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or town. The county judge may appoint a manager and guards for each crew of 

 prisoners, but no crew shall consist of less than three prisoners and not more than one 

 man shall be paid to manage and guard less than 10 persons. The county court may 

 prescribe rules and regulations for governing prisoners and those in charge of them. 

 Any prisoner who may escape shall be fined from $20 to $100, or imprisoned for 10 to 

 15 days, either or both. All prisoners placed at hard labor shall be permitted to 

 satisfy their fines and costs at the rate of |1 per day. (Acts 1914, ch. 89.) 



Louisiana. 



State. — ^Whenever in the opinion of the State highway engineer, convicts can be 

 profitably worked upon the public roads, he shall apply to the board of control of the 

 State penitentiary who shall furnish such convicts in case they are available. The 

 labor performed by the convicts shall be furnished free of cbarge, provided that the 

 cost of maintenance and operation shall be borne by the parish, municipality, or 

 road district having the work performed and paid out of the fund available for said 

 work. The board of control of the State penitentiary shall retain control and super- 

 vision over said convicts in the same manner and to the same extent as if they were 

 upon State farms or in the penitentiaiy walls. (Act No. 49, Sec. 16.) 



Parishes.— In all convictions of crime punishable by imprisonment at hard labor, 

 but not necessarily so, the judge may sentence the person so convicted to work on 

 the public works, roads, or streets of the parish or city in which the crime was com- 

 mitted; preluded, that when a fine is imposed as part of the penalty in such cases, 

 the judge may, for nonpayment of such fine and costs, enforce paj^ment thereof by 

 sentence of additional labor at the rate of $1 per day. PoHce juries may prescribe 

 rules and regulations for the disciphne and working of such con^dcts, but no convict 

 shall be required to wear a ball and chain or other symbol of degredation, nor shall 

 they be required to work more than 10 hours per day. (Acts 1878, No. 38.) 



Able-bodied males, over 18 and under 50 years of age, sentenced to imprisonment 

 in the parish jail for crime or for nonpayment of a fine, shall be worked upon the 

 pubhc roads or other pubUc works, or shall be leased to some one person for the pur- 

 pose of working them within the parish. Convicts shall not be so held and worked 

 for fines and costs for more than two years, and for good conduct and efficient service 

 they shall be entitled to a deduction of one-sixth from their term of imprisonment. 

 The poUce juiy may prescribe rules and regulations for the government and control 

 of such prisoners. Any con^ict who shall escape, or attempt to escape, shall have 

 his sentence increased by 10 per cent of the unexpired term and sufficient additional 

 time to cover the costs incident thereto. The wages of convicts shall vary from |2 to 

 $16 per month while so worked. The police jury may employ necessary gaurds. 

 (Acts 1908, No. 204.) 



Maine. 



Counties. — In counties not having established county workhouses, the county 

 commissioners, at county expense, shall provide some suitable place, materials, and 

 implements for breaking stone suitable for road-building purposes, and shall cause 

 certain prisoners to be worked thereat. Said county commissioners may prescribe 

 needful rules and regulations for the government and control of such prisoners and 

 the prosecution of such work. (E. S. 1903, ch. 80.) 



Upon written application of the county commissioners, or the municipal officers 

 of any town, the board of prison and jail inspectors may require that any male pris- 

 oner under sentence in jail shall be worked on the pubhc ways or in preparing road 

 materials, under such regulations as said board of inspectors may prescribe. (Acts 

 of 1905, ch. 126.) 



Maryland. 



State. — The State roads commission may establish a stone-crusMng plant or plants, 

 and may rent, purchase, or condemn stone quarries, or other materials, to produce 

 road materials available most economically for water or other transportation, and do 

 all things necessary and proper in connection with purchasing, producing, accumu- 

 lating, and distributing such materials. For the purpose of building, constinicting, 

 and maintaining any State roads and bridges, or for working in any stone quarry 

 operated by the State roads commission, said commission may make requisition on 

 the director of the Maryland house of coiTection for as many inmates thereof as may 

 be necessary for said purposes, and said directors shall furnish such inmates with 

 such guards and keepers as can be spared from duty at said house of correction. Ad- 

 ditional guards and keepers shall be furnished by said commission, if necessary. 

 Said commission, in conjunction with aforesaid board of directors, shall provide for 

 the maintenance and safe-keeping of said inmates while so employed. (Ann. Code 

 of 1911, act 91, sees. 51-61.) 



