4268 ARTICLE 18.

1910, oh. 35, sec. 2 (p. 1072).

380. All laws or sections or parts of all laws conflicting or inconsistent
with any provision or provisions of this Act are hereby repealed so far
as the same or any of the same conflict or are inconsistent with any pro-
vision or provisions of this Act, saving and excepting Chapter 141 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland passed at the January Ses-
sion, 1908, and the amendments thereto, and Chapter 225 of the Acts of
the General Assembly of Maryland passed at the January Session, 1904,
and the amendments thereto, which said two last-mentioned Acts and
amendments thereto shall in no manner be repealed or amended by the
passage of this Act.

PRISON LABOR.

1892, ch. 437.

381. Whenever any person shall have been convicted of any crime or
misdemeanor, or any offence against, or violation of any law, State, county,
or municipal and as a punishment therefor has been committed to the
county jail of said county by the judgment of the Circuit Court of said
county, or any justice of the peace thereof, it shall be lawful for the county
commissioners of said county to, and they are hereby authorized and em-
powered to employ or cause to be employed any such convict or person so
committed to jail as aforesaid in manual labor in working, mending and
repairing the public roads of said county, and the public streets of the-
town of Centreville in said county, and are hereby fully authorized and
empowered to pass all necessary rules and regulations to prevent the es-
cape of such convicts or persons so committed to jail as aforesaid, while
so employed, and to carry this law into full and efficient operation and
effect.

SCHOOLS.*

1912, ch. 705, sec. 6.

382. Each of said three Boards of County School Commissioners shall
contribute annually such sum or sums of money as shall be necessary or
proper for the maintenance of said high school, f the amount to be paid
by such board to be in proportion to the number of pupils attending from
each of said counties, respectively, and enrolled in said high school on the
15th day of January, in each year, as based on the total enrollment of said
school on the said fifteenth day of January in each year, and the princi-
master of said school shall enter in the roll book of the county in which
each pupil enrolled resides.

*Queen Anne's County has been authorized to issue bonds for schools as follows:
1912, oh. 769, $25,000; 1920, ch. 445, $20,000; 1922, ch. 41, $33,000; 1929, ch. 86,
$20,000.

+ The other sections provided for the erection of a high school in the town of
Queen Anne under Joint supervision and at joint expense of Caroline, Talbot and
Queen Anne's Counties.