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or any road supervisor or other official who may be authorized by the
County Commissioners to work the same; and the Sheriff of Montgomery
County, upon the demand of any supervisor or other persons duly author-
ized 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 highways of Montgomery County.

1929, ch. 301, sec. 168C.

270. 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
sufficient to excuse such labor.

1929, ch. 301, sec. 168D.

271. If any officer or other person having such prisoner in charge for
the performance for 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 offense in the Circuit Court
for Montgomery County, be fined not less than one hundred dollars
($100.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or be con-
fined in the county jail for not less than thirty (30) days nor more than
six (6) months, and be subject to the same penalty of labor, or both, in
the discretion of the Court.

1929, ch. 301, sec. 168E.

272. The County Commissioners of Montgomery County are author-
ized to pay each prisoner employed under the provisions of this Act at the
end of his term at the rate of seventy-five cents ($0.75) per day for the
actual days worked on public roads.

DEEDS OF TRUST.

1927, ch. 493, sec. 183.

273. From and after the passage of this Act any instrument conveying
real estate in Montgomery County whereby the same is conveyed to a