210 BULLETIN 414, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Counties. — Boards of county commissioners may purchase or lease beds of lime- 
stone or other road-building material after same is approved by the State highway 
commissioner as being suitable, or such boards may lease and operate a plant for manu- 
facturing brick or other road materials and supplies. When such purchase or lease 
is made the said board shall make necessary arrangements to work the county con- 
victs thereat, such convicts to include those persons whose punishment, in whole or 
in part, is imprisonment in jail or workhouse, and all persons, physically capable, 
who are confined for failure to pay a fine or costs in a criminal prosecution. All such 
prisoners shall be under control of the board of county commissioners, who may enact 
all needful rules and regulations for the successful working of such prisoners, employ 
a superintendent and necessary guards and attendants, and levy an annual tax, as 
other taxes are levied, for paying the expenses of such convicts and for carrying out 
the purposes hereof. (Page and Adams Anno. Ohio Gen. Code, 1912, sees. 2229-2239.) 
Oklahoma. 
State. — The State board of public affairs and the department of highways are 
required to make all necessary arrangements for working State convicts upon the 
public highways of the State under the following conditions: (a) The State shall 
furnish all tools and machinery and draft animals out of funds appropriated for that 
purpose; (b) the furnisliing of tentage, housing, quarters, and equipment pertaining 
to the custody of the prisoners shall be paid from prison funds available for the main- 
tenance ofsuch prisoners. _ Food, clothing, guarding, sanitary appliances, and med- 
ical attention for convicts in road camps shall be provided by the State the same as 
if the convicts remained at the State prison. The county desiring convicts to work 
upon the State roads must bear the cost of transporting the men, animals, tools, and 
guards, and shall furnish food for animals, board for guards, fuel and supplies for 
power machinery and ordinary repairs to same, paying therefor out of the county 
road and bridge fund. Metal, cement, stone, or other road-building materials shall 
be furnished by the county unless it is planned to produce same with convict labor, 
which is hereby authorized. The State board of public affairs shall formulate rules 
and regulations for the government of State convicts while at work on roads, including 
good-time allowance for good behavior and efficient service. The corporation com- 
mission may make and enforce rates for transportation of persons and freight in con- 
nection with such convict labor. Said work shall be performed on such roads and 
of such kind and character as designated by the board of county commissioners of 
the county where located, and the county shall bear all cost of materials. Convicts 
so worked shall be divided into groups of not exceeding 100 men each and only one 
group may be worked in a county at a time and not for more than five months in any- 
one county in any one year, nor shall any two groups be worked in any county until 
all counties making application therefor shall have received their proportion of work 
by said convicts. (Rev. Laws 1910, sec. 7601, and Acts 1915, ch. 173, art. 5.) 
Counties. — The board of county commissioners may purchase such equipment as 
may be necessary for employing convicts or other labor upon the public roads and may 
pay for same from either the court or road and bridge fund. Said board may work 
any convicts confined in the county jail, either as punishment for crime or in lieu 
of payment of fine and costs, upon the public highways and may employ such guards 
and other assistants as may be required. When in the judgment of said board the 
expense of working convicts upon the highways is too great on account of the small 
number available, or for any other reason, it may provide necessary apparatus and 
work such convicts in crushing rock for use on the public highways of the county. 
Any person working upon the public roads in lieu of payment of fine and costs shall 
be allowed a credit of $1 per day thereon. The board of county commissioners may, 
by agreement with the city council, receive such prisoners of any city, but for the 
services of such city convicts shall only pay the cost of maintenance. Said board 
shall purchase supplies for feeding and maintaining county convicts while at work 
from the lowest and best bidder, and shall furnish wholesome food in sufficient quan- 
titv and variety, together with medical attention when required. (Rev. Laws 1910, 
sees. 7590-7596, and Acts 1913, ch. 112.) 
Oregon. 
State. — The superintendent of the Oregon State Penitentiary shall furnish and use 
such convicts as he may deem reasonably safe for that purpose to do the work neces- 
sary to repair and properly improve the roads leading to certain State institutions. 
A competent road builder may be employed to direct such work, and he may employ 
extra guards and purchase necessary machinery, tools, and materials. Each convict 
so worked shall receive a credit upon his sentence of two days for each day he shall 
