2736 AETICLE 12.
1912, ch. 597, sec. 3.
122. The hard labor provided for iu the preceding section shall be per-
formed, if within the corporate limits of any incorporated town, under
the supervision and direction of the town commissioners and bailiff of
such town, and if on the public roads of Garrett county then under the
supervision and direction of the County Commissioners, or the road super-
visor of any district who may be authorized by the County Commissioners
to work the same; and the Sheriff of Garrett county, upon the demand of
any bailiff, supervisor or other persons duly authorized to make such de-
mand, is hereby authorized and required to deliver such prisoner to the
party so making the demand and entitled to receive the same, whenever
and at such times as he may be so legally required; and the labor to be
performed by such convict may include every service necessary for the
purpose of draining, grading, paving or repairing such public streets or
other highways of Garrett county within or without, the limits of any in-
corporated town therein.
See sec. 126.
1912, ch. 597, sec. 4.
123. The officer or other person having such prisoner in charge shall
have power and authority to compel such labor, and shall be responsible
for the safe keep and return to prison of such convict to the custody of the
sheriff at the end of each day's labor, which day's labor shall be within
the discretion of the officer or other person so supervising at the time, but
shall not exceed ten hours' work or labor for any day he may be so em-
ployed; and any prisoner so convicted and sentenced who shall refuse to
perform the labor required of him, shall incur the penalty of two days'
additional imprisonment for every day he may so refuse, and this provi-
sion shall be included in the sentence of the Court or justice by whom
the same may be rendered; but no prisoner shall be compelled to perform
such labor whose health is not in a condition to allow the same, and the
certificate of the physician to the jail or other physician in said county
shall be sufficient to excuse such labor.
See sec. 127.
1912, ch. 597, sec. 5.
124. If any officer or other person having such prisoner in charge for
the performance of such work or labor, connive at or by his wilful neglect
permit the escape of any such prisoner, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon indictment and conviction of such offence in the Circuit Court
for Garret County, be fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty dol-
lars, or be confined in the county jail of the county, and be subject to the
same penalty of hard labor, or both, in the discretion of the Court.
See sec. 128.
1927, ch. 655, sec. 254A.
125. In addition to any sentence of confinement in the County Jail of
Garrett County which may be imposed for failure to pay any fine or fines
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