Search of visitors

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Statutory text

(1) The Jailor may demand the name and address of any visitor to any prisoner ; and, when the Jailor has any ground for suspicion, may search any visitor, or cause him to be searched, but the search shall not be made in the presence of any prisoner or of another visitor.
(2) In case of any such visitor refusing to permit himself to be searched, the Jailor may deny him admission ; and the grounds of such proceeding, with tthe particulars thereof, shall be entered in such record as [the Government] may direct.

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