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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 everykind 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 levied, for the purpose 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 regulations relating to the care, treatment, 
and management of such prisoners. Such prisoners shall be employed under 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 hot be required to 
work more than 10 hours 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 account," "the prisoners' general benefit fund," and the personal account 
of each prisoner and the "dependent relative" account of such prisoners as have 
relatives dependent upon them for support, all of which accounts 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 prison ers 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 public roads shall be furnished 
