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shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof
may be fined not more than One hundred dollars ($100. 00),
or imprisoned in jail for not more than one hundred days, or
both, in the discretion of the Court,

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the first day of June, 1916.

Approved April 11th, 1916.

CHAPTER 211.

AN ACT to provide for the working of male convicts of the
State Penitentiary, jails and other penal institutions in the
State of Maryland, on the public roads and highways within
any county of the State, and to provide for the guarding,
transportation, lodging, feeding, medical attention, clothing
and for the use of money for the expense incurred by same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the majority of any Board of County Com-
missioners or other Board in control of the public roads and
bridges of any County in the State of Maryland, shall be and
they are hereby authorized to employ upon the public roads
or bridges of such County as a convict road force, any or all
males sentenced to serve terms in the County Jails of their
respective Counties, who are in the judgment of the repre-
sentatives of said County Roads Board physically able to per-
form such work; and it shall be the duty of the said County
Roads Board to provide for the guarding, transportation, lodg-
ing, feeding and medical attention of convicts when so em-
ployed.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said County Roads
Board is hereby authorized to request the State Board of Prison
Control to furnish such additional prisoners as may be profit-
ably employed in the repair or construction of the public roads
or bridges of said County, and it shall be the duty of the State
Board of Prison Control to furnish such prisoners as they may
have available for such work, and to provide for the guarding,
transportation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical atten-
tion for all state convicts employed on road or bridge work,
provided, that the County Roads Board shall refund to the
State Board of Prison Control all expenses of guarding, trans-