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road fund, except that part payment for clothing and commissary supplies, not ex- 

 ceeding 50 cents per day per convict, shall be paid from any appropriation made for 

 support and maintenance of the State prison. (R. L. 1912, sees. 7598-7602, and 

 Acts 1913, ch._288.) 



Every con\dct not guilty of infraction of the rules and regulations, and who shall 

 faithfully perform the duties assigned him, shall be allowed from his term of sentence 

 a deduction of two months for each of the first two years; four months for each of the 

 second two years; and five months for each remaining year. (R. L. 1912, sec. 7585.) 



Counties. — The board of county commissioners of the several counties may, by 

 proper order, establish a branch county jail in any town in the county and provide 

 that persons charged with or convicted of a misdemeanor in such town or other town 

 or townships mentioned in such order shall be imprisoned in such branch jail instead 

 of the county jail at the county seat. Said board in any county where such branch 

 jail is established may direct the jailor in charge of same to work the prisoners therein 

 confined on the streets of such town or on the public roads of the district or township 

 wherein such jail is located. _ (R. L. 1912, sees. 7514-7616.) 



The board of county comroissioners in each coimty, the mayor and board of alder- 

 men of each incorporated city, and the board of trustees of each incorporated town, 

 may make all necessary arrangements for working any prisoners committed to any 

 jails in such county, city, or town upon the roads, streets, or public works thereof, 

 for at least six hom's per day. The sheriff of the county, the chief of police of a city, 

 and the marshal of a town, respectively, shall have charge of such prisoners. Any 

 prisoner who shall be disobedient or disorderly may be confined in a dark and solitary 

 cell. Prisoners who shall be obedient and faithful shall have five days per month 

 deducted from the term of sentence. (R. L. 1912, sees. 7617-7622.) 



New Jersey. 



State. — The State commissioner of public roads may make application to the prison 

 labor commission for any number of prisoners confined in the State penal institutions 

 to labor on the public roads. Said prison labor commission, in conjunction with the 

 governing body of the institution from which such prisoners are to be detailed, shall 

 determine the number to be assigned, the cost of transportation and maintenance, the 

 compensation for labor, and may enter into an agreement with said commissioner of 

 public roads for payment of said cost of transportation and maintenance, or any por- 

 tion thereof. The governing body of the institution from which such prisoners are 

 to be detailed shall fix all rules of discipline and shall detail necessary guards for the 

 control and safe-keeping of the inmates so detailed . All such work shall be performed 

 under the supervision of the State commissioner of public roads, who may lawfully 

 expend any moneys available for construction, repair, and maintenance of roads to 

 meet the cost, or any portion of such cost, of housing, feeding, and guarding such pris- 

 oners while at work, or for purchase of tools, machinery, supplies, and road-building 

 materials needed. (Acts 1912, ch. 223, as amended; Acts 1913, ch. 290.) 



"State prison" shall be taken to include the present existing prison in the city of 

 Trenton, and any and all State farms, camps, quarries, or grounds where convicts 

 sentenced to the State prison may be kept, housed, or employed. Its management 

 shall be vested in a board of inspectors consisting of six members appointed by the 

 governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, for terms of six years. The said 

 board of inspectors shall have exclusive management of the State prison, and shall have 

 power to make rules and regulations for the government and control thereof. All 

 expenditures shall be from appropriations made therefor, and earnings shall be turned 

 into the State treasury. A keeper of the State prison shall be appointed by the gov- 

 ernor, on advice and consent of the senate, for a five-year term, and he shall be the 

 executive ofiicer thereof and shall appoint all employees, including deputies, guards, 

 and physicians. Nothing herein shall prevent the board of inspectors from entering 

 into an agreement with the State commissioner of pubUc roads, or other department 

 of the State government, for the employment of prisoners on public work. (Acts 1914, 

 ch. 271, as amended; Acts 1915, ch. 390.) 



Appropriations are made annually to meet transportation expenses of prisoners and 

 guards to and from farms and camps. (Acts 1915, chs. 403 and 405.) 



Counties. — The board of chosen freeholders of any county may cause prisoners under 

 sentence, or committed for nonpayment of fine and costs, or in default of bond for 

 nonsupport of family, in the county jail or other county penal institution, except 

 females and those incapable of manual labor, or so many of them as may be required, 

 to work on the pubUc roads of such county, and also upon the grounds of any county 

 institution, and said board may pay the warden of such penal institutions such sum, 

 not exceeding 50 cents per day for each day of eight hours' vork performed by such 



