4644 ARTICLE 21.

the supervision and discretion of the town commissioners and bailiff of
such town, and if on the public roads of Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and
Worcester counties then under the direction and supervision of the County
Commissioners or the road supervisor of any district who may be author-
ized by the County Commissioners to work same, and the labor performed
by such prisoners may include every service necessary for the purpose of
draining, grading, shelling, paving or repairing such public streets or

other highways of Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester counties
within or without the limits of any incorporated town therein.

1906, ch. 36, sec. 3.

435. The officer or other person having such prisoners 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 convicts 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 employed;
no prisoner shall be employed to perform such labor whose health is not
in a condition to allow the same, and the certificate of the physician to the
jail shall be sufficient to excuse such labor.

1906, ch. 36, sec. 4.

436. 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 Circuit
Courts for Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester counties be fined
not less than twenty dollars or more than fifty, or be confined in the county
jail.

RIGHT OF WAY.
1927, ch. 622, sec. 1.

437. Fire engines, hose trucks, auxiliary fire service trucks and other

fire apparatus and equipment of organized fire departments, including
volunteer fire companies, and ambulances, while being operated or driven

on the public roads, highways or streets in Talbot County and while sound-
ing a gong, bell, siren or other loud signal either continuously, or inter-
mittently at rapid intervals, are hereby given right of way over all vehicu-
lar and other traffic on, over and across said roads, highways and streets

and at cross roads, forks and intersections of said roads, highways and
streets, in going to, or from, a fire or the reported location of a fire; and,
in the case of ambulances, while sounding said signal as above, the same
right of way, as hereinbefore provided, is given when going for a sick
or injured person or while conveying a sick or injured person.

1927, ch. 622, sec. 2.

438. Upon the approach of any fire engine, apparatus or equipment of
any fire department or company, or of any ambulance, going to, or from,