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or incorporated town, as may be designated in such request. The county shall pay 

 all additional expenses of guarding such prisoners while so working and furnish nec- 

 essary tools and materials, but where work is done within the limits of a city or incor- 

 porated town such city or town shall pay such additional expenses. Prisoners shall 

 not be used to build a bridge or like structure which requires skilled labor. Pris- 

 oners doing work outside the walls of the jail who shall render faithful service and 

 obey the rules prescribed by the sheriff shall be allowed such good time, in addition 

 to that otherwise granted, as the sheriff may order, not to exceed 10 days in one cal- 

 endar month. (Acts 1911, ch. 184.) 



The keepers of said prisons (meaning, no doubt, sheriffs and county jailers) may, 

 with the consent of the county commissioners, cause such con\dcts under their charge 

 as are capable of hard labor to be employed on any public avenue, street, highway, 

 or other public works, quarries, or mines, in the county in which such prisoners are 

 confined, or in any of the adjoining counties, upon such terms as may be mutually 

 agreed upon. (R. S. 1908, sec. 2022.) 



The sheriff of each county shall feed prisoners kept in confinement by him with 

 good and sufficient food ; and the county commissioners shall, at expense of the county, 

 supply all things necessary in the performance of said duty. (Acts 1915, ch. III.) 



Connecticut, 



Counties. — The county commissioners of any county may, with consent of the 

 sheriff, cause prisoners serving terms in the jail or workhouse thereof to labor upon 

 any bridge, or public highway or property adjacent thereto. (Acts 1915, ch. 180.) 



Delaware. 



Sussex County. — ^The levy court may employ persons convicted and imprisoned 

 in the county jail, or other places of detention, upon the public roads of the county, 

 or upon the farm of the trustees of the poor, and said court may fix the compensa- 

 tion of such prisoners for all labor so performed, if it shall be deemed wise to pay 

 for such labor. Such compensation may be paid to the dependent members of the 

 families of prisoners. (Acts 1915, ch. 76.) 



Kent and Sussex Counties. — Male persons convicted of crimes punishable by im- 

 prisonment at hard labor may, in the discretion of the court, be sentenced to labor 

 on the public roads for not to exceed 8 hom-s a day and for not more than 3 months 

 in any instance. The levy court may employ necessary guards and others, and may 

 also employ a "superintendent of convict gangs, " who shall have the same power as 

 a deputy sheriff. If necessary, suitable camps shall be provided by the sheriff with 

 proper pro"\dsion for feeding the convicts. The cost of maintaining such camps 

 shall be paid by the levy court. Prisoners who become refractory and refuse to work 

 may be placed in solitary confinement and fed on bread and water. (Acts 1913, 

 chs. 272, 273.) 



New Castle County. — By act of 1893 the levy court was authorized to secure, by 

 purchase or condemnation, a stone quarry to be worked by convicts sentenced to 

 the workhouse at hard labor. Eight hours constitute a day's work at said workhouse. 

 Prisoners refusing to work, or failing to perform their work satisfactorily, may be 

 placed in solitary confinement by the superintendent of the workhouse and be fed 

 on bread and water. Such work and the care and custody of the prisoners shall be 

 under the management and direction of the superintendent of the workhouse. Sup- 

 plies for feeding the prisoners shall be pinchased by contract let after due advertise- 

 ment. The levy court shall provide necessary guards and other employees. Com- 

 missioners of the jail and workhouse may make rules for the government and opera- 

 tion of the workhouse and all persons connected therewith." Said workhouse shall be 

 properly equipped for breaking stone suitable for road-building purposes, to be divided 

 among the several hundreds of the county making application therefor and upon pay- 

 ment of the transportation charges thereon. Provision is made for disposing of the 

 surplus stone produced. (Acts 1893, ch. 670.) 



The levy court may make an agreement with the board of trustees of the New 

 Ca.stle County Workhouse for employing prisoners confined therein in building or 

 repairing any of the public highways of the county. (Acts 1913, ch. 271.) 



Florida. 



SfMte. — The State prison physician shall examine and grade all State convicts 

 into three grades or classes, to wit: Grade or class one, all able-bodied male negro 

 convicts; grade or class two, women and infirm convicts; grade or class three, all 

 negro convicts who have served ton years or longer and all white male convicts and 

 all negro male convicts not included in classes one and two. Convicts included in 



