GAO 
GA, in Geography, a country of Africa, W. of 
Nubia, with a town of the fame ee fituated on a large. 
_ lake. e in nhabitants are ie eee and un- 
civilized. at. KE. long. 2 
GAOL, ap eriien: or or place a ial confinement 
The word is. forme d of the French geole; and that ise the 
barbarous Latin gecle, gaola, gaysla, a cage; whence the 
Picards ftill call a bird-cage gayclle. The gaoler, 
was called sy aaed and cajularius. 
gaoker fro m ja anicularius.. And fo : 
ca al him comnentarienfis, becaufe he keeps a regifter, or lit, 
of all thofe under his dy. 
aah county hath ¢ o gacls; one for debtors, which 
may be any houfe where ne fheriff pleafes; the jae for the 
peace and’ sa of the ae which is the c gaol 
23 20. the gaoler th 
ee isa feparat, 0 on Pas ~ eae his office, 
wee ITI. 
heh, 
ae 
debtor 
and ee damages to the 
Geo. TI. C 59. 
regularly wafhe 
fantly eae with frefh air b hand ventilators or 
wil 
at ni OF 
rifoners ; 3 order clothes i te melons when 
prifoners,; the expences to be pai 
or out of the public fteck of any city, 
to which the ae belong. ie ne nae ea is ip Lubjeet te to fine 
for 
fion: y 3 : ears vif fies a 
appointed for infpectng gaols at - it three t in each 
ter of a. 
The juftices in 
d, and 
paid by 
« Co® 8. 
s in the county, by a 
proportionate rate; and the juices | in + feffion ns may borro 
on mortgage of the faid rat es, any fum not lefs than go/. nor 
more than roo/. and pound the whole by yearly payments. 
aI 12 W. 19. 24 Geo o. II. C+ 54s “See Pa RI- 
&on-breaking. ‘ 
. Gaou Delivery. See Justices, and aL and Terminer 
AOL Fever. See Fevrr, and Typ 
GA AOLER, is the mafter of a a pri on 3 sean that hath the 
guftody of the place where prifoners are kepts Sherifis muit 
are - 
n to officiate in (age ac 
GAO 
nade Lach ‘perfons gaolers for whom they will anfwer: but if 
ther. , action lies againt him for as 
efeapey ke, aCe Init. 592. wee TIT. it, I 
- IC. mmon cafes the oun or poste 1s char es 
a at A Section of the party; though the ciage is 
moft ufually charged. (Wood’s Tmt: 76.) When a fheriff 
quits his office, the cuftody ed = are gaol can belong 
only tohis fucceffor. 1 136. 
By ‘and g W. III. cap. a atl and warden Hing 
az ard to connive at prifcners’ efcape, forfeits 
and his faid office, and is for ever after i incapable of ee 
ing fuch office. The office of marfhal of the king’s bench, 
and warden of the Fleet, fhall te exccuted. by thefe who 
Pas the a “a the faid prifons, or their Geputics, 
€0 - no one fhall purchafe the. office 
of gaoler, or any athe oitice per taining to the high fheriff, 
under pain of 5col. 
Where a eo is broken by thieves, the a is anfwer- 
able; not if it be Rona by neni (3 Init. 52.) Ifacri- 
mina eak the gaol, — his Sev y he 
me gay tiled by! him j in Hes 
av . 
or any 
0 
a ey or baer the ae except ay of medicine ‘i 
fhall forfeit 100/. half to the king, and half, with full c 
to him who fhall fue. Any perion bringing any fineuous 
a or ta nan on pain of sre: 10k 
The ju {tices in their feflions may 
he profits a a from 
e iecapee mate: 
this “tat paced it ‘is enacted, 
des aes 
fhall ae led and fettle atable of fees and ee o be taken 
by gaolers; and fhall order a copy of the fame to be hung 
id the vi aie of affize and quarter fefions, and another 
ie 
ha 
c. 28. valpecling the eats of fees to be’taken by gaolers; 
fhall be conformed to as if the fame were in this act’ parti- 
cularly enacted and repeated. By the fame ftatute, +t 
keeper of every gaol fhall on the firft day of every afhize 
make a return in writing to the clerk of affize or other pro- 
per ce and fhall fpecify therein the number ‘and fize of 
ir e cells, the names of the prifoners, the offences of which 
sat hades ve been guilty, the court before: which every perfoa 
was conviéted, the fentence ma : e court, if tried and con-— 
victed before any court of d, or if committed by a juftice 
of the peace, the name of {ack juftice, and the - . 
avhic 
