3248 ARTICLE 15.

1929, ch. 216, sec. 186B.

332. 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 Kent 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 Kent County, upon the demand of any
bailiff, supervisor or other persons duly authorized to make such demand,
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 high-
ways of Kent County within or without the limits of any incorporated
town therein.

1929, ch. 216, sec. 186C.

333. 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 so refuse, and this provision shall
be included in the sentence of the Court of 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 suffi-
cient to excuse such labor.

1929, ch. 216, sec. 186D.

334. 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 misde-
meanor, and upon indictment and conviction of such offense in the Cir-
cuit Court for Kent County, be fined not less than twenty nor more than
fifty dollars, or be confined in the county jail of the county, and be sub-
ject to the same penalty of labor, or both, in the discretion of the Court.

ROCK HALL.

1908, ch. 171, sec. 1 (p. 884).

335. The inhabitants of Rock Hall, in Kent county, Maryland, are
hereby incorporated and created a corporate body under the name and
style of "The Mayor and Councilmen of Rock Hal,"' and by that name