1911_public local laws_282_14
CHAPTER 281 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND KEEP- ING IN REPAIR THE PUBLIC ROADS OF FORSYTH COUNTY. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
That all male prisoners confined in the county jail of Forsyth County under final sentence of the court for crime or imprisonment for nonpayment for cost or fines, or under the vagrant acts, all male insolvents who shall be imprisoned by any court in said county for nonpayment of costs, and all male persons sentenced in said county to the States Prison for a term of less than ten years shall be worked on the public roads of the county. Judges of the superior court or the judges of the criminal court, the justices of the peace, and the recorder, police justice or judge of any municipal court, may assign such persons convicted in his court to work on the public roads of said county. All such convicts to be fed, clothed and otherwise cared for at the expense of the county: Provided, that in case of serious physical disability certified to by any county physician or other satisfactory reasan appearing to the presiding judge, said person so convicted may be sentenced to the penitentiary or to the county jail.