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or other person duly authorized to superintend the repairing of the public
streets of said town, or the public roads of said counties, is hereby author-
ized and required to deliver to such person or official, any male prisoner
over sixteen years of age, who may be confined in said jail, under sentence
imposed by the Circuit Courts or any Justice of the Peace of said counties
in any case of assault, drunkenness, disorderly conduct, disturbing the
public peace, vagrancy. petty larceny, carrying concealed weapons, gaming
or playing at crap, in order that said bailiff or supervisor or other official
in charge of said public streets or highways may employ such prisoner at
hard labor on the public roads of Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and Wor-
cester counties, or on the public streets of any incorporated town of said
counties.

1906. ch. 36, sec. 2.

254. The hard labor provided for in the preceding section shall be
performed, if within the corporate limits of any incorporated town, under
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.

255. The officer or other person having such prisoners in charge shall
have the 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, oh, 36, sec. 4.

256. 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 misdemeanor,
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.

SIDEWALKS.
1916, ch. 167.

257. The County Commissioners of Wicomico County are hereby au-
thorized and empowered in their discretion to grant permission to abutting