Boards of Commissioners authorized to purchase ground and erect work house thereon,
and payment therefor......

247

Superintendent of county work house shall be employed

When Superintendent of County Asylum may be required to take charge of county
work house........

247

Board of Commissioners shall give notice that work house is ready for occupancy.......... 247
Persons may be sentenced to county work house instead of county jail, and duty of court
so sentencing person......

247

Delivery of such person to Superintendent of work house, and time for which he shall be
restrained of his liberty
.............................................................. 247
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Court committing person may remit penalty...........
Person sentenced to imprisonment in county jail may be transferred to workhouse...... 247
Penalty in case Sheriff or jailor shall neglect or refuse to obey order for such transfer.... 248
Prisoners and persons kept in workhouse shall be kept at hard labor.........
.............................. 218
Where and at what prisoners may be required to work.
248

Such work shall be done under supervision of superintendent ......................................... 248
Persons sentenced to imprisonment for failure to pay fine, etc., under ordinance or law of
town or city, may be committed to work house of county, etc...
Superintendent of work house shall make quarterly reports.
Disposition of money received by such superintendent........
Grand jury shall make inspection of work bouse, and inquiry as to income and expenses,
etc., and report to court

Disposition of such report of grand jury...

248

248

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248

249

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249

Who may visit work house and prisoners for purpose of determining whether rules, etc.,
are enforced, etc...........

County physician shall visit work house............................................................................................................................................................................ 249
Bond of superintendent...................

249

Discipline of prisoners, and arrest of escaped prisoners from work house..... ...................................... 249
In case there is work house in county, owned by town or city, commissioners may make
contract with such town or city for custody, etc, of able-bodied persons sentenced
to confinement in county jail...

Jailer and Sheriff shall obey orders, etc., of commissioners, and penalty for failing so
to do..............

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Punishment which may be inflicted on prisoners who refuse to work..

Credit which party shall be allowed per day, when committed to work house for failure
to pay fine, etc......

250

250

WRITS OF ERROR-

Abolished....

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