Rothwell Gaol Act 1845
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1845 c. 72 |
| Year | 1845 |
(8 & 9 Vict.) C A P. LXXII.
[31st July 1845]
'WHEREAS the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, in right of Her Duchy ofLancaster , is seised of the Honor of Pontefract , in the West Riding of the County of York , and there now is within the said Honor a certain Common Gaol or Prison known by the Name of ‘Rothwell Gaol,’ and the recent Alterations in the Law relating to the Imprisonment of Debtors having caused the Number of Prisoners ordinarily confined in the said Gaol to be very small, it has become expedient that after the Period herein-after mentioned no Person or Persons should be committed into Custody to such Gaol, and that Persons committed into Custody from the Court Baron of the said Honor should be committed to and imprisoned in the County Gaol or Prison atYork known by the Name of ‘York Castle:’ And whereas Doubts have been entertained whether Commitments from the said Court Baron may lawfully be made to York Castle; and it is expedient that such Doubts should be removed:' May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted; and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That on, from, and after the FirstDay ofFebruary which will be in the Year One thousand eight hundred and forty-six no Person or Persons shall be committed or ordered to stand committed into Custody by or from any of Her Majesty's Courts at Westminster , or the said Court Baron, or any other Court whatsoever, or by or under any Writ, Warrant, Precept of Execution, or Process whatsoever, to Rothwell Gaol, nor shall any Person or Persons (except as herein-after is excepted) be imprisoned therein, but the said Gaol (except so far as relates to any Person or Persons then in Custody therein) shall cease to be and to be used as a Gaol or Prison.
II Prisoners from Courts at Westminster to be removed to York Castle, by Warrant of the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's Bench.
II. And be it enacted, That if on the said First Day ofFebruary there shall be, besides such Prisoner or Prisoners, if any, as shall then be in the Custody of the Keeper of Rothwell Gaol under any Process of the said Court Baron, any Prisoner or Prisoners in the Custody of the Keeper of Rothwell Gaol by or under any Writ, Warrant, Precept, or Process whatever, the said Keeper shall, within One Week from the said First Day of February , certify under his Hand to the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench a true List containing the Name or Names of such Prisoner or Prisoners as last mentioned, with the Cause and Time of his or their Commitment respectively; and as soon thereafter as may be the said Lord Chief Justice shall issue his Warrant or Warrants under his Hand, directed to the...
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