addition to the Bedding to be allowed to poor Prisoners mentioned in the Seventy-eighth Section of the said Act, One Pair of Sheets shall be allowed to each Bed.