Commissioners, and to the Auditor of Public Accounts the number of convicts hired by him during such month, and the amount of hire with which said Board of Prison Commissioner shall be credited and with which the State Road Fund shall be charged. Convicts engaged on State road work may be employed on an average of ten hours a day, but the number of hours per day such convicts may be required to work in any month may vary with the seasons and shall be under the discretion of the Board of Prison Commissioners and the Commissioner of Public Roads.

6. The Board of Prison Commissioners shall Lot work any convict outside the walls of the prison on road or bridge work who has been sentenced to life imprisonment, until he shall have actually served within the walls of the prison five (5) years of such sentence; nor shall any convict sentenced for rape, attempted rape, detaining a woman against her will, arson, or who has escaped or attempted to escape, or who has violated his parole, or who has been convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary more than twice, but such convicts shall serve their respective sentences within the walls of the prison.

7. The Board of Prison Commissioners shall provide rules and regulations whereby each prisoner engaged in any kind of work shall receive a certain sum each day from his earnings, which sum shall not be less than five cents, nor more than fifteen cents per day, the amount thereof to be determined as may be provided by the Board of Prison Commissioners; provided the funds thus accruing to the credit of any prisoner shall be paid to him or to dependent members of his family at such times and in such manner as the Board of Prison Com

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missioners may deem best, but at least twenty-five per cent of such credit shall be left for and paid to each prisoner at the time of his parole or final discharge by the Board of Prison Commissioners; and provided that the warden may, with the approval of the Board of Prison Commissioners, by way of punishment for violation of rules and of propriety, or any other misconduct, cancel or distribute to the family of the prisoner such portion of such credit as he may deem best. At the end of each month the Board of Prison Commissioners shall certify to the Auditor of Public Accounts the amount due each prisoner for that month, and he shall draw warrant on the State Treasurer for the amount so certified.

8. The Board of Prison Commissioners are hereby vested with full power and authority to provide methods and means of employing all convicts who may be retained within the walls of the prison at any time, but such method or means as may be determined or put into effect shall be submitted to the Governor, who shall approve all plans, methods or means which may be suggested or outlined by said board.

§ 9. The Board of Prison Commissioners are hereby empowered to lease a farm or farms or land immediately adjoining either penitentiary or adjacent thereto for the working of convicts thereon, said leases to be limited to the term of the Governor approving same, and the said Board of Prison Commissioners may prescribe all necessary rules and regulations for the support and maintenance of prisoners while at work on such farm or farms, and the contract price of such lease shall be certified to the Auditor by said board and paid as other claims againts the Commonwealth, but no lease so

made by said board shall be binding or effective until the same has been submitted to the Governor and shall have been approved by him.

§ 10. With the approval and consent of the Governor, the Commissioner of Public Roads may employ such civil engineers as may be deemed necessary to assist the State Department of Public Roads in the construction of roads and bridges herein provided for, and the salary and expenses of such engineers shall be paid by the Auditor out of the State road fund upon proper certification by the Commissioner of Public Roads and the approval of the Governor.

§ 11. The Commissioner of Public Roads shall execute a bond to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) for the faithful performance of his duties and that he will diligently care for any and all property belonging to the State, coming into his hands for use in the construction of roads and bridges which bond shall be approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State. The Commissioner of Public Roads may require any employe in his department to execute a bond to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, in a sum to be fixed by the commissioner, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of such employe, which bond shall be approved by the commissioner and filed with the Secretary of State.

§ 12. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Approved March 23, 1916.

CHAPTER 37.

AN ACT relating to and regulating the sanitary condition of foods, to provide for inspection, and creating penalties for the violation thereof.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That every building, room, basement, inclosure or premises, occupied, used or maintained as a bakery, confectionery, cannery, packing house, slaughter house, creamery, cheese factory, restaurant, hotel, grocery, meat market, or as a factory, shop, warehouse, any public place or manufacturing establishment used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of any food as defined by statute, which is intended. for sale, shall be properly and adequately lighted, drained, plumbed and ventilated, and shall be conducted with strict regard to the influence of such conditions upon the health of the operatives, employes, clerks, or other persons therein employed, and the purity and wholesomeness of the food therein produced, prepared, manufactured, packed, stored, sold or distributed.

§ 2. The floors, sidewalls, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, implements and machinery on every such establishment or place where such food intended for sale is produced, prepared, manufactured, packed, stored, sold or distributed, and all cars, trucks and vehicles used in the transportation of such food products, shall at no time be kept or permitted to remain in an unclean, unhealthy or insanitary condition; and for the purpose of this act, unclean, unhealthful and insanitary conditions. shall be deemed to exist if food in the process of production, preparations, manufacture, packing,

storing, sale, distribution or transportation is not securely protected from flies, dust, dirt, and, as far as may be necessary, by all reasonable means, from all other foreign or injurious contamination; or if the refuse, dirt or waste products subject to decomposition and fermentation incident to the manufacture, preparation, packing, storing, selling, distributing or transportation of such food are not removed daily, or if all trucks, trays, boxes, buckets or other receptacles, or the chutes, platforms, racks, tables, shelves, and knives, saws, cleavers or other utensils, or the machinery used in moving, handling, cutting, chopping, mixing, canning or other processes are not thoroughly cleaned daily, or if the clothing of operatives, employes, clerks or other persons therein employed, is unclean.

§ 3. The sidewalls and ceilings of every bakery, confectionery, creamery, cheese factory and hotel or restaurant kitchen shall be so constructed that they can easily be kept clean; and every building, room, basement or inclosure occupied or used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of food shall have an impermeable floor made of cement or tile laid in cement, brick, wood or other suitable material which can be flushed and washed clean with water.

§ 4. All such factories, buildings, and other places containing food, shall be so provided with proper doors and screens adequate to prevent contamination of the product from flies.

§ 5. Every such building, room, basement, inclosure, or premises occupied, used or maintained. for the production, preparation, manufacture, canning, packing, storage, sale or distribution of such food, shall have adequate and convenient toilet rooms, lavatory or lavatories. The toilet room shall