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the circuit court of such county, may establish a chain gang in such city, town, or 

 county to work the roads and streets thereia. Only male prisoners above the age of 

 16 shall be worked in such chain gangs. If any county has not a chain gang of its 

 own, such prisoners may be hired to any coxmty, city, or town which has one. Such 

 city or town council or coimty board of supervisors or the circuit or the corporation 

 court judge shall prescribe necessary rules and regulations for governing and work- 

 ing such convicts and shall pro^ade clothing and maintenance expenses. Such 

 r^lles and regulations may be enforced by corporal pimishment. Prisoners escaping 

 may have one month added to their sentence. Persons held to labor for nonpayment 

 of fine or costs shall be credited on same 50 cents for each day they shall so labor, 

 but no persons shall be required to so work for more than six months for failure to 

 pay such fine or costs. Persons so working shall receive the same credit on their 

 sentence for good behavior as convicts in the peritentiary. (Code of 1904, title 16, 

 ch. 43, sees. 3932-3937; acts 1908, ch. 354.) 



Washington. 



State. — The State highway board may, in its discretion, cause any State road to be 

 constructed either under contract or by force accotmt; and if by force account the 

 work shall be done by convict labor to the extent that same may be available and 

 advantageously used. When any money shall be appropriated for any State road or 

 roads, and the State highway board shall have determined to construct such road or 

 roads by convdct labor and free labor, as aforesaid, said board may purchase necessary 

 road machinery and pay for same from the appropriation made for different roads in 

 proportion to the use that will be made of it on each road. Persons physically able 

 so to work who are confined in the State penitentiary and not engaged in other work 

 by the State board of control may be worked on roads, and said board of control 

 shall monthly certify to the State highway commissioner the number of prisoners 

 available. Work done shall be under supervision of the State highway commis- 

 sioner, but the control and management of all such prisoners shall be imder super- 

 vision of the State board of control. The expense of the care, maintenance, and 

 transportation of all such prisoners shall be paid out of the funds authorized to be 

 used for the particular road on which such work is done, pro"\dded that a part of such 

 ^expense equaling 25 cents per day per person employed shall be paid out of the appro- 

 priation for the maintenance of the particular institution from which such persons 

 are taken. (Rem.-Bal., sees. 5869-1-2, 8575-1-3; Laws 1913, chs. 114, 132.) 



State quarries. — The board of geological survey shall cause to be made an investi- 

 gation of the road materials of the State and their location; and after such investi- 

 gation the State highway commissioner shall select four or more sites for locating 

 rock quarries and crushing plants for supplying materials suitable for road building, 

 which said sites shall be acquired for the State by the State board of control. When- 

 ever such site and quarry is procured, the State highway commissioner may forthwith 

 erect thereon such stockades and buildings and purchase and install such rock- 

 crushing plants, machinery, appliances, and tools as may be necessary for the keeping 

 and working of State convicts thereat, under charge of the superintendent of the 

 penitentiary. All rock so crushed shall, upon request of State highway commis- 

 sioner, be loaded upon cars or vessels and there delivered to said commissioner for 

 use in the construction or maintenance of State or State-aid roads. The surplus not 

 so requii'ed may be disposed of by tlie State highway commissioner to counties, cities, 

 or towns in the order of application therefor; and if the demand from such counties, 

 cities, and toAvns shall exceed the supply it shall be equitably apportioned among 

 them. All materials used by the State highway commissioner shall be paid for out 

 of the appropriation for the particular road on which used, and all such material 

 fiunished to him or to such counties, cities, or towns shall be at a price of not less 

 than 10 per cent above the estimated cost f. o. b. at place of production. Any addi- 

 tional surplus may be otherwise sold for not less than the cost of production. A 

 "quarries rotary fund" is created, to consist of all moneys received from the sale 

 of products of the quaiTies and some other sources of revenue. Such fund shall be 

 used for operating such quarries. A superintendent of quarries may be appointed 

 by the State highway commissioner to have and exercise s»ch powers and perform 

 such duties in connection therewith as shall be from time to time prescribed. (Rem.- 

 Bal., sees. 5907-5914, 6604-2-3; Laws 1909, pp.-39; sec. 1, 810-811, sec. 3, 814, sec. 

 7; Laws 1911, chs. 73, 114; Laws 1913, ch. 164.) 



Counties. — The sheriff of each county shall employ all male persons sentenced to 

 imprisonment in the county jail in such manner and at such places within the county 

 as may be directed by the board of county commissioners. Such convicts who shall 



