HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1143

of Maryland (1935 Supplement), as said section was enacted
by Chapter 505 of the Acts of 1937, be and it is hereby repealed
and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

105. Convict Labor. The State Roads Commission is
authorized and directed to expend a sum of Two Hundred
Thousand Dollars ($200, 000. 00) a year for the fiscal years of
1940 and 1941, from the Reconstruction and Maintenance Fund
to be used for the purpose of employing, on reconstruction and
maintenance of State and county roads, prisoners in the penal
institutions of the State which institutions are under the con-
trol and direction of the Board of Welfare; and the said Board
of Welfare is directed to furnish the said Commission, for the
above purposes, such prisoners as in its judgment may be
safely utilized for such work, the Board to be the sole judge of
whether such prisoners can be used for road work with maxi-
mum security.

The employment of all prisoners on road work as herein
directed shall be subject to all the conditions and requirements
now in force for such work, as prescribed in Article 27, Sec-
tions 712 to 726, inclusive, of the Code of Public General Laws
(1924 Edition )₇ provided that the money to be expended here-
under shall provide for maintenance, safekeeping, transporta-
tion, wages and all other expenses of utilizing prison labor on
the roads, it being understood this sum shall cover the total
cost of the employment of said prisoners.

It is declared to be the policy of the State that, because of
the enforced idleness of prisoners in the several penal insti-
tutions of the State, it is necessary and desirable that useful
work on State projects be found for said prisoners, and that all
such prisoners who may be safely used for this work shall be
put upon maintenance and reconstruction of the State roads.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1st, 1939.

Approved May 27, 1939.

CHAPTER 567.
(House Bill 516)

AN ACT making an emergency appropriation for the payment
of extraordinary expenses of the General Assembly of Mary-
land for the session of 1939.

(Vetoed. )