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     LAWS OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     An Act to provide for carrying out of Capital 
     
     Punishment within Prisons. 
     
     [Passed April 19, 1869.] 
     
    
   
   
    
     HEREAS, it is expedient that Capital 
     
    

    
     Punishment should be carried out within 
     
    

    
     Prisons : Be it enacted by the Administrator of 
     
    

    
     the Government, Council and Assembly, as 
     
     follows :— 
     
    
   
   
    
     I. This Act may be cited, for all purposes, 
     
     as the “ Capital Punishment Amendment Act, 
     
     1869.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     II. Judgment of Death to be executed, on 
     
     any prisoner sentenced after the passing of this 
     
     Act, on any indictment or inquisition for mur- 
     
    
   
   
    
     jury at the inquest shall inquire into and ascer- 
     
     tain the identity of the body, and whether 
     
     judgment of death was duly executed on the 
     
     offender, and the inquisition shall be in duplicate, 
     
    
   
   
    
     and one of the originals shall be delivered to 
     
     the Sheriff. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VIII. No officer of the prison, or prisoner 
     
     confined therein, shall, in any case, be a juror 
     
     on the inquest. 
     
    
   
   
    
     IX. The Administrator of the Government, 
     
     for the time being, in Council, shall, from time 
     
     to time, make such rules and regulations, to be 
     
     observed on execution of judgment of death, in 
     
     every prison, as he may, from time to time, 
     
     deem expedient, for the purpose, as well of 
     
     guarding against any abuse in such. execution, 
     
     as also of giving due solemnity to the same, and 
     
     of making known without the prison walls the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     der or arson, shall be carried into effect within 
     
     the walls of the Prison in which the prisoner is 
     
     confined at the time of execution. 
     
    
   
   
    
     III. The Sheriff charged with the execution, 
     
     and the J ailor, Chaplain and Surgeon, of the 
     
     Prison, and such other officer of the Prison as 
     
     the Sheriff requires, shall be present at the 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' execution. 
     
    
   
   
    
     IV. Any Justice of the Peace for the County 
     
     in which such Prison is situate and such relatives 
     
     of the prisoner or other persons as it seems to 
     
     the Sheriff, or the visiting Justices of the Pri- 
     
     son, prOper to admit within the Prison for 
     
     the purpose, may also be present at the exe- 
     
     cution. ’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     V. As soon as may be, after judgment of 
     
     death has been executed on the offender, the 
     
     Surgeon of the prison shall examine the body of 
     
     the offender, and shall ascertain the fact of 
     
     death, and shall sign a certificate thereof and 
     
     deliver the same to the Sheriff. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VI. The Sheriff, and J ailor, and Chaplain of 
     
     the Prison, and such Justices and other persons 
     
     present (if any), as the Sheriff requires or allows, 
     
     shall also sign a declaration to the effect that 
     
     judgment of death has been executed on the 
     
     offender. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VII. Any coroner of the County in which 
     
     such prison is situate, and wherein judgment of 
     
     death is executed on any offender, shall, within 
     
     twenty-four hours after the execution, hold an 
     
     inquest on the body of the offender, and the 
     
    
   
   
    
     fact that such execution is taking place. 
     
    
   
   
    
     X. All such rules and regulations shall be 
     
     laid before the Legislature, within six weeks 
     
     after the making thereof, or, if the Legislature 
     
     be not then sitting, within fourteen days after 
     
     the next sitting thereof. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XI. If any person knowingly and wilfully 
     
     signs any false certificate or declaration required 
     
     by this Act, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 
     
     and, on conviction thereof, shall be liable, at 
     
     the discretion of the Supreme Court, to impri- 
     
     sonment for any term not exceeding two years, 
     
     with or without hard labor, and with or without 
     
     solitary confinement. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XII. Every certificate and declaration, and 
     
     the duplicate of the inquisition, required by this 
     
     Act, shall, in each case, be sent, with all con- 
     
     venient speed, by the Sheriff, to the Adminis- 
     
     trator of the Government, for the time being, 
     
     and printed COpies of the same several instru- 
     
     ments shall, as soon as possible, be exhibited, 
     
     and shall, for twenty-four hours, at least, be 
     
     kept exhibited on or near the principal entrance 
     
     of the prison within which judgment of death is 
     
     executed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XIII. The duties and powers by this Act im- 
     
     posed on, or vested in, the Sheriff, may be 
     
     performed by, and shall be vested in, his under 
     
     Sheriff, or other lawful Deputy acting in his ab- 
     
     sence and with his authority, and any other 
     
     officer charged, in any case, with the execution 
     
     of judgment of death.