GARRETT COUNTY. 2737

by the Circuit Court for Garrett County, or any justice of the peace for
Garrett County having criminal jurisdiction, said Court or justice shall
also in said sentence direct that any prisoner over sixteen years of age
who may be so sentenced shall be subject to perform labor for and during
the period of his imprisonment on the public roads of Garrett county, or
on the public streets of any incorporated town in said county; provided,
that during the employment of such prisoner on the public streets of any
incorporated town, the town authorities of such town so employing such
prisoner shall be charged with the expense which may attend such employ-
ment, and provided further, that this Act shall not apply to female pris-
oners.

See secs. 121 and 500.

1927, ch. 655, sec. 254B.

126. The labor provided for in 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 super-
vision and direction of the County Commissioners, or the road supervisor
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 prisoner 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
incorporated town therein.

See sec. 122.

1927, ch. 655, sec. 254C.

127. 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 prisoner 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 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 50 refuse, and this provision 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. 123.