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sion or recess of the Court, in the Circuit Court having jurisdiction in the
city or county, where the jail in which such convict is confined, is situated,
alleging that the said convict hath become insane or a lunatic, and still is
so at the time of the filing of the petition, and setting forth the misdemeanor
or crime of which such insane person is convict and the date upon which his
term of imprisonment will expire; and the said Court, if the petition be
filed during a session thereof, shall cause a jury of twelve to be forthwith
empanelled, who shall be drawn from the jurors attending the sessions of
the Court, and shall charge said jury to inquire whether such convict hath
become insane or a lunatic and is still so; and any judge of said Court, if
the petition be filed during recess of the Court, shall pass an order on said
petition, as promptly as may be, requiring the sheriff of the city or county
where said convict is confined, forthwith to summon a jury of twelve good
and lawful men to attend before such judge, at the time and place named
in the order, who shall be empanelled and charged by the said judge to
inquire whether such convict hath become insane or a lunatic and still is so;
and if the jury so as aforesaid empanelled and charged by the Court, or
the jury empanelled and charged by any judge thereof in recess of Court,
shall find that such convict hath become insane or a lunatic, and still is so
at the time of the inquisition, the said Court, or the said judge, as the case
may be, shall order such insane or lunatic convict to be removed from the
jail where he is confined and placed in a sanatorium, hospital or other
place where he may receive care and treatment, and there be confined at
the expense of the city or county wherein such jail is situated, until he
shall have recovered his reason and be discharged by due course of law;
provided, however, if such convict recover his reason before the expiration
of the term for which he was committed to the jail from which he was taken,
the Court or the judge that ordered his removal therefrom may order such
convict, upon such recovery of his reason, to be returned to the jail from
which he was removed, and to be confined there until the said term expires,
or may order his discharge, in its or his discretion. The provisions of this
section shall not apply to the Baltimore City Jail.
See sec. 781 and art. 59, sec. 48.

Convict Road Force.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 712. 1916, ch. 211, sec. 1.

799. The majority of any Board of County Commissioners or other
Board in control of the public roads and bridges of any County in the State
of Maryland, shall be and they are hereby authorized to employ upon the
public roads or bridges of such County as a convict road force, any or all
males sentenced to serve terms in the County Jails of their respective
Counties, who are in the judgment of the representatives of said County
Roads Board physically able to perform such work; and it shall be the duty
of the said County Roads Board to provide for the guarding, transportation,
lodging, feeding and medical attention of convicts when so employed.

See sec. 683 and 762.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 713. 1916, ch. 211, sec. 2.

800. The said County Roads Board is hereby authorized to request the
Board of Correction to furnish such additional prisoners as may be profit-
ably employed in the repair or construction of the public roads or bridges of
said County, and it shall be the duty of the Board of Correction to furnish

¹ See art. 89B, sec. 148.