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ART. XXVII] CONVICT ROAD FORCE 231
1916, ch. 211, sec. 2.
678. The said County Roads Board is hereby authorized to request
the State Board of Prison Control to furnish such additional prisoners
as may be profitably employed in the repair or construction of the pub-
lic roads or bridges of said County, and it shall be the duty of the State
Board of Prison Control to furnish such prisoners as they may have
available for such work, and to provide for the guarding, transportation,
lodging, feeding, clothing and medical attention for all state convicts
employed on road or bridge work, provided, that the County Roads
Board shall refund to the State Board of Prison Control all expenses
of guarding, transporting and maintaining the state convicts when said
convicts have been furnished for road work at the request of said County
Roads Board; and when the State's convicts are employed in the same
convict road force as the convicts of the County requesting the State
Board of Prison Control to furnish State convicts, then the State Board
of Prison Control shall furnish at the expense of the County Roads
Board all necessary guards and the County Roads Board shall supply
the lodging, feeding and medical attention as provided in Section 677.
1916, ch. 211, sec. 3.
679. Any convict escaping or attempting to escape shall on convic-
tion before a Justice of the Peace or before the Circuit Court of the
County in which the offense was committed or before the Criminal
Court of Baltimore City, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and be
sentenced, to imprisonment in the institution to which he had been
previously sentenced for a term not less than three months nor for more
than one-half of the entire term for which he had been sentenced prior
to his escape or effort to escape in the discretion of the Court.
1916, ch. 211, sec. 4.
680. The County Roads Board using State convicts as provided in
Section 678 of this Article are hereby authorized and directed to pay to
the Board of Prison Control ten (10) cents per day for each and every
day that each and every State convict works upon the public roads or
bridges as provided herein, and the State Board of Prison Control is
hereby directed to hold such payments to the credit of each convict and
pay the same over to him on his release or in the discretion of the State
Board of Prison Control, one-half of the amount to the credit of each
convict may be paid to him, from time to time, or the entire amount
may be paid to the person to whom the convict may direct payment to
be made, or said payment may be made to the wife or children or other
person or persons, dependent upon said convict if found to be in need
by the said Board of Prison Control.
1916, ch. 211, sec. 5.
681. The Board of County Commissioners or other County Roads
Board of any County is hereby authorized and empowered to use such
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