212 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 105

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 322 and 725 of Article 11 of the Code of
Public Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Fred-
erick County", sub-titles "Frederick City", and "Sheriff", be and
they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to
read as follows:

322. In Frederick City, the justice of the peace who tried
and committed a vagrant or other offender of a municipal law
or ordinance is hereby authorized and directed, whenever prac-
ticable, to make an assignment of such person to employment
on the county roads or on the streets of the city, and the Sheriff
or other officer into whose custody said person has been com-
mitted is hereby ordered to comply with any such order for
assignment, and the person ordered to work by the Justice of
the Peace is to be guarded, if he works upon the streets of the
city, by the Superintendent of Streets or by any other person
deputized by the Sheriff, and if he works upon the roads of the
county, then he shall be guarded by the Road Supervisor of the
district in which the said person works, and the Sheriff is
hereby authorized to deputize for this purpose any one of the
said officials or other persons to take charge of the said per-
sons while so employed. The sentence of every such person
shall be reduced by one day for every five working days spent
in such work.

725. The Sheriff of Frederick County is hereby authorized
and directed to require all persons of sufficient ability who
shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail of said
county by any court or justice of the peace of said county as a
punishment for any crime or misdemeanor, committed therein,
to work upon the public roads and highways of said county,
or to do some work in connection with the improvement
thereof, as part of the prison discipline and management, [pro-
vided that nothing herein shall apply to persons convicted and
sentenced for crimes or misdemeanors committed prior to the
first day of June in the year 1912. ] The sentence of every such
person shall be reduced by one day for every five working days
spent in such work.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1951.

Approved March 14, 1951.