AS TO THE COURSE OF PROCEDURE FOR RECOVERING PENALTIES, ENFORCING FORFEITURES, AND PUNISHING OFFENDERS UNDER THE CUSTOMS ACTS.

241 Subsistence of prisoners committed for offences against Customs Laws.
The Commissioners of Customs may allow, and to such amount as they shall direct, any expenses incurred by any county, city, borough, liberty, division, franchise, or town corporate, for the subsistence of any person committed to hard labour in any prison in the United Kingdom under the Customs Acts, and may allow for the necessary subsistence of poor persons committed under the Customs Acts for nonpayment of a pecuniary penalty any sum not exceeding sevenpence halfpenny per diem.