FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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CHAPTER 437.

AN ACT to authorize and empower the County Commis-

sioners of Queen Anne's County to employ any and all

male convicts committed to the county jail of said county

by the judgment of the Circuit Court for said county, or

any justice of the peace thereof, in working the county

public roads of said county, or the public streets of Cen-

treville in said county, and to pass all necessary and

needful rules and regulations in reference thereto.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That whenever any person shall have been con-

To employ
convicts

victed of any crime or misdemeanor, or any offence against,

in working

or violation of any law, State, county, or municipal and as

public
roads

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 empowered to employ or

cause to be employed any such convict or person so commit-

ted 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 escape of such convicts

or persons so committed to jail as aforesaid, while so em-

ployed, and to carry this law into full and efficient operation

and effect.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect

Effective.

from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.

CHAPTER 438.

AN ACT to regulate the sale of spirituous or fermented

liquors within three miles in every direction of the City

of Cumberland, Maryland.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Maryland, That fourteen new sections be, and the same are

New

hereby added to article one of the Code of Public Local

section.

Laws, title "Allegany County," sub-title "Intoxicating

Liquors," said sections to be properly located in said article