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(3) For the purposes of this section the appropriate authority may borrow, and the Public Works Loan Commissioners may lend to the authority, at such rate of interest as the Treasury may determine to be sufficient to prevent any loss to the Exchequer, such sum as may be required, subject to the condition that the whole amount so borrowed shall be discharged within a period not exceeding thirty-five years.

(4) Subject to the next following subsection, the first amount mentioned in subsection (1) of this section shall be equal to one hundred and twenty pounds multiplied by the number of prisoners belonging to the prison authority mentioned in that subsection for whom separate cell accommodation was provided in the prison on the twelfth day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven.

(5) Where the prison was not the only prison belonging on the said day to the said prison authority and separate cell accommodation could have been provided on that day in any other such prison for prisoners of that authority, then, if the number of prisoners for whom cell accommodation could then have been so provided is equal to or exceeds the average daily number of prisoners maintained at the expense of the authority (whether in their own or any other prisons) during the five years immediately preceding the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, no sum shall be payable by the authority in respect of the first amount mentioned in subsection (1) of this section, and if the first-mentioned number is less than the said average number, the amount specified in subsection (4) of this section shall be reduced proportionately.

(6) Any sum payable by an appropriate authority in pursuance of this section shall be a debt due to the Crown.

(7) In this section the expression “the appropriate authority” means, in relation to any prison which immediately before the commencement of the Prison Act, 1877, belonged to the City of London or a municipal borough, the common council of the City of London or the council of that borough respectively, and in relation to any prison which then belonged to any other authority, the council of the county to which the property of that authority was transferred by the Local Government Act, 1888. Offences

39. Any person who aids any prisoner in escaping or attempting to escape from a prison or who, with intent to facilitate the escape of any prisoner, conveys any thing into a prison or to a prisoner or places any thing anywhere outside a prison with a view to its coming into the possession of a prisoner, shall be guilty of felony and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years. 16