FRANK BROWN, ESQUIEE, GOVERNOR.

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any prisoner or prisoners prove refractory and stubborn.

and refuse to work or to perform the work in a proper man-

ner, the sheriff shall place such prisoner or prisoners in

close confinement, solitary if possible, within the jail, there

to be kept on bread and water until he or they submit to

perform his or their work properly, and obey orders from

the authority under whose supervision he or they must

work. The time of refusal to work shall not be deducted

from the sentence of any person or persons who shall so

refuse.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That all beggars and vaga-

bonds who roam about from place to place, without any

lawful business or occupation, sleeping in outhouses, barns,

Beggars
and vaga-

sheds, or in the open air, and not giving a good account of

bonds.

themselves, shall be deemed vagrants and liable to the

penalties of this act.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the sheriff of Carroll

County shall report to the mayor and common council of

Westminster, or to the officer of the city of Westminster

Sheriff to
make

under whose supervision the hard labor provided tor in this

report.

act is to be performed, immediately upon their reception

into jail, the name of all prisoners sentenced to hard labor

and the length of sentence of each. The said sheriff of

Carroll County shall deliver to the officer of Westminster

under whose supervision the hard labor contemplated by

this act is to be done, upon his request, all prisoners in his

custody under sentence at hard labor, and receive them

upon their return by said officer of Westminster, and for

this delivery and reception the sheriff shall be entitled to a

fee of twenty-five cents for each delivery and twenty-five cents

for each reception of said prisoners each and every day,

said fees to be paid by the County Commissioners of Carroll

County ; and the sheriff shall retain custody and control of

said prisoners while at labor, and shall see that the work to

be done by them is performed according to the require-

ments of the said mayor and common council, or their

authorized officer ; and for such custody and control of said

prisoners and supervision of the work done by them, the

sheriff shall be allowed the sum of two dollars and fifty

cents per day for the first five of said prisoners or any

smaller number thereof, and the sum of twenty-five cents

per day for each prisoner additional to the first five so put

at labor, during the continuance of said labor.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the officer of the city of

City

Westminster, under whose direction and supervision the

officers to
make

hard labor contemplated by this act is to be performed,

monthly
reports.

shall make monthly report to the County Commissioners of