1304                             Laws of Maryland                       [Ch. 788

Trial Magistrate of Talbot County, at the suit of said Board of
County Commissioners of said County.

421. It shall not be lawful for any person to place and keep any
portable [steam] saw mill within a distance of seventy five yards of
any of the public roads of Talbot County; any person violating any
of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of not
less than twenty five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, [one half
of which, when collected, shall go to [the informer, and the other
half to] the county commissioners, for the benefit of the school
fund of said county. Each day such violation continues shall con-

stitute a separate offense.

429. The County Commissioners of Talbot County are hereby
authorized and empowered to direct the sheriff of said county either
in person or by his deputies [or the bailiff of Easton] to employ all
male persons who may be physically able, sentenced to confinement in
said jail either by the circuit court for said county or by any justice
of the peace of the State of Maryland in and for Talbot County and
all persons committed to said jail and confined therein in default of
payment of any fine imposed, during the time of such confinement,
to work upon the public roads of said county or on the streets of
[Easton] any town therein, or such other manual labor and work
as they may be required to by the said County Commissioners of
Talbot County; and the said County Commissioners are hereby em-
powered to make such by-laws, rules and regulations as they may
think necessary and proper for the clothing, regulation, management,
control and conduct of such prisoners while engaged at the work or
labor assigned them by said County Commissioners and any such
persons who shall refuse to perform the work assigned him or be
guilty of any act of a subordination or misconduct shall be punished
by the sheriff of said county or his duly appointed deputy or special
deputies or the [bailiff of Easton,] as the rules and regulations pre-
scribed by said County Commissioners of Talbot County shall require.

430. Such labor so to be performed by the said incarcerated male
persons shall be done under the direction of said sheriff of Talbot
County, or his duly appointed deputy or special deputies., when work-

ing on the county roads, or [the bailiff of Easton when working on]

the streets of [same,] any town in said County acting under authority
duly conferred by the said County Commissioners of Talbot County,
and said sheriff of Talbot County shall appoint as his special deputies
for the purpose such duly qualified supervisors of the roads of said
county as in his judgment would probably perform their work as
such deputies. No prisoner shall be assigned to work as provided by
this sub-heading within the corporate limits of any municipal cor-
poration unless request is made in writing by the governing authority
of said municipal corporation to the County Commissioners.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1959.

Approved April 28, 1959.