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:

Section 1. That the Levy Court of New Castle County is hereby authorized and fully empowered to make any agreement with the Board of Trustees of the New Castle County Workhouse, that may seem proper and necessary to said Court and to said Board of Trustees, for the purpose of employing any of the able-bodied convicts now 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 That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.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.