CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 1189

An. Code, sec. 684. 1917, ch. 4, sec. 1.

719. All male prisoners confined in the Maryland Penitentiary, the
Maryland House of Correction, or any of the County, Town or City Jails,
shall be liable to labor upon the State, County and City roads and streets
in accordance with the provisions of sections 719 to 726; provided that
nothing in said sections shall apply to the Baltimore City Jail, or to the
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, or to the public highways of the City.

An. Code, sec. 685. 1917, ch. 4, sec. 2.

720. The Governor of this State may from time to time require the
Board of Welfare to certify to him the number of male prisoners confined
in the Maryland Penitentiary and in the Maryland House of Correction,
who are physically able to work upon the public roads of the State, or of any
county, city or town thereof, and who are available for such work. If the
governing body of any town or city other than Baltimore City or the County
Commissioners of any county desire the prisoners confined in the jails
under their respective jurisdictions to work "upon the public roads or streets,
then they may, in like manner, certify to the Governor the number of male
prisoners confined in the jails under their respective jurisdictions who are
physically able to work upon said public roads of the State, or of any county,
city or town thereof, and who are available for such work; provided, how-
ever, that in Frederick City, the justice of the peace who tried and com-
mitted a vagrant or other offender of a municipal law or ordinance is hereby
authorized and directed, whenever practicable, to make an assignment of
such person to employment on the county roads or on the streets of the city,
and the sheriff or other officer into whose custody said person has been
committed is hereby ordered to comply with any such order for assignment,
and the person ordered to work by the justice of the peace is to be guarded, if
he works upon the streets of the city, by the Superintendent of Streets or
by any other person deputized by the Sheriff, and if he works upon the
roads of the county, then he shall be guarded by the Road Supervisor of
the district in which the said person works, and the Sheriff is hereby author-
ized to deputize for this purpose any of the said officials or other persons
to take charge of the said persons while so employed.

An. Code, sec. 686. 1917, ch. 4, sec. 3.

721. Upon receiving such information the Governor is authorized, from
time to time, to assign such and as many of said prisoners to the State Roads
Commission as that Commission can profitably employ in the construction,
repair or maintenance of any of the public roads and bridges under its
jurisdiction, and it shall thereupon be the duty of the State Roads Com-
mission so to employ such prisoners.

An. Code, sec. 687. 1917, ch. 4, sec. 4.

722. The County Commissioners of any County and the governing body
of any town or city other than Baltimore City, may from time to time
request the Governor to furnish them, respectively, with such number of
prisoners as they can profitably employ in the construction, repair or