194 BULLETIN 414, U. S. DEPAKTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
work ou which such prisoners are employed is completed, or for any other reason 
deemed sufficient by said board of control, the State engineer shall cause such pris- 
oners to be returned to the State prison or to other place of employment, together 
with all equipment, supplies, machinery, tools, and implements. The cost of trans- 
porting convicts so employed, and necessary guards, to and from the State prison, or 1 
from one place to another, together with all other expenses necessarily incurred in or 
about the employment of such convicts and the carrying on of any such work shall be 
payable as follows: That portion equaling the maintenance cost at the State prison 
for the number of prisoners employed shall be paid from the prison maintenance fund 
and the remainder from the State road-tax fund. All claims therefor shall be in such 
written form as may be prescribed by the State board of control, approved in writing 
by the State engineer, and audited by the State auditor. Payments shall be by 
wan-ants drawn on the State treasurer and countersigned by the governor. Counties 
availing themselves of this act shall not, during the same fiscal year, be entitled to 
any portion of the State road-tax fund, except such as would be a proper engineering 
charge. (R. S., 193, sees., 5141-5148; Laws 1913. third sp. sess., as amended; Laws 
1915, ch. 35.) 
Counties. — The keepers of the jails of the several counties, when any person shall 
be sentenced to hard labor therein, and any mode of labor shall be provided, shall 
keej) such prisoners constantly employed. Such labor may be performed inside or 
outside the walls of such jails, and, on discharge of the prisoner, shall be reported to 
the board of supervisors. Anysuch prisoner who shall be so employed when sen- 
tenced to pay a fine, and imprisoned in default of such payment^ shall be allowed 
the sum of $1 for each day he shall so work, which shall be credited on such fine 
(R. S., 1913; sees. 1482, 1486.) 
Arkansas. 
State. — The superintendent of the penitentiary may, in his judgment, order the 
roads leading to and in the neighborhood of the several camps now or hereafter occu- 
pied by the inmates of such penitentiary, worked and repaired by the labor of such 
convicts, provided that no such convict shall be required so to work for a greater 
number of days than now allowed by law for regular road hands. (Kirby's Digest, 
1904; sec. 5873). 
The department of State lands, highways, and improvements shall employ as many 
State convicts on the public roads as may not be otherwise employed by the peni- 
tentiary authorities. Convicts so worked shaH be under the care and management 
of wardens and other officers named by the penitentiary authorities, but said depart- 
ment shall determine the work to be done, and the time^ place, and manner of doing 
it. Salaries of wardens and cost of clothing of such convicts while so employed shall 
be paid by^ the State, and the cost of feeding and housing them shall be paid by the 
county or improvement district where they may be worked. When practicable, the 
said department of lands, highways, and improvements may engage State or county 
convicts available in preparing road materials at quarries or elsewhere, and the 
expenses of such work shall be charged to the State or to the county or district receiving 
such materials. (Act 302, 1913, as amended by Act 338, 1915.) 
Counties. — If the county court or judge thereof shall be unable to make a satisfac- 
tory contract for the working of the convicts of the county, said court or judge thereof 
may order the prisoners on the roads, bridges, levees, or other public improvements 
of the county, under such rules and regulations as such court or judge may prescribe. 
Said court or judge shall appoint a superintendent to have charge of said prisoners, 
and he may employ such guards or adopt such means to prevent escape as may be 
necessary. The county court, at its annual meeting for making appropriations, shall 
make necessary appropriations to carry out the purposes of this act, but not more than 
$10,000 shall be appropriated for any one year. \Yhile prisoners are so worked in 
charge of said superintendent, the sheriff shall feed them and receive regular fees 
allowed therefor. If any prisoner shall escape, he shall be compelled to work out 
all costs of his recapture. Commissioners of public roads may supersede such 
superintendent, (Kirbv's Digest, 1904; sees. 1101-1108, 7237-7238.) 
Counties of judicial circuit— -The county judges of counties composing any judicial 
circuit or of any contiguous portion of any judicial circuit may meet and, by unani- 
mous vote, adopt the provisions of this act, whereupon they shall organize by electing 
a chairman and a secretary from among their number and shall, when so organized, 
constitute the countv convict board for said counties. Said board shall purchase a 
road-making outfit and necessary equipment for properly caring for the convicts of said 
counties while worked on the roads therein, an equal portion of the cost thereof to be 
paid bv each of said counties. Each county may furnish such road equipment as it 
may possess and such board may deem suitable, and be allowed therefor its reason- 
