PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference :-
ETC.O. 885
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
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Expenses of removal and
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ment as if such escape or attempt to escape were an escape or attempt to escape from prison, and as if the person so entrusted as aforesaid were the keeper of the prison.
Any person punishable under this section may be tried and punished in any part of Her Majesty's dominions, and the law applicable to such person shall be the law of that part of Her Majesty's dominions in which he is tried.
13. Where a prisoner is removed under this Act maintenance. on the ground of ill-health or for the more efficient carrying out of the sentence or for safer custody, or is returned under this Act, and where a criminal lunatic is removed or returned under this Act, the expenses of the removal or return of such prisoner or criminal lunatic and the cost of his maintenance in prison or in an asylum shall be payable by the possession in which he was sentenced or (in the case of a criminal lunatic) indicted or charged, and where a prisoner is removed under this Act as having been tried under an Imperial Act of Parliament, or as having been subject to the Army Act or the Navy Acts, the said expenses and costs shall be defrayed out of moneys to be voted by Parliament.
Forms.
Saving
agreements
under the
Colonial
Prisoners Removal Act, 1869.
14. The forms contained in the Schedule to this Act, or forms to the like effect, with such variations and additions as circumstances may require, may be used for the purposes therein indicated, and instruments in those forms (as regards the form thereof) shall be valid and sufficient.
15. Nothing contained in this Act shall affect any agreement already made or hereafter to be made under the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1869, or any powers or provisions contained in the Act passed in the Session holden in the 14th and 15th years of Her present Majesty, Chapter 75, or anything done or to be done under that Act, or any right of Her Majesty's Government or of the Government of any possession to recover expenses incurred in respect of a criminal lunatic from the property of such criminal lunatic or otherwise.
SCHEDULE OF FORMS.
I.
FORM OF ORder of Removal.
"The Prisoners Removal Act, 188
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To all to whom these presents shall come, I,
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one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, send greeting:
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Whereas A.B. was on the
day of
before the Supreme Court of the Presidency of (Colony
convicted of the crime of forgery (or of assault with intent to commit murder on board the British ship
on the high seas, or, as the case may be) and sentenced to penal servitude (or imprisonment with hard labour) for the term of five years, of which three years are yet unexpired:
And whereas it hath been represented to me that the health of the said AB. is likely to be permanently in- jured by further imprisonment in the said Presidency (colony): (or that the said A.B. is not a native of or domi- ciled in the said Presidency (colony), and that it is expedient that he be removed therefrom):
Now, therefore, I, as such Secretary of State as aforesaid, under and by virtue of the powers and authorities in that behalf by "The Prisoners Removal Act, 188 ," or otherwise in me vested, do hereby order that he, the said A.B., be removed to the United Kingdom (or to the Colony ), there to undergo the punishment of penal
of
servitude (or imprisonment with hard labour) for a term of years from the date of this Order, in such prison as
one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State (or the Governor of the said colony of
) shall direct.
In witness whereof I have hereunder appended my signa- ture this
188 day of
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Q. 2116,
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