1820 ARTICLE 7.

moil Council of the city of Westminster, and all expense attending such
direction and supervision shall be borne by the city of Westminster. The
labor may be performed upon any of the streets and alleys of the city of
Westminster, and upon the county roads leading into said city, and may
include every service necessary to grading, macadamizing and repaving
such streets and alleys, and said public roads.

1892, ch. 624, SEC. 3.

304. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners of Carroll
County, after the passage of this Act, upon the request of the Mayor and
Common Council of the City of Westminster, to deliver at such places
and in such quantities as the said Mayor and Common Council shall desig-
nate, stone of a character suitable to be broken with stone hammers and
fit for road making and improvements, such stone to be used only on the
public roads of the county; and the said County Commissioners shall also
furnish upon an order of the Mayor and Common Council of the City of
Westminster, sufficient stone hammers to break the stone necessary for
the improvement of the public roads designated in Section 303.

1892, ch. 624, sec. 4.

305. Eight hours shall constitute a day's work at hard labor, and such
hard labor shall be performed between the hours of 8 o'clock A. M. and
5 o'clock P. M. No prisoner sentenced under this Act shall be exempt
from hard labor except through physical inability, properly certified to
by the physician to the jail. Should any prisoner or prisoners prove re-
fractory and stubborn, and refuse to work or to perform the work in a
proper manner, the sheriff shall place such prisoner or prisoners in close
confinement, solitary if possible, within the jail, there to be kept on bread
and water until he or they submit to perform his or their work properly,
and obey orders from the authority under whose supervision he or they
must work. The time of refusal to work shall not be deducted from the
sentence of any person or persons who shall so refuse.

1892, ch. 624, sec. 5.

306. All beggars and vagabonds who roam about from place to place,
without any lawful business or occupation, sleeping in outhouses, barns,
sheds, or in the open air, and not giving a good account of themselves,
shall be deemed vagrants and liable to the penalties of this Act.

1892, ch. 624, sec. 6.

307. The Sheriff of Carroll County shall report to the Mayor and
Common Council of Westminster, or to the officer of the City of West-
minster under whose supervision the hard labor provided for in this
Act is to be performed, immediately upon their reception into jail, the
name of all prisoners sentenced to hard labor and the length of sentence
of each. The said sheriff of Carroll County shall deliver to the officer of
Westminster under whose supervision the hard labor contemplated by