260 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

576. They shall regulate and provide the diet of the prisoners,
procure necessary bedding and clothing for their use; make
such repairs, alterations and improvements in and about the jail
aa they may deem necessary, and provide medicines and attend-
ance for such of the prisoners as are sick.

577. They shall keep all persons confined in said jail by
sentence of a court for offences punished by confinement therein
at hard labor in some useful employment, and shall frame such
regulations as shall be necessary to the industry, quiet and dis-
cipline of such persons, and shall have them kept separate from
persons in confinement awaiting trial or for other causes.

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578. They shall also require all vagrants, free negroes or slaves
confined in said jail to work and labor about the premises.

579. They may with their consent employ other persons con-
fined therein in such Work and labor in and about the premises
as may be consistent with their safe keeping, and shall keep an
account of the earnings of such persons, and shall upon their
discharge allow them two-thirds of the net proceeds thereof, to
be ascertained by the visitors.

580. They shall keep regular books of accounts, in which the
whole expenses of the jail, whether for supplies, salaries of
officers, repairs or incidentals, shall be distinctly stated.

581. They shall appoint a fit person as warden of the jail of
Baltimore city, who shall take charge of the prison and prisoners
therein, and exercise during his continuance !• office the same
powers and be subject to the same penalties and forfeitures and
responsible for escapes, in the same manner and to the same
extent as the sheriffs of the respective counties, and shall
perform such other duties as shall be required of him by said
visitors.

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582. He shall be entitled to collect and receive in his own
name, but for the use of the visitors, all jail fees; and in case of
dispute between the warden and any prisoner, or the owner of
any slave or master of any apprentice, in relation to the amount
of fees demanded by the warden, which shall be the subject of
contest before a justice of the peace for said city, either party
against whom judgment shall be given, whatever may be the
amount in dispute, may appeal to the Court of Common Pleas.