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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 624.

AN ACT to provide employment at hard labor for certain

classes of prisoners in the jail ,of Carroll County, and to

repeal chapter 39 of the Public Local Laws of Carroll

County, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent

herewith, so far as they relate to Carroll County.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

Sentence to

Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the Circuit

hard labor

Court for Carroll County and any justice of the peace having

jurisdiction in the matter of assaults, drunkenness, disorderly

conduct and vagrancy, to sentence any person or persons

convicted of any of the above offenses to hard labor in

addition to the other penalties prescribed by law ; provided,

that such sentence at hard labor for drunkenness, disorderly

conduct and vagrancy shall not exceed sixty days.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the hard labor provided

Hard labor

for in the preceding section shall be performed under the

to be per-
formed on

direction and supervision of the mayor and common council

streets, &c

of the city of Westminster, and all expense attending such

direction and supervision shall be borne by the city of

Westminster. The labor may be performed upon any of

the streets and alleys of the city of Westminster, and upon

the county roads leading into said city, and may include

every service necessary to grading, macadamizing and

repaving such streets and alleys, and said public roads.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the

County

County Commissioners of Carroll County, after the passage

commis-
sioners to

of this act, upon the request of the mayor and common

deliver
stone

council of the city of Westminster, to deliver at such places

and in such quantities as the said mayor and common council

shall designate, stone of a character suitable to be broken

with stone hammers and fit for road making and improve-

ments, such stone to be used only on the public roads of the

county ; and the said county commissioners shall also fur-

nish upon an order of the mayor and common council of the

city of Westminster, sufficient stone hammers to break the

stone necessary for the improvqment of the public roads

designated in section two of this act.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That eight hours shall consti-

tute a day's work at hard labor, and such hard labor shall

Eight
hours a

be performed between the hours of 8 o'clock a. m. and 5

day's
work

o'clock p. m. No prisoner sentenced under this act shall be

exempt from hard labor except through physical inability,

properly certified to by the physican to the jail. Should