The board of workhouse commissioners shall prescribe the kind of labor at which the prisoners shall be put; provided, that when practicable, they shall be worked on the county roads in preference to all other kinds of labor.Acts 1891, ch. 123, § 5; Shan., § 7405; Code 1932, § 12016; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-1212.
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