DORCHESTER COUNTY. 2295

JAIL.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 10, sec. 191. 1884, ch. 332. 1890, ch. 529.

338. The president of the County Commissioners of Dorchester Coun-
ty, the county treasurer and the State's Attorney for said county, for the
time being, shall act as jail supervisors for said county without pay; they
shall have supervision and control of the jail and adjoining grounds, with
the right of visiting and inspecting the same at any and all times; they
shall pass and enforce all necessary rules for the protection of the health,
cleanliness and comfort of the inmates, and for the regulation of all mat-
ters connected with the general management of said jail, and all persons
sentenced to confinement in said jail, either by the circuit court for said
county, or by any justice of the peace of the State of Maryland, in and
for said county, and all persons committed to said jail and confined therein
in default of payment of any fine imposed, shall be subject, during the
time of such confinement, to work upon the public roads of said county,
or on the streets of the town of Cambridge, or such other manual labor
and work as they may be required to do by the said jail supervisors; and
the said jail supervisors are hereby empowered to make such by-laws,
rules and regulations as they may think necessary and proper, for the
clothing, regulation, management, control and conduct of such prisoners
while engaged at the work or labor assigned them by said jail supervisors,
or by the Town Commissioners of Cambridge, when hired to and in the
employ of said Town Commissioners, and any such person who shall
refuse to perform the work assigned him, or be guilty of any act of in-
subordination or misconduct, such person shall be punished by the sheriff
of said county, or h'is duly appointed deputy or special deputy, as the
rules and regulations prescribed by said jail supervisors shall provide;
and the said jail supervisors are hereby authorized and empowered, in
their discretion, to hire out for some useful employment all persons sen-
tenced to said jail, or committed and confined therein, in default of pay-
ment of fines imposed upon them as hereinbefore provided, upon such
terms as may be agreed upon, and the sheriff of said county, or his depu-
ties or special deputies, shall guard said persons while engaged at work
under this act, and while going to and returning from such work, and
shall receive such compensation therefor as may be allowed by said jail
supervisors; and said jail supervisors may allow a deduction of five days
from each month, of the period of every person committed or sentenced
as aforesaid, if he shall labor with diligence and fidelity, and shall not
be guilty of a violation of the discipline or any of the rules thereof.

JURORS.

P. L. L., 1888. Art. 10, sec. 192. 1860, Art. 10. sec. 120.

339. The County Commissioners shall annually levy such sum of
money as they shall deem sufficient to pay the expenses which may be
annually incurred by the attendance of jurors at the Circuit Court for
Dorchester County.