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Expenses of the Commission Allocated or Prorated to the
Project; Accounting; Supervision; Legal Expense; Travel-
ing, Transportation and Subsistence Expenses.

(f) (Miscellaneous) : Items of expense not properly cov-
ered under the headings (a) to (e), inclusive.

147P. Should any section, or part of a section, of this sub-
title be held to be invalid for any reason, such holding shall
not be construed as affecting the validity of any remaining
section, or part of a section, of this sub-title, it being the
Legislative intent that the remainder of this sub-title shall
stand, notwithstanding the invalidity of such section or part
of a section.

SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That Section 148 of
Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1943 Sup-
plement), title "State Roads", sub-title "Convict Labor", as
amended by Chapter 408 of the Acts of 1945, be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as
follows:

148. (Convict Labor.) In connection with the reconstruc-
tion or maintenance of roads, the State Roads Commission
is authorized to employ prisoners in the penal institutions of
the State which institutions are under the control and
direction of the Board of Correction; and the said Board
of Correction is directed to furnish the said Commission, for
the above purposes, such prisoners as in its judgment may
be safely utilized for such work, the Board to be the sole
judge of whether such prisoners can be used for road work
with maximum security.

The employment of all prisoners on road work as herein
directed shall be subject to all the conditions and require-
ments now in force for such work, as prescribed in Article
27, Sections 799 to 813, inclusive, of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws, provided that the money to be expended here-
under shall provide for maintenance, safekeeping, transporta-
tion, and all other expenses of utilizing prison labor on the
roads or for carrying out the purposes of this sub-title,
including suck wages as shall be prescribed from time to
time by the Board of Public Works.

Provided, however, that the Board of Correction shall make
arrangements for the emplyoment of any prisoners at any
camp or camps in Queen Anne's County and in any other
county or counties in which similar camps are now or may
hereafter be established, in the harvesting and gathering of
any agricultural crops in any county of this State between