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the circuit court of such county, may establish a chain gang in such city, town, or 
county to work the roads and streets therein. Only male prisoners above the age of 
16 shall be worked in such chain gangs. If any county has not a chain gang of its 
own, such prisoners may be hired to any county, city, or town which has one. Such 
city or town council or county board of supervisors or the circuit or the corporation 
court judge shall prescribe necessary rules and regulations for governing and work- 
ing such convicts and shall provide clothing and maintenance expenses. Such 
rules and regulations may be enforced by corporal punishment. Prisoners escaping 
may have one month added to their sentence. Persons held to labor for nonpayment 
of fine or costs shall be credited on same 50 cents for each day they shall solabor, 
but no persons shall be required to so work for more than six months for failure to 
pay such fine or costs. _ Persons so working shall receive the same credit on their 
sentence for good behavior as convicts in the penitentiary. (Code of 1904, title 16, 
ch. 43, sees. 3932-3937; acts 1908, ch. 354.) 
Washington. 
State. — The State highway board may, in its discretion, cause any State road to be 
constructed, either under contract or by force account; and if by force account the 
work shall be done by convict labor to the extent that same may be available and 
advantageously used. When any money shall be appropriated for any State road or 
roads, and the State highway board shall have determined to construct such road or 
roads by convict labor and free labor, as aforesaid, said board may purchase necessary 
road machinery and pay for same from the appropriation made for different roads in 
proportion to the use that will be made of it on each road. Persons physically able 
so to work who are confined in the State penitentiary and not engaged in other work 
by the State board of control may be worked on roads, and said board of control 
shall monthly certify to the State highway commissioner the number of prisoners 
available. Work done shall be under supervision of the State highway commis- 
sioner, but the control and management of all such prisoners shall be under super- 
vision of the State board of control. The expense of the care, maintenance, and 
transportation of all such prisoners shall be paid out of the funds authorized to be 
used for the particular road on which such work is done, provided that a part of such 
expense equaling 25 cents per day per person employed shall be paid out of the appro- 
priation for the maintenance of the particular institution from which such persons 
are taken. (Rem.-Bal., sees. 5869-1-2, 8575-1-3; Laws 1913, chs. 114, 132.) 
State quarries. — The board of geological survey shall cause to be made an investi- 
gation of the road materials of the State and their location; and after such investi- 
gation the State highway commissioner shall select four or more sites for locating 
rock quarries and crushing plants for supplying materials suitable for road building, 
which said sites shall be acquired for the State by the State board of control. When- 
ever such site and quarry is procured, the State highway commissioner may forthwith 
erect thereon such stockades and buildings and purchase and install such rock- 
crushing plants, machinery, appliances, and tools as may be necessary for the keeping 
and working of State convicts thereat, under charge of the superintendent of the 
penitentiary. All rock so crushed shall, upon request of State highway commis- 
sioner, be loaded upon cars or vessels and there delivered to said commissioner for 
use in the construction or maintenance of State or State-aid roads. The surplus not 
so required may be disposed of by the State highway commissioner to counties, cities, 
or towns in the order of application therefor; and if the demand from such counties, 
cities, and towns shall- exceed the supply it shall be equitably apportioned among 
them. All materials used by the State highway commissioner shall be paid for out 
of the appropriation for the particular road on which used, and all such material 
furnished to him or to such counties, cities, or towns shall be at a price of not less 
than 10 per cent above the estimated cost f. o. N b. at place of production. Any addi- 
tional surplus may be otherwise sold for not 'less than the cost of production. A 
"quarries rotary fund" is created, to consist of all moneys received from the sale 
of products of the quarries and some other sources of revenue. Such fund shall be 
used for operating such quarries. A superintendent of quarries may be appointed 
by the State highway commissioner to have and exercise such powers and perform 
such duties in connection therewith as shall be from time to time prescribed. (Rem.- 
Bal., sees. 5907-5914, 6604-2-3; Laws 1909, pp. 39; sec. 1, 810-811, sec. 3, 814, sec. 
7; Laws 1911, chs. 73, 114; Laws 1913, ch. 164.) 
Counties. — The sheriff of each county shall employ all male persons sentenced to 
imprisonment in the county jail in such manner and at such places within the county 
as may be directed by the board of county commissioners. Such convicts who shall 
