J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                            113

CHAPTER 107
(Senate Bill 91)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 253, 254
and 256 of Article 23 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland
(1930 Edition), title "Wicomico County", sub-title "Roads", sub-
heading "Prison Labor", removing from the Local Laws of Wi-
comico County duplicating provisions concerning prison labor and
the sheriffs of certain other counties; amending the prison labor
law of Wicomico County in order to make possible the use of prison
labor for working on public parks, public buildings and land
surrounding such buildings in Wicomico County and relating
generally to the use of prison labor in Wicomico County.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 253, 254 and 256 of Article 23 of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland (1930 Edition), title "Wicomico County",
sub-title "Roads", sub-heading "Prison Labor", be and they are
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

253.    The sheriff of [Somerset, Talbot,] Wicomico [and Worcester
counties] County, or his jailor, upon the demand of the bailiff or chief
executive officer of any incorporated town in said counties, or of any
supervisor of any public road of said [counties] county or other
person duly authorized to superintend the repairing of the public
streets of said town, or the public roads of said [counties,] county or
the public property of an incorporated town is hereby authorized
and required to deliver to such person or official, any male prisoner
over sixteen years of age, who may be confined in said jail, under
sentence imposed by the Circuit Court[s] or any Justice of the Peace
of said [counties] County in any case of assault, drunkenness, dis-
orderly conduct, disturbing the public peace, vagrancy, petty larceny,
carrying concealed weapons, gaming or playing at crap, in order that
said bailiff or supervisor or other official in charge of said public
streets or highways or property may employ such prisoner at hard
labor on the public roads of [Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and Wor-
cester counties] Wicomico County, or on the public streets of any
incorporated town of said counties [.] , or on any publicly owned
parks, buildings or land surrounding such buildings,

254.    The hard labor provided for in the preceding section shall
be performed, if within the corporate limits of any incorporated town,
under the supervision and discretion of the town commissioners and
bailiff of such town, and if on the public roads of [Somerset, Talbot,
Wicomico and Worcester counties] Wicomico County then under the
direction and supervision of the County Commissioners or the road
supervisor of any district who may be authorized by the County
Commissioners to work same, and the labor performed by such
prisoners may include every service necessary for the purpose of
draining, grading, shelling, paving or repairing such public streets
or other highways of [Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico and Worcester
counties] Wicomico County within or without the limits of any in-

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.