of correction for a period not less than two months nor more than six months; and on a second or subsequent commitment of the same person for any of the said causes, he or she, in the discretion of the justice, may be sentenced to double the term of the first commitment; provided, that any person that may be brought before a justice of the peace as herein mentioned shall have a right to appeal to the circuit court for the county, or, if in the city of Baltimore, to the criminal court of said city, where the same shall be tried as other crimes and misdemeanors. This section not to apply to Frederick county.

1888, art. 27, sec. 315. 1874, ch. 233, sec. 11. 1878, ch. 415. 1884, ch. 513.

471. Every person committed or sentenced to said house of correction shall be kept at some useful employment, or hired out for such useful employment as may be best suited to his or her age, and most profitable to the institution; and if the person shall refuse to perform the work assigned to him or her, or be guilty of acts of insubordination or misconduct, such person shall be punished in such manner as the regulations prescribed by said board of managers shall provide; and a record shall be kept of every punishment inflicted and the cause thereof, in a book which shall be kept at the institution, and shall always be laid before the said board of managers at its meetings; and it shall be the duty of the board to exercise a careful supervision and control over the punishments inflicted.

Ibid. sec. 316. 1874, ch. 233, sec. 12.

472. Any person committed to said house of correction by a justice of the peace may apply for a writ of habeas corpus to any judge of any court of record; and upon return thereof, such judge, if he shall deem that there is sufficient ground for so doing, shall hear the evidence offered and either discharge the applicant or modify or confirm the commitment.

Ibid. sec. 317. 1874, ch. 233, sec. 13.

473. The board of managers shall, in their discretion and with reference to the uniform good conduct therein of the persons committed or sentenced to said institution, allot and pay over to such persons, at the time of their release, a portion of the earnings of their labor.

1888, art. 27, sec. 318. 1874, ch. 233, sec. 14.

474. In order to further promote good behavior, and tend to reformation, the said board of managers shall provide in their rules and regulations for a correct daily record of the conduct of each of the persons confined in said house of correction and their fidelity and diligence in the performance of their work; and each prisoner shall be entitled to a diminution of the period of his or her confinement under the following rules and regulations :

First. For each calendar month, commencing on the first day of the month next after his or her arrival at the institution, during which he or she shall not be guilty of a violation of the discipline or any of the rules thereof, and shall labor with diligence and fidelity, he or she shall be allowed a deduction of five days from each month of the period of his or her commit

ment or sentence.

Second. For each and every violation of the rules and discipline of the institution or want of fidelity or care in the performance of work, the person therein confined shall not only forfeit all gained time in the month in which such delinquency occurs, but, according to the aggravated nature or frequency of of his or her offense, the board may deduct a portion or all of his or her gained time.

Ibid. sec. 319. 1878, ch. 358, sec. 1.

475. The said board of managers are authorized and directed to hire to the Maryland canal company, upon such terms as may be agreed upon by and between the said board of managers and said canal company, such able bodied male convicts under sentence to said house of correction as may from time to time be applied for by said Maryland canal company; which said convicts, whilst so hired out to said canal company, it shall be the duty of the said managers of the house of correction to clothe, feed and guard in all respects, so far as practicable, as if they were engaged at work within said house of correction; and in payment of the compensation which may be agreed on by and between said Maryland canal company and the said managers of the house of correction for the hire of such convicts, the said canal company shall issue to the said managers of the house of correction, and the said managers shall accept the stock of said Maryland canal company at such rates as may be mutually agreed on.

1888, art, 27, sec. 320. 1878, ch. 358, sec. 2.

476. In order to enable the said managers of the house of correction to discharge the duties imposed upon them by the preceding section they are vested with all powers necessary and proper in their discretion to provide transportation for said. convicts to and from the place or places where they may be engaged at work, and whilst at work to furnish them at all times with sufficient and proper food and clothing.

House of the Good Shepherd.

Ibid. sec. 321. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 1.

477. The house of the good shepherd of the city of Baltimore, a body corporate incorporated under the general laws of this State relating to incorporations, is authorized to receive all such white females under the age of eighteen years as may be committed to the corporation by their parents or guardians and the same to retain within the refuge conducted by said corporation until they reach the age of eighteen years, or to bind them out as apprentices until they reach the said age, as the directors of the said corporation may elect.

