West Virginia Code § 17-5-9

Commissioner to pay expenses of convicts and cost of equipment and
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The expenses incident to the transportation of convicts and prisoners, their food, clothing,
medical attention and maintenance while in the state convict road force shall be paid by the
state road commissioner, and all equipment, materials, tools, teams and machinery
necessary in the prosecution of the work shall be provided out of any funds eat his disposal
available for the building, surfacing, paving and completing of the roads upon which such
convicts and prisoners labor. And when a convict is discharged at campr the commissioner
shall pay him any sum due him and may pay in whole or in part his expenses home.
In any case of a prisoner taken from the penitentiary to a road convict camp the state road
commissioner shall pay for the per diem cost of feeding, clotthing and caring for such
prisoners.

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