The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-20
GENERAL LAW s
Enacted By the Legislature of Alabama

To provide for the hiring, management, control and inspection of county con- victs. Be it enacted by the Legislature Of Alabama:
 Section l. Laws concerning State con- victs applicable to county oonvlets. All laws of the State and rules of the Board of Inspectors in regard to State convlets shall apply also to county eonvlets as far as applicable, except as otherwise pro- yided by law.
 Sec. g. Under control of the County Commissioners. Hard labor for the eouu- " shall be under the superintendenee and control of the Court of County Commits sioners, or Board of Revenue. who shall determine in what manner and on what particular works the labor shall be per formed, and all convicts sentenced to hard labor for the county shall be under the direction and control of the Court Of County Commissioners, or Board of Rev. enue, when worked or hired in the coun- ty where convicted, but otherwise they are to be under the superintendenee and control of the Board of Inspectors of Con- victs.
 Sec. 3. When supplies, etc., furnished by county; labor on county works. It shall be the duty of the Court of County Com missioners, or Board of Revenue, to make provision out of the county treasury for suitable food, clothing. lodging, medicine and medical attention, for such of the convicts sentenced ot hard labor for the county as are not let to hire under the provisions of this article. and from time to time give directions, general or special. for the employment of such convlets sen- fenced to hard labor for the county, as are ordered to labor on the public works of the county.
 Sec. 4. Record kept of convets sem fenced to. hard labor; report of Judge or Probate, or agan.. A record shall also be kept in the office of the Board Of ln- speetors, similar to that provided to be kept for State convicts, of all persons who are sentenced to hard labor for the county, and who, under the provisions or this article, may be eonfieded to their su- pervision and the Judge of Probate, or agent of hard labor for the county, snail report to the board at such times as the hoard may prescribe, the name, age, sex and race of each person sentenced to hard
 
 sentence, additional term for costs date of expiration of sentence, and amount or costs: any Judge of Probate falling or neglecting to make or to have made ov the agent of hard labor for his county, the reports required by law, may ee im- peached as in other cases; and he and the sureties on his official bond shall be liable to any person for all damages sustained by reason of such failure. The moneys arising from the hire of county convicfs shall be collected and disbursed In the same manner and by the same officers as provided by law now in force in the re- spective counties.
 Sec. 5. Record of oonviots kept by Judge of Probate. The Court of County Com missoners, or Board of Revenue, snail provide a well-hound book, to be kept in the office of the Judge of Probate, sub ject, during office hours, to the inspec- ton of the public, in which he shall enter the name of each convict sentenced to hard labor for the county, the date Of hire the name of the hirer, the place where convict is to labor, the length or sentence and the sum for which the convict was hired. and he shall also keep a record of the eonvicts sentenced to the penitentiary showing the name the or fense of which he was convicted. and the date and termination of his sentence.
 Sec G. Inspection of county eonyiets; stipulation in contract of hires removal of convicts. When convicts are sentenced to hard labor for the county, and hired out by the Court of County Commits .l,o l,o tba dtifv af the inSDpc- tor of State convieis to visit such con- victs whenever they shall deem 1t neoes- sary, and they shall rigldly scrutinize and inquire into the treatment and man agement of such convicts, and shall re- port to the Judge of Probate, in writing, the condition and treatment of such con- yicts. No contract shall be made by such court for hiring county conyicts, without stipulation therein that the contract shall end if the bond, in the opinion of the Judge of Probate. be- comes insufficient, or if any convict IS treated cruelty or inhumanly by the hrer or his employees. Whenever the Board or Inspectors shall notify the Governor that convicts who have been sentenced to hard labor for the county should be re- moved from the place where they are at labor, or from the control of the per- son who has them hired, it shall be his duty to order the Judge of Probate of the county where said convlcts were convicted, to remove them from such place, or to annul such contract, as the case may be, and any Judge of Probate neglectng or refusing to obey such order shall be liable to impeachment and re- moval from office, as provided for in other cases, and when in case the con- tract is annulied, or the convcts re- moved under this section, they may be kept in any jail in the State until they can be hired out again or disposed of in some other legal manner Sec. 2. Official appointed to visit and report upon convicts hired within the county. The Court of County Commis- sioners or Board of Revenue of each county, the convicts of which are hired within the county and not engaged in mining. shall designate one of their number, or some other suitable person, to visit and inspect such conyicts once a month. The person designated shall make monthly reports of the treatment of such conyicts to the President of the Board Of Inspectors and shall receive such conn