FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

regulation of all matters connected with the general manage-
ment of said jail, and all persons sentenced to confinement in
said jail, either by the Circuit Court for said county, or
by any justice of the peace of the State of Maryland, in
and for said county, where the sentence is to hard labor

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besides imprisonment; and all persons committed to said
jail and confined therein in default of payment of any
fine imposed, shall be subject, during the time of such
confinement, to work upon the public roads of said county, or
on the streets of the city of Salisbury, or such other manual
labor and work as they may be required to do by the said jail
supervisors; and the said jail supervisors are hereby empowered
to make such by-laws, rules and regulations as they may think
necessary and proper for the clothing, regulation, management,
control and conduct of such prisoners while engaged at the
work or labor assigned them by said jail supervisors, or by the
Mayor and Council of Salisbury, when hired to and in the
employ of the Mayor and Council; and any such person who
shall refuse to perform the work assigned him, or be guilty of
any act of insubordination or misconduct, such person shall be
punished by the sheriff of said county, or his duly appointed

Prisoners to
work upon
roads.

deputy or special deputy, as the rules and regulations pre-
scribed by said jail supervisors shall provide; and the said jail
supervisors are hereby authorized and empowered, in their dis-
cretion, to hire out for some useful employment all persons
sentenced to said jail, or committed and confined therein ir
default of payment of fines imposed upon them as hereinbefore
provided, upon such terms as may be agreed upon; and the
sheriff of said county, or liis deputies or special deputies, or
bailiff of Salisbury, when hired, shall guard said persons while
engaged at work under this act, and while going to and return
ing from such work, and shall receive such compensation
therefor as may be allowed by said jail supervisors; and said
jail supervisors may allow a deduction of five days from each
month of the period of every person committed or sentenced
as aforesaid, if he shall labor with diligence and fidelity, and
shall not be guilty of a violation of the discipline or any of
the rules thereof.

Prisoners
may be
hired out.

SEC. 2. The Circuit Court for Wicomico county or any
justice of the peace of the said county, where the sentence if
to the county jail, may in addition sentence said prisoner to
hard labor, and where so sentenced, the said prisoner, whether
so sentenced or not, shall be subject to the provisions of the
preceding section.

Court may
impose hard
labor.