The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-04-30
DUBLIC LOCAL LAW.
The Tramp Law.
CHAPTER 624.

AN ACT to Provide Employment at Hand
Labor for certain Glasses of Prisoners in
the Jail of Carroll county, and to repeal
Chapter 80 of the Public Local Laws Of
Carroll county, and all other Acts or parts
of Acts inconsistent herewith, so far as
they relate TO Carroll county.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of Maryland, That it shall and may
be lawful for the Circuit Court for Carroll
county, and any Justice of the Peace having
jurisdiction in the matter of assaults, drunken
ness, disorderly conduct and vagrancy, to
sentence any person or persons convicted OF
any of the above offenses to hard labor in
addition to the other penalties prescribed by
law; provided that such sentence at hard
labor for drunkness, disorderly conduct and
vagrancy shall not exceed sixty days.
SECTION 2 And be it enacted, That the
hard labor provided for in the preceding sec
ton shall be performed under the direction
and supervision of the Mayor and Common
Council of the City of Westminster, and all
expense attending such direction and super
vision shall be borne by the City Of West.
minister. The labor may be performed upon
any of the streets and alleys Of the City OF
Westminster, and upon the county roads
leading into the said city, and may include
every service necessary to grading, macadam-
izing and repairing such streets and alleys,
and said public roads.
SECTION 8. And be it enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the County Commission
ers of Carroll county, after the passage oil
this Act, upon the request of the Mayor and
Common Council of the City of Westminster,
to deliver atsuch places and in such quantities
as the said Mayor and Common Council
shall designate, stone of character suitable
To be broken with stone hammers and fit for
road making and improvements, such stone
to be used only on the public roads of the
county; and the said County Commissioners
shall also furnish, upon an order of the
Mayor and Common Council of the City OF
Westminster, sufficient stone hammers to
break the stone necessary for the improve
ment of the public roads designated in Section
of this Act.
SECTION A. And be it enacted, That eight
hours shall constitute a days work at hard
labor, and such hard labor shall be perform
ed between the hours of 8 o'clock, a. M, and
5 o'clock, p. m. No prisoner sentenced
under this Act shall be exempt from hard
labor except through physical inability,
properly certified to by the physician to the
jail. Should any prisoner or prisoners prove
refractory and stubborn, and refuse to work
or to perform the work in proper manner,
the sheriff shall place such prisoner or
prisoners in close confinement, solitary if
possible, within the Jail, there to be kept on
bread and water until he or they submit to
perform his or their work properly, and obey
orders from the authority under whose super
vision he or they must work. The time of
refusal to work shall not be deducted from
the sentence of any person or persons who
shall so refuse.
A. L. II
beggars and vagabonds who roam about from
place TO place, without any lawful business or
occupation, sleeping in outhouses, barns,
sheds, or in the open air, and not giving a
good account of themselves, shall be deemed
Migrants and liable to the penalties of this act
SECTION 6. Be it enacted, That the Sheriff
of Carroll county shall report to the Mayor and
Common Council of Westminster, or to the of.
ficer of the City of Westminster under whose
supervision the hard labor provided for in this
act is 10 be performed, Immediately upon their
reception into Jail, the names of all prisoners
sentenced to hard labor and the length of sen.
tence of each. The said sheriff of Carroll
county shall deliver to the officer of Westmin-
ster under whose supervision the hard labor
contemplated by this act is to be done, upon
his request, all prisoners in his custody under
sentence at hard labor, and receive them up
on their return by said officer of Westminster,
and for this delivery and reception the sheriff
shall be entitled to a fee of twenty-five cents
for each delivery and twenty five cents for re-
ception ofeachof said prisoners each and every
day, said fees to be paid by the County Commits
sioners of Carroll county; and the sheriff shall
retain custody and control of said prisoners
while at labor, and shall see that the work to
be done by them is performed according to
the requirements of the said Mayor and Com
mon Council, or their authorized officer; and
for such custody and control of said prison.
ers and supervision of the work done by them