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injury or illness as a result of, or arising from their respec-
tive employment; and shall make such rules as may be nec-
essary to carry out the provisions of this section.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1st, 194].

Approved May 29, 1941.

CHAPTER 867.
(Senate Bill 374)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments, Section
148 of Article 89B of the Code of Public General Laws
of Maryland, entitled "State Roads", sub title "Convict
Labor", relating to the employment of convict labor in
the construction, reconstruction and maintenance of
State and County roads.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That Section 148 of Article 89B of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, entitled "State Roads",
sub-title "Convict Labor", be and the same is hereby re-
pealed and re-enacted with amendments to read as fol-
lows:

148. (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 1942 and 1943, from the Reconstruction and Mainten-
ance 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 control and direction
of the Board of Correction; and the said Board of Cor-
rection 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 maximum security.

The employment of all prisoners on road work as herein
directed shall be subject to all the conditions and require-
ments now in force for such work, as prescribed in Article
27, Sections 799 to 813, inclusive, of the Code of Public
General Laws, provided that the money to be expended

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