EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the hard labor provided
for in the preceding section shall be performed, if within

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the corporate limits of any incorporated town, under the
supervision and discretion of the town commissioners and
bailiff of such town, and if on the public roads of Somerset,
Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester counties then under the
direction, and supervision of the County Commissioners or
the roads supervisor of any district who may be authorized
by the County Commissioners to work same, and the labor
performed by such prisoners may include every service nec-
essary, for the purpose of draining, grading, shelling, paving
or repairing such public streets or other highways of Somer-
set, Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester counties within or
without the limits of any incorporated town therein.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the officer or other person
having such prisoners in charge shall have the power and

How labor
shall be
performed.

authority to compel such labor, and shall be responsible for
the safe keep and return to prison of such convicts to the
custody of the sheriff at the end of each day's labor, which
day's labor shall be within the discretion of the officer or
other person so supervising at the time, but shall not exceed
ten hoars' work or labor for any day he may be so employed ;
no prisoner shall be employed to perform such labor whose
health is not in a condition to allow the same, and the cer-
tificate of the physician to the jail shall be sufficient to
excess such labor.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any officer or

Power and
authority
officer, etc.

other person having such prisoner in charge for the perform-
ance of such work or labor, connive at or by his wilful
neglect, permit the escape of any such prisoner, he shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and convic-
tion of such offence in the Circuit Courts for Somerset,
Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester counties be fined not less
than twenty dollars or more than fifty, or be confined in the
county jail.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved February 27, 1906.

Guilty of mis-
demeanor.