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state, shall furnish the labor requested and proceed to improve the highway under 

 the direction of the State geologic survey. No such county, township, or district 

 may use at any time more than 100 convicts if an application from another county is 

 pending and no convicts are available for it. Such counties, townships, or road dis- 

 tricts shall pay to the State not less than $1 per day for each convict, shall furnish 

 quarters to be approved by the board of prison directors, and shall furnish pure drink- 

 ing water, firewood for camp use, and overseers to direct the work. All other expenses 

 of every kind shall be borne by the board of prison directors. The State farm or 

 penitentiary authorities or council of state shall at all times reserve a sufficient number 

 of convicts to cultivate the State farm. (Acts 1913, ex. sess., ch. 37.) 



Counties. — The board of commissioners of the several counties, or other- proper 

 county authorities, and the mayor and intendant of the several cities and towns of 

 the State, may provide, under such rules and regulations as they may deem best, for 

 the employment on the public streets, highways, or works, or other labor for corpora- 

 tions, of all persons confined in the jails in their respective counties, cities, and towns, 

 upon conviction of any crime or misdemeanor, or for failure to enter into bond for 

 keeping the peace, or for failure to pay all the costs which they are adjudged to pay. 

 Said board of county commissioners may levy a special tax annually, as other taxes 

 are le\'ied, for the piirpose of paying the expenses of said convicts, the building 

 of stockades, etc., which expenses shall be paid by the counties taking advantage 

 of this chapter. (Pell's Rev. of 1908, sec. 1318 and ch. 24.) 



It is a misdemeanor to work females on streets or roads. (Pell's Rev. of 1908, ch. 

 81, sec. 3596.) 



Every convict sentenced to work upon the public roads who shall perform faithfully 

 the duties assigned him shall be entitled to a deduction of five days from each month 

 of his sentence. Any convict escaping or attempting to escape shall forfeit any 

 and all such deductions accrued up to the time of such escape or attempted escape. 

 (Acts of 1913, ch. 167.) 



North Dakota. 



State. — ^The board of control of the penal and charitable institutions, and the warden 

 of the State penitentiary, shall employ all prisoners sentenced to the State penitentiary 

 in all necessary work in maintaining the institution, or in carrying on the work of the 

 industries established thereat, or at other State institutions, or on the public highways 

 of the State, and shall prescribe rules and regidations relating to the care, treatment, 

 and management of such prisoners. Such pi-isoners shall be employed imder proper 

 supervisors or officers, and may be employed upon the public highways of any county 

 when an agreement has been entered into by the State board of control and the board 

 of commissioners of such county, upon the same conditions as the employment of 

 prisoners at State institutions. The county shall pay all salaries and necessary 

 expense of maintenance, including cost of transportation to and from the penitentiary, 

 and furnish necessary tools and equipment required in carrying on said work. Prison- 

 ers so worked shall receive not less than 10 nor more than 25 cents per day for work 

 actually performed, the maximum compensation to be determined by the State 

 board of control. Prisoners so employed shall be placed on their honor not to attempt 

 to escape. They shall wear plain, inconspicuous garb and shall not be required to 

 work more than 10 horn's per day. The earnings of each inmate of the penitentiary 

 to whom money is paid shall be distributed by the warden monthly in the "tem- 

 porary aid accoimt," "the prisoners' general benefit fund," and the personal accoimt 

 of each prisoner and the "dependent relative" account of such prisoners as have 

 relatives dependent upon them for support, all of which accoimts shall be kept by 

 the warden. Said warden, with the approval of the State board of control, shall 

 establish rules and regulations relating to the conduct of prisoners and shall prescribe 

 penalties for violations thereof. Upon recommendation of the warden, the board of 

 control may allow extra good time to prisoners in addition to the good time otherwise 

 allowed by law. In computing such extra good time it shall in no case exceed the 

 good time now provided by law, and it shall be conditioned on good conduct and 

 diligent work. (Acts 1915, ch. 191.) 



Ohio. 



State. — ^The boards of managers of the penitentiary and of the reformatory, so far 

 as practicable, shall cause all prisoners serving sentences therein, physically capable, 

 to be employed at hard labor not to exceed nine hours each day in the manufacture 

 and production of supplies for such institutions, or for the State or political divisions 

 thereof; or in the production of crushed stone, brick, tile, and culvert pipe. Such 

 products as are used in the construction or repair of pubUc roads shall be furnished 



