Show I CONVICTS BUILD GEORGiA ROADS i Labor Apportioned to Counties Coun COUll- I I ties Ac According to Number lumber I. I of Miles Jl of Post Roa Roads s. s Georgia emlo employs J practically all h her her- r j bodied able-bodied male convicts convict In road I building In 1 1509 the time state abandoned the time old system of 0 leasing prisoners rs to i private contractors ard and e that time an Increasing number have hat been cm- cm on the thc roid roads II Th The work has hal been oon considered successful suc sue I In iii spite spite-of or of t the e system under I which it is organized and amid which could I Inot not nOl lead to the bet best results There has hall I been boen no central system I o 0 of state roads rondi t i under a n responsible highway commission commis cominis- slon sion Each county ha has built bunt it Its roads i I petitioning the tho state prison commit commit- I slon sion for tor the thc number of ot convicts con n eA- eA I sary for tor Its Ite undertakings The matter I of ot the convicts to the e several at counties has been beset with ties and especially this past liast t year owing to an unfortunate change In tho the law Judge Cann of or Savannah l reporting on this chan change e to the thC national tec te on prisons slates t that under unde time the i new now law the thc convicts are arc to be bl apportioned amongst time the clun counties leC according i to the mileage of or rural po port t roads It Il Is practically Impossible Judge Can Cann i points out out to make the distribution upon this basis owing to th the difficulty 1 of or ascertaining the time mileage de definitely lY 1 and because man many counties are claimIng claiming claim claim- Ing Ins greater mileage ge of ot roads than timan those legally established Judge Cann further r states tatos his conViction con- con coni i I that the law will be chan changed ed at it the session 0 of the timo general as assembly during time tile summer o or 1317 1917 With this In iii view the national Com Committee om- om on r prisons r is bringing before the tho citizens of or Georgia time the advantages of ot a state highway commission which I would be responsible for all alJ the the of-the state Such a n could hire time the prisoners from rom th the thc state prison commission for fOJ the road work the prison commission remaining responsible Bible sible for them thorn except wh n actual actually working on the thc roads |