WORCESTER COUNTY. 5301
PRISON LABOR.

1906, oh. 36. 1920 Code, sec. 383.

286. The Sheriff of Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester Coun-
ties, or his jailor, upon the demand of the bailiff of any incorporated
town in said counties, or of any supervisor of any public road of said
counties, or other person duly authorized to superintend the repairing of
the public streets of said town, or the public roads of said counties, is
authorized 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, dis-
turbing the public peace, vagrancy, petty larceny, carrying concealed
weapons, gaming or playing at crap, in order that said bailiff or super-
visor or other official in charge of said public streets or highways may
employ such prisoner at hard labor on the public roads of Somerset, Tal-
bot, Wicomico and Worcester Counties, or on the public streets of any
incorporated town of said counties.

1906, ch. 36. 1920 Code, sec. 384.

287. The hard labor provided for in the preceding section shall be per-
formed, if within the corporate limits of any incorporated town, under
the supervision and discretion of the town commissioners and bailiff of
said town, and if on the public roads of Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and
Worcester Counties, then under the direction and supervision of the Coun-
ty Commissioners or the road supervisor of any district who may be
authorized 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. 1920 Code, sec. 385.

288. The officer or other person having such prisoners in charge shall
have the power and authority to compel such labor, and shall be respon-
sible 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. 1920 Code, sec. 386.

289. 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-