102                              Laws of Maryland                         [Ch. 82

123D. (a) The Commissioners shall make and promulgate rules
and regulations for:

(b) The proper care, maintenance and operation of the prison
farm and other property and equipment;

(c) The behavior, care and custody of the prisoners committed to

such prison farm;

(d) The working of the prisoners on the prison farm or else-

where; and

(e) If DETERMINE WHETHER compensation is payable to
prisoners, whether such compensation shall be made to prisoners
during their term, withheld until the term of imprisonment shall
have expired, or paid from time to time to their dependent families.

123E. The Commissioners, with the advice of the person in charge
of farming operations at the prison farm, shall determine the crops
to be planted and grown on the prison farm, or land held under lease,
and the acreage for each crop. The produce of the prison farm, or
the proceeds from the sale thereof, shall be used, so far as shall be
deemed expedient, to feed the prisoners committed to the prison farm.

123F. The Commissioners shall prepare annually a budget of
proposed expenditures for the care, operation and maintenance of
the property committed to its care under this sub-title, and for the
feeding of prisoners, taking carefully into account in the preparation
thereof, the probable income from the property. The budget shall be
included in the annual budget for the county and the amount thereof
levied and collected as a part of the county tax.

123G. The provisions of this sub-title shall be applicable in those
counties having a charter form of government under Article 11A of
the Constitution, with the term "County Council" being substi-
tuted in each instance in this sub-title for the term "County Com-
missioners".

Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That any and all public general

or public local laws or any part or parts thereof, inconsistent with
the provisions of this Act, be and they are hereby repealed to the
extent of any such inconsistency.

SEC. 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, THAT THE PRO-
VISIONS HEREIN SHALL NOT APPLY TO FREDERICK,
GARRETT, HARFORD, HOWARD, WASHINGTON AND WOR-
CESTER COUNTIES.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1957.

Approved February 26, 1957.