ALBERT C. RITCHIE,, GOVERNOR. 1431

254-A. In addition to any sentence of confinement in the
County Jail of Garrett County which may be imposed for
failure to pay any fine or fines by the Circuit Court for
Garrett County, or any justice of the peace for Garrett
County having criminal jurisdiction, said Court or justice
shall also in said sentence direct that any prisoner over six-
teen years of age who may be so sentenced shall be subject
to perform labor for and during the period of his imprison-
ment on the public roads of Garrett county, or on the public
streets of any incorporated town in said county; provided,
that during the employment of such prisoner on the public
streets of any incorporated town, the town authorities of
such town so employing such prisoner shall be charged with
the expense which may attend such employment, and provided
further, that this Act shall not apply to female prisoners.

254-B. The labor provided for in the preceding section
shall be performed, if within the corporate limits of any
incorporated town, under the supervision and direction of
the town commissioners and bailiff of such town, and if on
the public roads of Garrett county then under the supervision
and direction of the County Commissioners, or the road
supervisor of any district who may be authorized by the
County Commissioners to work the same; and the Sheriff of
Garrett County, upon the demand of any bailiff, supervisor
or other persons duly authorized to make such demand, is
hereby authorized and required to deliver such prisoner to
the party so making the demand and entitled to receive the
same, whenever and at such times as he may be so legally
required; and the labor to be performed by such prisoner
may include every service necessary for the purpose of drain-
ing, grading, paving or repairing such public streets or other
highways of Garrett county within or without the limits of
any incorporated town therein.

254-C. The officer or other, person having such prisoner
in charge shall have power and authority to compel such
labor, and shall be responsible for the safe keep and return
to prison of such prisoner 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; and any prisoner so
sentenced who shall refuse to perform the labor required of