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Sects. 20. and 21. of the Prisons Act repealed.
As to building, rebuilding, altering, and enlarging Prisons.
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VIII. The Twentieth and Twenty-first Sections of the Prisons Act shall, from and after the passing of this Act, be repealed, except as to anything heretofore done under the same; and before any Grand Jury of a County, or any Commissioners appointed by them, shall commence to build or rebuild, or to alter or enlarge any Gaol, Bridewell, House of Correction, or other County Prison, they shall transmit to the Lord Lieutenant the Plan and Specification of such proposed Building, Alteration, or Enlargement, or a Copy or Facsimile of such Plan and Specification (the same having been previously approved of by the Grand Jury), together with the Report thereon of the Inspectors General of Prisons, or One of them, and such other Reports or Certificates as the said Lord Lieutenant shall require and direct; and notwithstanding anything in the Prisons Act or this Act contained, it shall not be lawful for any Grand Jury, or any Commissioners appointed by them, to commence any such building, rebuilding, Alteration, or Enlargement, unless and until the Plan and Specification of the same shall be agreed to and approved of by the Lord Lieutenant; and it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners appointed by the Grand Jury, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to enter into Contracts for the Execution of any such Work as in the Prisons Act or this Act is authorized to be executed, after the Plan or Specification thereof shall have been approved, as herein directed, first by the Grand Jury and then by the Lord Lieutenant, and every such Contract shall be made at the most reasonable Price which shall be proposed by such Contractor as shall be deemed by the said Commissioners appointed by the Grand Jury the most responsible and proper Person to execute such Contract, and every such Contract shall be entered by the Clerk to the said Commissioners in a Book to be kept by the said Commissioners, which Book, when such Works are completed, shall, by the said Clerk to the said Commissioners, be delivered to the Clerk of the Peace of the County for the Time being, who is hereby required thenceforward to keep the same among the Records of the said County.
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