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porting and maintaining the state convicts when said convicts
have been furnished for road work at the request of said County
Roads Board; and when the State's convicts are employed in
the same convict road force as the convicts of the County re-
questing the State Board of Prison Control to furnish State
convicts, then the State Board of Prison Control shall furnish
at the expense of the County Roads Board all necessary guards
and the County Roads Board shall supply the lodging, feed-
ing and medical attention as provided in Section One.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That any convict escaping
or attempting to escape shall on conviction before a Justice of
the Peace or before the Circuit Court of the County in which
the offense was committed or before the Criminal Court of
Baltimore City, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and be
sentenced to imprisonment in the institution to which he had
been previously sentenced for a term not less than three months
nor for more than one-half of the entire term for which he
had been sentenced prior to his escape or effort to escape in the
discretion of the Court.

SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That the County Roads.
Board using State convicts as provided in Section Two of this
Act are hereby authorized and directed to pay to the Board of
Prison Control ten (10) cents per day for each and every
day that each and every State convict works upon the public
roads or bridges as provided herein, and the State Board of
Prison Control is hereby directed to hold such payments to
the credit of each convict and pay the same over to him on his
release or in the discretion of the State Board of Prison Con-
trol, one-half of the amount to the credit of each convict may
be paid to him, from time to time, or the entire amount may
be paid to the person to whom the convict may direct pay-
ment to be made, or said payment may be made to the wife
or children or other person or persons, dependent upon said
convict if found to be in need by the said Board of Prison
Control.

SEC 5. And be it further enacted, That the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners or other County Roads Board of any County
is hereby authorized and empowered to use such moneys as
may be appropriated for the construction of County or State
aid roads under its jurisdiction, and to apply so much thereof
as may be necessary to the maintenance of the convict road
force and to meet the expense of materials and equipment for
the use of same.