The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1892-02-20

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A BILL.
Entitled An Act to Provide Employment at Hart
Labor for Certain Glasses of Prisoners in the Jai
Of Carroll county, ana to Repeal chapter ~ OF tht
Acts parts of Acts, inconsistent herewith. al
they relate to Carroll county.
SECTION l. Be Il enacted by the Ger.rai assembly o.
Maryland, That it shall and may be lawful for the
Circuit Court for Carroll county, and any Justice oil
the Peace having jurisdiction in the matter of as
sauts, drunkenness, diSorderly conduct and vag-
rancy. to sentence any person or persons convicted
of any Of the above offences 10 hard labor, in addi-
ton to the other penalties prescribed by law prOr
ded that such sentence at hard labor for drunken
ness disordery conduct and yagrancy shall not ex-
coed sixty days.
SECTION . The hard labor provided for in the
preceding section shall be performed under the di-
Tection and supervision Of the Mayor and Common
Council of the City of Westminster, and all expense
attending such direction and supervision shall be
borne by the City of Westminster 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, matchmaking and
repairing such streets and alleys and said public
roads.
SECTION 8. Il shall be The duty of tie County
Commissioners of Carroll county, after the passage
of this act upon the request of the Mayor and Com
Council Of the City OF Westminster, to deliver
At such places and in such quantities as the said
Mayor and Common Council shall designate, stone
of Il character suitable to be broken with stone
hammers and fit for road making and improve
ments, such stone TO be used only on the public
roads of the county and the said County Commits
siOners shall also furnish upon an order of the
Mayor and Common Council of the City of West
Minister sutlctent stone hammers TO break the stone
necessary for the improvement of the public roads
designated in Section of this Act.
SECTION 4. Eight hours shall constitute day
word at hard labor and such hard labor shall he
performed between the hours of s O'Clock, A. NJ and
O'Clock, P. VI. No prisoner sentenced under this
act shall be exempt from hard labor except through
physical inability properly certified to by the physi
clan 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 con-
hnement solitary II 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 supervision
he or they must work The time OF refusal to work
snail not be deducted from the sentence of any ner-
son or persons who shall so refuse.
SECTION 5. All beggars and vagabonds who roam
about froIa place TO place without any lawful bust
ness or occupation, sleeping in outhouses, barns
sheds or in the open air. and not giving good ac-
count of themselves, shall be deemed Migrants and
liable to tho penalties of this act.
SECTION q, The Sheriff of Carroll county shall re-
port 10 the Mayor ana common Council OF West
Minister or TO the officer of the City Of Westminster
under whose supervision the hard labor provided
for in this act is to be performed Immediately upon
their reception into jail, the names of all prisoners
sentenced TO hard labor and the length of sentence
Of each. The said sheriff Of Carroll county shall de-
liver TO the officer of Westminster 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 upon their return by said officer of Westmin-
steF and for this delivery and reception the Sheriff
shall not be entitled to charge any lees
SECTION Z. The officer Of the City of Westm mister
under whose direction and supervision the hard
labor contemplated by this act is to he performed
shall make monthly report to the County Commits
soners of Carroll county and 70 the Mayor and
Common Council of the city of Westminster of his
operations, such report to include the number of
prisoners performing hard labor, the number of
days each worked, the number of perch Of stone
used, the amount OF work done, the cost thereof,
aud such other information that he may deem i'm
portant that may be required by the said County
Commissioners or the said Mayor and Common
Council.
SECTION 8. Chapter 50, Public Local Laws of Cay
roll county approved February 90 1890 relating to
"Drunkards' and drunkenness" is hereby
pealed and also all parts acts inconsistent
with this act so far as they apply to Carroll county
SECTION g. This act shall take effect from the
date offs passage