888 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 301

such employment, and provided further, that this Act shall
not apply to female prisoners.

168B. The labor provided for in the preceding section
shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the
County Commissioners, or any road supervisor or other official
who may be authorized by the County Commissioners to work
the same; and the Sheriff of Montgomery County, upon the
demand of any 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 draining, grading, paving or repairing such public
streets or other highways of Montgomery County.

168C. 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 incur the penalty of
two days' additional imprisonment for every day he may so
refuse, and this provision shall be included in the sentence of
the Court of justice by whom the same may be rendered; but
no prisoner shall be compelled to perform such labor whose
health is not in a condition to allow the same, and the certificate
of the physician to the jail or other physician in said county
shall be sufficient to excuse such labor.

168D. If any officer or other person having such prisoner
in charge for the performance for such work or labor, connive
at or by his wilful neglect permit the escape of any such prisoner
he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon indictment and
conviction of such offense in the Circuit Court for Montgomery
County, be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100. 00)
nor more than one thousand dollars ($1, 000. 00), or be con-
fined in the county jail for not less than thirty (30) days nor
more than six (6) months, and be subject to the same penalty
of labor, or both, in the discretion of the Court,