Page images
PDF
EPUB

law, as to white females on the House of the Good Shepherd of the city of Baltimore.

1894, ch. 187.

329 B. All courts and justices of the peace are hereby authorized and empowered to commit colored females to said corporations, for like causes, in like manner and for like terms as they are now by law authorized to commit white females to the "House of Good Shepherd" of the city of Baltimore, and the judge of the criminal court, the president of the board of police commissioners and the marshal of police of the city of Baltimore shall, at such times as they think proper, visit and inspect the said institution.

House of Refuge.

1892, ch. 396.

353. The estate and concerns of said corporation shall be managed and conducted by the twenty-four managers, of whom ten shall be elected by the members of the association, and ten appointed by the mayor and city council of Baltimore, and four shall be appointed by the Governor, in the month of February annually.

House of Refuge Female.
1890, ch. 435.

373 A. Every person who has paid, or shall hereafter pay to the funds of said institution, fifty dollars in any one year, or ten dollars annually for the term of six years, shall be a member for life; and every person paying any sum not less than five dollars, shall be for one year next after such payment a member of said institution, and the treasurer's book shall be prima facie evidence of such membership; but permanent members may be elected by the directors from time to time on such terms as the directors may prescribe.

State Penitentiary.
1892, ch. 44.

393. The warden of the penitentiary shall annually appoint, subject to the approval of the board of directors, an assistant warden, a bookkeeper, physician and matron, and as many

deputy keepers, guards or other officers as he may deem necessary for the service of the institution, and shall also regulate and determine their respective duties as far as may be consistent with law.

1892, ch. 44.

396. The directors shall fix and determine the amount of the salaries to be paid to the assistant warden, bookkeeper, physician, matron, deputy keepers, guards and other officers employed in the penitentiary, and shall prescribe the oath to be taken by all such officers or other persons officially connected with the institution before entering upon their respective duties; and shall take from them respectively the bond required by the preceding

section.

1894, ch. 148.

397. The warden shall receive a salary at the rate of three thousand dollars per year, and shall be allowed subsistence, fuel and the occupancy of such parts of the front building as a dwelling, as are not used for purposes of the penitentiary, and all necessary out houses, yards and grounds not within the walls of the prison proper, but shall receive no other pay, emoluments or perquisites for his services.

1890, ch. 590.

406. The directors may enter into such contracts for the employment of the convicts in the penitentiary and for the sale of the manufactures in the institution as they may deem proper, but shall not enter into any contract for the making or manufacturing of the articles known as tin cans, used for oyster and fruit packing purposes, or iron stoves used for heating and cooking purposes, or iron castings used for machinery purposes, nor employ any convicts in the making thereof; the directors may, however, employ an agent or agents for the purchase of articles. or goods wanted by the institution, and allow the agents so employed such compensation as the directors may deem right and proper; provided, that nothing herein contained shall interfere with present existing contracts.

State Penitentiary-Convicts.

1892, ch. 273.

424 A. In every prison in this State, to which persons convicted of any felonious offense are or may be committed by the courts of this State, the warden or other officer in charge shall record or cause to be recorded in a record kept for that purpose, a description of every person committed to such prison under a sentence for a felony, and also the criminal history of every such person so committed, as far as the same may appear from the records of the courts of this State or of any other State or otherwise, as full and complete as may be obtainable, and shall attach thereto a photograph or photographs of such person so recorded.

Ibid.

424 B. For the purpose mentioned in the next preceding section, the State's attorney of the county or city in which a criminal has been convicted and sentenced to prison for a felony, shall forward to the warden or other officer in charge at the request of such warden or other officer, and upon blanks furnished by him, a criminal history of such criminal as fully as is known, or can be ascertained by such State's attorney.

Ibid.

424 c. The register herein provided for shall not be made public, except as may be necessary in the identification of persons accued of crime and in the trial of offenses committed after having been imprisoned for a prior offense. The record shall be accessible, however, to any officer of any court having criminal jurisdiction in this State, upon the order of the judge of the court, or of the State's attorney of the county or city in which the person is being held for a crime, which said order shall be attested by the seal of the court, and any such record may be given in evidence upon any trial of any offender indicted under the habitual criminal law of this State for the purpose of proving a former conviction or convictions, and the offense or offenses for which convicted.

1892, ch. 273.

424 D. For the purpose of obtaining accurate descriptions of criminal convicts, the warden or other officers in charge of the several prisons in this State, are hereby authorized to adopt the Bertillon method of measurement and registration or such other method as shall minutely describe convicts.

Ibid.

424 E. A copy of the description and of the history and of the photograph or photographs of any convict entered upon such record or register, shall be furnished upon the request of any warden or other officer in charge of a prison for felons in any any other State of the United States to such warden or other officer in charge, provided such State has made provision by law for requiring the descriptions of its criminals convicted and for furnishing such descriptions to the authorities of such other States as have made provisions by law for the keeping of regis tries of descriptions and history of their convicts.

Ibid.

424 F. A copy of the description, history and photograph or photographs of any convict entered upon such records, shall be furnished to any officer of the bureau of police in the cities where penitentiaries are or may be located upon the order of the superintendent of the police thereof; also on or before the twentyeighth of each and every month, the warden of the State penitentiary or penitentiaries located in said city or cities, shall furnish to the board of police commissioners of said city or cities the name of said convicts whose sentences expire the following month, together with the date when sentence commenced, the county or city from which committed, the crime for which committed and the exact day when the convict will be discharged.

State Penitentiary-Removal of Insane Convicts.
1890, ch. 123.

433 A. Whenever the board of directors of the Maryland penitentiary may deem it necessary, they shall have full power

to summon the State lunacy commission to examine and pass upon the mental condition of the convicts, and if the convict or convicts so examined be adjudged insane or lunatic by said commission, or a majority thereof, and removal be deemed advisable, said commission shall make complaint to the judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, who shall have the power to order the removal of such insane or lunatic convict or convicts to some insane asylum within the State, and all expenses incurred in the removal and support of said insane or lunatic convict or convicts shall be borne by the State of Maryland.

ARTICLE

XXX.

DEAF, DUMB AND BLIND-EDUCATION OF.

3. Amount of annual appropriation for such instruction.

1892, ch. 272.

3. A sum not exceeding twenty-one thousand dollars shall be annually appropriated to be applied under the direction of the Governor in placing for instruction in the Maryland School for the Blind, formerly known as the Maryland Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, such indigent blind persons of the age of seven years and upwards, inhabitants of this State, and of the county or city from which they are recommended, as may be recommended to the Governor by the county commissioners of each county or by the judges of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore city.

« PreviousContinue »