Ibid. sec. 322. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 2.

478. White females under the age of eighteen years may be committed to the said house of the good shepherd by a justice of the peace for any of the counties or the city of Baltimore on complaint and due proof made to him by the parents, guardians or next friend of such minor that, by reason of incorrigible or vicious conduct, such minor has rendered her control beyond the power of such parents or guardian or next friend and made it manifestly requisite that, from regard to the morals and future welfare of such minor and the peace and order of society, she should be placed under the guardianship of the house of the good shepherd.

Ibid, sec. 323. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 3.

479. White females under the age of eighteen years may be committed to the said house of the good shepherd by the authority aforesaid when complaint and due proof have been made that such minor is a proper subject for the guardianship of the said corporation in consequence of vagrancy or of incor

rigible or vicious conduct and that, from the moral depravity or otherwise of the parent, guardian or next friend in whose custody such minor may be, such parent, guardian or next friend is unable or unwilling to exercise the proper care and discipline over such incorrigible or vicious minor

1888, art. 27, sec. 324. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 4.

480. The said corporation shall have power to bind out all minors committed to their care, with the consent of such minors, as apprentices during their minority, to such persons and places, within or out of this State, and to learn such proper trades or employments, as in the judgment of such managers will be most conducive to the reformation and the future benefit and advantage of such children; and the indentures by which children shall be bound shall contain the covenants, and shall be recorded as prescribed by law; and all the provisions of this code in relation to white apprentices shall apply to apprentices bound under this section.

Ibid. sec. 325. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 5.

481. The directors of the said house of the good shepherd shall have power to place all the females committed to their care at such employment and cause them to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge as may be suited to their years and capacities; and they shall have power to classify the inmates of the refuge conducted by them and to make all such useful rules and regulations as in their experience they shall from time to time find necessary for the regulation and government of the same.

Ibid. sec. 326. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 6.

482. The said corporation shall have power to receive within the refuge conducted by it all such females as may be committed to it by the criminal court of Baltimore, the circuit court for any county, or any justice of the peace in the State of Maryland under the provisions hereinafter contained and the same to retain within the said refuge for their several terms of commitment; provided, however, that the directors of the said corporation may, at any time prior to the expiration of her term of commitment, discharge and release any female so committed to their care, on being satisfied of her reformation. Ibid. sec. 327. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 7.

483. The judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, or any judge of any circuit court for any county, upon information

that any female under the age of eighteen years in their several counties or the city of Baltimore, as the case may be, leads a disorderly and dissolute course of life, may, upon application of the parent or next friend of such female, issue a warrant or order to be directed to the sheriff or to any constable or police officer in such county or city, commanding him to bring the person against whom the information is so given. before said court or said justice on any day to be named therein, not more than one week from the date of the warrant, to answer to said charge; and the said court or said justice upon proof of said charge may commit such female to the said house of the good shepherd of the city of Baltimore for not less than one week nor more than two months for the first occasion, and not less than one month nor more than six months for the second or any subsequent occasion; provided, however, that in every case so brought before the criminal court of Baltimore or the circuit court for any county the trial shall be by jury, if demanded by the party charged; and if in any case brought as aforesaid before any justice of the peace the party charged shall demand a jury trial, the said justice shall certify said case to the criminal court of Baltimore, or the circuit court for the county, as the case may be, to be proceeded with and tried by said court in the same manner as if the case had been originally brought before said court; and such court or justice may commit said person, in the absence of suitable bail, to the said house of the good shepherd instead of the common jail, pending the said charge.

1888, art, sec. 328. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 8.

484. The directors of the said house of the good shepherd in the city of Baltimore shall annually report to the governor of this State a full account of the operations of the said corporation; and the comptroller of the State shall semi-annually on the first day of January and July draw his warrant on the treasurer to the order of the president of the said corporation for an amount at the rate of twenty cents per diem for each of the average number of females committed by any court or justice of the peace, as hereinbefore provided, who shall have been in the said institution during the preceding six months; and the sum of two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the said twenty cents per day out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.