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Transfer of ordinary prisons to board.
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17. All the estate and interest of any grand jury, commissioners, board of superintendence, board, or trustees in any lands buildings tenements or hereditaments used as or appertaining to any prison, and in any property, real or personal, except goods manufactured for sale, and implements tools and materials in store for the purposes of such manufacture, belonging to or appropriated to the use of any prison or belonging to or vested in any grand jury, commissioners, board of superintendence, board, or trustees in trust for prison purposes, shall be transferred to and shall vest in the General Prisons Board for the purposes of this Act, subject to any quitrents head rents or rents payable in respect of the same, but absolutely freed and discharged from all debts liabilities or engagements affecting the same;
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From and after the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight all powers jurisdictions and duties at such time vested in or imposed upon grand juries and boards of superintendence, or any members of them as justices or otherwise, with respect to prisons or the maintenance thereof or the persons confined therein, shall be transferred to and vested in the General Prisons Board, who shall exercise and perform the same, in like manner and subject to the same conditions, as near as may be, as such grand juries and boards of superintendence respectively might, but for the passing of this Act, have exercised and performed the same.
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