386 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 409

other county or counties in which similar camps are now
or may hereafter be established, in the harvesting and
gathering of any agricultural crops in any county of this
State between August 1st and December 31st each year,
except, however, any such prisons being utilized or needed
by the State Roads Commission for emergency road
maintenance work in any, county of this State.
Persons who employ such prisoners from the Board
of Correction shall be required to pay the reasonable value
of such labor at the estimated prevailing wage scale for
such work in the community where the prisoners are so
employed and to give such security therefor as the Board
may, in its discretion, determine and require. Persons
employing such prison labor shall be authorized to sell the
produce harvested by such labor notwithstanding the re-
strictions imposed by Section 762 of Article 27 of the
Annotated Code. Prisoners so employed in the harvesting
of crops shall be under the control and supervision of the
Board of Correction to the same extent as when employed
on the construction and maintenance of roads.

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

All prisoners placed at work on farms under the pro-
visions of this section shall remain under the control and
custody of the officers of the institution from which they
are assigned and shall remain subject to all of the laws,
including the law as to escaping from prison, rules and
regulations applicable to prisoners confined in said insti-
tution.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1945.

Approved March 29, 1945.

CHAPTER 409.

(Senate Bill 382)

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 11 of the Code of

Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Banks and

Trust Companies, " sub-title "Credit "Unions, " to be

known as Section 152, providing for loans to members

. on first mortgage lien security, 'under certain limitations.