The following acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar as they require that persons committed to county jails and prisons shall be confined separate and apart from other persons committed thereto:
Act of March 30, 1831 (P.L. 228, No. 123), entitled "An act to provide for the erection of a new prison and a debtor's apartment within the city and county of Philadelphia, and for the sale of the county prison in Walnut-street, in said city."
Section 1 , act of April 8, 1851 (P.L. 353, No. 227), entitled "An act relating to County Prisons, to the Foster Home Association, and Cawanesque Plank Road Company, to apportion the rent of wharves and docks in the port of Philadelphia, and relative to the service of process on foreign insurance companies and other corporations."
Act of July 19, 1917 (P.L. 1117, No. 378), entitled "An act providing for the establishment, in cities of the first class, of a house or houses of detention for witnesses and untried prisoners; for the commitment of such prisoners and witnesses thereto; and for the payment of the cost of establishing and maintaining the same by the county wherein said cities are situated."
Act of May 13, 1931 (P.L. 121, No. 90), entitled "An act providing for the acquisition of land, and the erection, construction and maintenance of jails and/or workhouses by cities of the first class; providing for their management and control of same by the inspectors of existing jails or prisons, and the transfer of prisoners by such inspectors."
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