198 BULLETIN 414, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



grades one and thi'ee may be worked on the public roads of counties on application 

 therefor by the county boards of commissioners to the board of commissioners of 

 State institutions. The counties shall, at their expense, guard, feed, clothe, main- 

 tain, and give medical attention to all convicts so employed. Convicts so employed 

 shall at all times be under the supervision of the board of commissioners of State 

 institutions, and shall compl,y with all rules and regulations prescribed by said board 

 and the commissioner of agriculture. All grade one convicts so used shall be paid 

 for at the rate of $10 per month, and grade three prisoners at the rate of $1 per month. 

 Convicts shall not be worked more than 10 hours a day. (Acts 1916, ch. 6915.) 



The commissioner of agriculture shall keep a record of the conduct of each prisoner, 

 and, when no charge of misconduct has been sustained against him, the following 

 deductions from his sentence shall be made by the board of commissioners of State 

 institutions: Two days per month off f'or first year of sentence; 3 days for second year; 

 4 days for third year; 5 days for fourth year; 6 days for fifth year; 7 days for sixth year; 

 8 days for seventh year; 9 days for eighth year; 10 days for ninth year; and 15 days per 

 month off for the tenth year and all succeeding years. Accrued commutation shall 

 be forfeited for mutinous conduct or for escape or attempted escape. (Acts 1915, 

 ch. 6917.) 



Counties. — Boards of county commissioners may employ all persons in the jaila 

 of their respective counties, under sentence for crime, at labor upon the streets of 

 incorporated cities and towns, or upon roads, bridges, and public works of the county; 

 or the said boards may, in their discretion, lease such convicts to be kept and worked 

 either within the county or in any other county in the State. No female, or physi- 

 cally disabled convict, shall be so worked. Said convicts shall be kept and worked 

 under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the commissioner of agri- 

 cultm-e, with the approval of the board of commissioners of State institutions. The 

 supervisors of State convicts shall inspect and 8uper\'lse all county convict camps. 

 (Acts 1909, ch. 5963; Acts 1913, ch. 6537.) 



Persons confined in the county jail under sentence of a court may be worked on 

 the roads of the county. If the number of convicts in any county at any time be less 

 than five, the county commissioners may arrange with the county commissioners of 

 any other county for an exchange of prisoners. The cost of guarding and maintaining 

 such prisoners shall be paid by the county in which they are worked. Ten hours 

 shall constitute a day's labor for all such convicts. Every such convict shall be en- 

 titled to receive, together with subsistence, a credit at the rate of 30 cents per diem 

 on account of fines and costs. (G. S. 1906, sees. 4110, 4111, 4113.) 



The sheriff shall be allowed the following fees for feeding prisoners: For feeding 10 

 prisoners, or Ifess, 50 cents per day each; and over 10 prisoners, 40 cents per day each. 

 (Acts 1915, ch. 6898.) 



Georgia. 



State. — ^Every crime declared to be a misdemeanor is punishable in the discretion 

 of the judge by a fine of not to exceed $1,000; imprisonment not to exceed six months; 

 work in the chain gang on the public roads or on such other public works as the 

 county or State authorities may employ the chain gang not to exceed 12 months. 

 All male felony convicts, except such as are now required by law to be kept at the 

 State farm, may be employed by the authorities of the several counties and munici- 

 palities upon the public roads, bridges, or other public works thereof. On or before 

 the 10th day of February annually, the prison commission shall communicate with 

 the county authorities of the State and ascertain those counties desiring to use contact 

 labor upon their public roads, and said county authorities shall ad\dse the prison 

 commission, in writing, whether they desire so to use such labor and the number 

 desired. The convicts shall be apportioned among the counties according to popula- 

 tion. Convicts may be awarded to counties other than the one in which the convic- 

 tion was had. One county may, upon the approval of the prison commission, deliver 

 its quota of convicts to another county, to be used on the roads and bridges thereof, 

 the counties so receiving such convicts to have the right to compensate the county 

 from which the convicts came, with work upon its roads, or by the exchange of an 

 equal number of con\'icts. The prison commission may, when in funds, piuchase 

 road machinery, appliances, and teams, and e.quip and organize road-working forces, 

 the same to be used for the construction and repair of roads and bridges in counties 

 not using their convicts under the preceding provisions, when requested by the 

 authorities thereof so to do, the work to be done as nearly as practicable in proportion 

 to the convicts which would have been assigned to such county in case it had worked 

 its convicts, but as many convicts in addition to said proportion may be worked as 

 any county is willing to pay the expense of, and as the commission may have at its 

 disposal. The county in which convicts are worked shall pay the expenses thereof ,.. 



