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at the time of the inquisition, the said Court, or the said judge, as the case
may be, shall order such insane or lunatic convict to be removed from the
jail where he is confined and placed in a sanatorium, hospital or other
place where he may receive care and treatment, and there be confined at
the expense of the city or county wherein such jail is situated, until he
shall have recovered his reason and be discharged by due course of law;
provided, however, if such convict recover his reason before the expiration
of the term for which he was committed to the jail from which he was taken,
the Court of the judge that ordered his removal therefrom may order such
convict, upon such recovery of his reason, to be returned to the jail from
which he was removed, and to be confined there until the said term expires,
or may order his discharge, in its or his discretion. The provisions of this
section shall not apply to the Baltimore City Jail.
See secs. 315 and 694 and art. 59, sec. 46.

Convict Road Force.

An. Code, sec. 677. 1916, ch. 211, sec. 1.

712. The majority of any Board of County Commissioners or other
Board in control of the public roads and bridges of any County in the State
of Maryland, shall be and they are hereby authorized to employ upon the
public roads or bridges of such County as a convict road force, any or all
males sentenced to serve terms in the County Jails of their respective
Counties, who are in the judgment of the representatives of said County
Roads Board physically able to perform such work; and it shall be the duty
of the said County Roads Board to provide for the guarding, transportation,
lodging, feeding and medical attention of convicts when so employed.
See secs. 579 and 676 and art. 91, sec. 39.

An. Code, sec. 678. 1916, ch. 211, sec. 2.

713. The said County Roads Board is hereby authorized to request the
Board of Welfare to furnish such additional prisoners as may be profitably
employed in the repair or construction of the public roads or bridges of said
County, and it shall be the duty of the Board of Welfare 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 Board of Welfare all expenses of
guarding, transporting and maintaining the state convicts when said con-
victs 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 Board of
Welfare to furnish State convicts, then the Board of Welfare 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 atten-
tion as provided in Section 712.

An. Code, sec. 679. 1916, ch. 211, sec. 3.

714. Any convict escaping or attempting to escape shall on conviction
before a Justice of the Peace or before the Circuit Court of the County in