951.04  Duty of county commissioners upon discharge of prisoner.--When a prisoner is discharged by reasons of having served his or her sentence, or upon receiving a pardon or parole, he or she shall be furnished transportation, or its equivalent in money, back to the place from which the prisoner was sentenced, together with the sum of $5, where the sentence is for 4 months or more, and the sum of $3 where the sentence is for a lesser period than 4 months, in addition to his or her transportation, all of which shall be paid out of the general fund of the county in which he or she was convicted, and for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the clerk of the board of county commissioners of each county shall, under the directions of said board, issue a check on said fund with which to pay these amounts to the prisoners being discharged at the time of their release.