Section 14-4-6
Work on public roads - Rules and regulations.
Whenever the county commission of a county deems it to the best interest of the county to use the county convicts in building, repairing and working the public roads of the county, it may so work them under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Board of Corrections, which shall be uniform throughout the state for working county convicts on the public roads.
(Code 1896, §4528; Acts 1907, No. 85, p. 179; Code 1907, §6581; Code 1923, §3684; Code 1940, T. 45, §81.)