214 BULLETIN 414, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
and each convict so worked shall receive 50 cents, first on his fine and then on costs 
for each day he may labor. Said court shall at each term allow the court officers and 
witnesses such amount of their costs, not to exceed one-half, as have been so satisfied in 
full by labor, which shall be paid from the road and bridge fund. For faithful sendee 
and good behavior said court may grant a reasonable commutation of time for which 
a convict is committed, but not in any case more than one-tenth of the whole time. 
The commissioners' court may provide for necessary houses, prisons, clothing, bedding, 
food, medical attention, superintendents, and guards; and may prescribe such rea- 
sonable regulations and punishments as may be necessary to secure good work. (Rev. 
Civil Stats., 1911, title 119, sees. 6967, 6979.) 
Utah. 
State. — The prisoners in the county jail may be required to work upon county roads 
under regulations made by the county board of commissioners, and prisoners in the 
State prison may be required to work upon State roads, or in providing road materials. 
State convicts so worked shall be under the authority and control of the State Road 
Commission, the State Board of Corrections, and the warden of the Utah State Prison, 
but actual supervision of the work shall be under such competent persons as may be 
selected by the State Road Commission. Such convicts shall not be worked more 
than eight hours per day, and the State Road Commission may designate from time 
to time the roads on which such labor shall be performed. Said State Road Commis- 
sion shall cause surveys to be made and plans and specifications to be prepared, and 
shall designate the materials to be used. Rights of way for State roads to be improved 
by such convict labor shall be secured by the county commissioners. Bridges and 
culverts necessary on such roads shall, as far as practicable, be built with convict 
labor, and according to plans approved by the State Road Commission. Any mate- 
rials necessary to be purchased for such bridges and culverts shall be paid for by the 
State Road Commission out of that portion of the State Road Fund available to the 
county where such bridge or culvert is located. Funds are provided by the legis- 
lature to pay extra guards and foremen and for the purchase of tools, implements, 
blasting materials, supplies, and equipment necessary in prosecuting said work. 
(Laws 1911, ch. 76.) 
Counties. — The board of county commissioners may provide for working misde- 
meanor prisoners confined in the county jail, upon the public grounds, roads, streets, 
alleys, or public buildings, when such prisoners are liable to labor. (Acts 1911, 
ch. 119.) 
Vermont. 
Counties. — All male prisoners under sentence in a county jail may be required by 
the sheriff to work not more than 10 hours each day within or without the walls of 
the jail. The labor to be performed shall be classified and fixed, from time to time, 
by the sheriff and shall be subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, 
and said sheriff may require said prisoners to work on the public highways. Said 
sheriff may spend such sum as may be necessary for the purchase of materials and 
tools. The proceeds of such labor, if any, shall be applied in payment for such mate- 
rials and tools, and one-half of any balance thereafter shall be turned over to the 
State treasurer and the remaining half shall be paid to the wife and minor children 
of said prisoner, if any there be, and if there are no such, then to him on his discharge. 
If a prisoner shall escape while employed without the jail walls he shall be guilty of 
prison breach and punishable accordingly. (Pub. Stats. 1906, sees. 6104-6107, as 
amended; acts 1915, Nos. 1 and 223.) 
Sheriffs of the several counties may employ, or cause to be employed, able-bodied 
prisoners, confined in the county jails upon conviction for crime, in improving the 
public highways within a radius of 30 miles from such jail and outside of a city or 
incorporated village. Such sheriff, or keeper of each jail, may make such rules and 
regulations as he deems necessary for the care and safe-keeping of such prisoners, 
subject to approval of the attorney general and the governor. The State highway 
commissioner, subject to approval of the sheriff of each county, shall designate the 
highways upon which labor shall be performed; and such highways, or portions 
thereof, so designated shall be under the control of such State highway commissioner 
or his assistants during such work, but the care of the prisoners while so employed 
shall be under the sheriff or his deputies. Persons interfering with such prisoners 
while so employed are subject to arrest without warrant and to fine or imprisonment. 
(Acts 1912, No. 244.) . 
