ART. 19.] ST. MARY'S COUNTY. 989

CHAPTER 332.

AN ACT to provide for the employment on the public streets
and highways of St. Mary's county of a certain class of
prisoners who may be confined in the jail of St. Mary's county
under sentence imposed by the Circuit Court for St. Mary's
county, or any of the justices of the peace for said county
having criminal jurisdiction.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the sheriff of St. Mary's county or his jailor, upon
the demand of the bailiff of any incorporated town in said
county, or of any supervisor of any public road of said county,
or other person duly authorized to superintend the repairing of
the public streets of said town, or the public roads of said
county, is hereby authorized and required to deliver to such
person or official, any male prisoner over sixteen years of age,
or under fifty years of age, who may be confined in said jail
under sentence imposed by the Circuit Court or any justice of
the peace of said county, in any case of drunkenness, disorderly
conduct, disturbing the public peace, vagrancy, petty larceny,
carrying concealed weapons, gaming or playing at crap, in
order that said bailiff or supervisor or other official in charge
of said public streets or highways may employ such prisoner
on the public roads of St. Mary's county, or on the public
streets of any incorporated town of said county.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the employment provided for
in the preceding section shall be performed, if within the cor-
porate 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 St. Mary's county, then
under the direction and supervision of the County Commis-
sioners or the road supervisor of any district who may be au-
thorized by the County Commissioners to work same, and the
labor performed by such prisoners may include every service
necessary for the purpose of draining, grading, shelling, pav-
ing or repairing such public streets or other highways of St.
Mary's county 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 au-
thority to compel such labor, and shall be responsible for the
safety 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 hours' work or
labor for any day he may be so employed; no prisoner shall be