598 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 216

186A. In addition to any sentence of confinement in the
County Jail of Kent County which may be imposed for fail-
ure to pay any fine or fines by the Circuit Court for Kent
County, or any justice of the peace for Kent County having
criminal jurisdiction, said Court or justice shall also in said
sentence direct that any prisoner over sixteen years of age
who may be so sentenced shall be subject to perform labor for
and during the period of his imprisonment on the public
roads of Kent County, or on the public streets of any incorpo-
rated town in said county; provided, that during the employ-
ment of such prisoner on the public streets of any incorpo-
rated 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.

186B. The labor provided for in the preceding section
shall be performed, if within the corporate limits of any in-
corporated town, under the supervision and direction of the
town commissioners and bailiff of such town, and if on the
public roads of Kent County then under the supervision and
direction of the County Commissioners, or the road super-
visor of any district who may be authorized by the County
Commissioners to work the same; and the Sheriff of Kent
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, when-
ever 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 draining, grading,
paving or repairing such public streets or other highways of
Kent County within or without the limits of any incorporated
town therein.

186C. 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 him, shall