Section 1
SECTION 1. The provincial board of any province is hereby authorized and empowered, when necessary to the proper maintenance of prisoners confined in the provincial jail, to make contracts for feeding such prisoners at the lowest practicable rate although such rate may be in excess of twenty cents, local currency, per diem; and the provincial board is also authorized and empowered, in ease it is not deemed advantageous to the interests of the province to make contracts with other persons for the feeding of the prisoners, to allow the governor of the province such sum as may be necessary for feeding provincial prisoners, although it may be in excess of said sum of twenty cents, local currency, per diem.