958 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

locality, it shall be the duty of said Commissioner forthwith to
assign and maintain at such locality such number of said motor-
cycle deputies as in his opinion may be necessary to enforce said
laws, and in all such cases said deputies shall have power to
make summary arrests without warrant and cause the offenders
to be brought to trial as in this sub-title provided. The aggre-
gate expenditures of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles under
the provisions of this Section shall not exceed five thousand
dollars per year, and shall be regarded as an expense of his
department, to be accounted for as in this sub-title provided in
the case of other expenses of his office.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 13th, 1914.

CHAPTER 565.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 2 of
Chapter 597 of the Acts of 1912, entitled "An Act to pro-
vide employment at hard labor for certain classes of prisoners
who may be confined in the County Jail of Garrett County
or other persons of Garrett County under sentence imposed
by the Circuit Court for Garrett County or any of the jus-
tices of the peace of said County having criminal jurisdiction..

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 2 of Chapter 597 of the Acts of 1912, be
and said is hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as
follows:

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That in addition to any sentence
of confinement in the county jail of Garrett County which may
be imposed in cases of conviction of assault, drunkenness, dis-
orderly conduct, disturbing the public peace, vagrancy, petit
larceny, or any misdemeanor where the punishment prescribed
by law shall not exceed three (3) years imprisonment in the
penitentiary or house of correction by the Circuit Court for
Garrett County or any justice of the peace for Garrett County
having criminal jurisdiction, said Court or justice of the peace
may, in the discretion of said Court or said Justice of the
Peace, also in said sentence direct that any prisoner over six-
teen years of age who may be convicted of any of the offenses
enumerated as above shall be subject to perform hard labor