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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 S20 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.) 
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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 charge, 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 penitentiary 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; provided, 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 payment thereof by 
sentence of additional labor at the rate of SI per day. Police juries may prescribe 
rules and regulations for the discipline and working of such convicts, 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 
public roads or other public 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 police jury may prescribe rules and regulations for the government and control 
of such prisoners. Any convict 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. (R. 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 mav require that any male pris- 
oner under sentence in jail shall be worked on the public ways or in preparing road 
materials, under such regulations as said board of inspectors 'mav prescribe. (Acts 
of 1905, ch. 126.) 
Maryland. 
State. — The State roads commission may establish a stone-crushing 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, constructing, 
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 correction 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.) 
