GENERAL PROVISIONS. CHAPTER 271. GENERAL PROVISIONS. AN ACT to authorize the employment of Convicts in the building or repairing of public highways in New Castle County. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: New Castle make agree Trustees of County work ing employ victs Section 1. That the Levy Court of New Castle County Levy Court of is hereby authorized and fully empowered to make any County to agreement with the Board of Trustees of the New Castle ment with County Workhouse, that may seem proper and necessa- New Castle ry to said Court and to said Board of Trustees, for the house regardpurpose of employing any of the able-bodied convicts ment of connow or hereafter confined in the New Castle County Workhouse who are confined or shall hereafter be confined in said Workhouse for a term of imprisonment by virtue of a sentence imposed by the Court of General Sessions or the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the State of Delaware, in and for New Castle County, or by the Municipal Court of the City of Wilmington, to assist in building or repairing any of the public highways in said County. Section 2. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 12, A. D. 1913. GENERAL PROVISIONS. Hard labor on Kent Co. roads for certain orimes at dis Court of Kent Co. having jurisdiction CHAPTER 272. GENERAL PROVISIONS. AN ACT to Provide Employment at Hard Labor for Persons Convicted of Certain Crimes and Misdemeanors in Kent County. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: Section 1. That immediately after the approval of this act it shall be and may be lawful for any Court in cretion of any Kent County having competent jurisdiction in the matters of obtaining money under false pretenses, pointing a deadly weapon, carrying concealed a deadly weapon, gambling, lottery policy writing, assault and battery, assaults, drunkenness, disorderly conduct and vagrancy, and all such other crimes, the punishment for which in the discretion of the Court in passing sentence, should be hard labor, to sentence any male person or persons convicted as aforesaid to hard labor on the public roads and highways of Kent county; provided, nevertheless, that such sentence at hard labor as aforesaid shall not exceed the term of three months. Duty of Sheriff Beggars and vagabonds deemed vagrants are liable to pen alties of this act Section 2. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of Kent County to receive all persons who may be sentenced under the provisions of this act and keep them at hard labor on the public roads and highways as provided herein. Section 3. That all beggars and vagabonds who roam about from place to place, without any lawful business or occupation, sleep in outhouses, barns, market places, sheds, and in the open air, and not giving a good account of themselves, shall be deemed vagrants and liable to the penalties of this act. GENERAL PROVISIONS. day's work at Section 4. Eight hours shall constitute a day's work Eight hours a at hard labor, as provided herein, and such hard labor hard labor shall be performed between the hours of eight o'clock in the morning and five o'clock in the evening. No person sentenced under this act shall be exempt from said labor, Physician's except through physical inability properly certified to certificate if the sheriff of Kent County, or to the "Superintendent able to work of Convict Gangs" to be hereafter provided for. physically un Kent County guards, &c. prisoners Section 5. The Levy Court of Kent County is hereby Levy Court of empowered to employ and pay such assistants, guards, to employ bailiffs, or other persons as may be by them deemed nec- to care for essary to properly care for and manage the persons sentenced as aforesaid and to put into execution the provisions of this act, and to also employ some suitable person to act as, and be known as "Superintendent of Convict Gangs". Such Superintendent shall be sworn in Supt. of as a deputy sheriff in the same manner as other deputy sheriffs are sworn in, and shall have the same powers as other deputy sheriffs now have. Convict Gang" Further duties Kent County Section 6. Whenever "The Convict Gang" or of Sheriff of "Gangs" are working on any road, or part of a road, too far removed from the county jail of Kent county, to make it convenient for their daily transportation to and from the said jail, it shall be the duty of the sheriff of Kent County to provide some suitable place or places for a convict camp or camps in which such persons as may be sentenced under the provisions of this act shall be and remain while not working on the public roads and highways, and he shall further make such provision for feeding the persons sentenced as aforesaid as would be made for them in the county jail of Kent County. taining convict Section 7. The cost to maintain such camp or camps Cost of mainshall be paid by the Levy Court of Kent County to the camps Sheriff of Kent County, in the same manner as allow ance for feed GENERAL PROVISIONS. ances are now made to the sheriff of Kent County, for such maintenance of prisoners confined in the Kent Limit to allow- County Jail; provided, however, that the allowance made for feeding the persons sentenced under the provisions of this act shall not exceed the sum per person as is now or may hereafter be allowed such sheriff for feeding persons confined to the county jail of Kent County. ing Solitary confinement for refractory prisoners Section 8. Should any person sentenced under the provisions of this Act prove refractory and stubborn and refuse to work or perform his or their work in a proper manner, the sheriff of Kent County shall have power to place such prisoner or prisoners in solitary confinement, there to be kept on bread and water until he or they shall submit to perform his or their tasks. Section 9. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved March 17, A. D. 1913. GENERAL PROVISIONS. CHAPTER 273. GENERAL PROVISIONS. AN ACT to Provide Employment at Hard Labor for Persons convicted of Certain Crimes and Misdemeanors in Sussex County. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met: Sussex County tain crimes at any Court of having juris Section 1. That immediately after the approval of Hard labor on this act it shall be and may be lawful for any Court in roads for cerSussex County having competent jurisdiction in the mat- discretion of ters of obtaining money under false pretenses, pointing Sussex County a deadly weapon, carrying concealed a deadly weapon, diction gambling, lottery policy writing, assault and battery, assaults, drunkenness, disorderly conduct and vagrancy, and all such other crimes, the punishment for which in the discretion of the court in passing sentence, should be hard labor, to sentence any male person or persons convicted as aforesaid to hard labor on the public roads and highways of Sussex County provided, however, that such sentence shall be for a period not to exceed three months. Section 2. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of Sussex Duty of Sheriff County to receive all persons who may be sentenced under the provisions of this act and keep them at hard labor on the public roads and highways as provided herein. vagabonds rants liable to Section 3. That all beggars and vagabonds who roam Beggars and about from place to place, without any lawful business deemed vagor occupation, sleep in out-houses, barns, market places, penalties of sheds, and in the open air, and not giving a good account of themselves, shall be deemed vagrants and liable to the penalties of this Act. |
