LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1837*

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SEC. 15. And be it enacted. That the said directors shall

Annual

make a report every year, at least ten days before the meeting of

report
required.

the legislature, to the governor of the state, showing the ex-

penses, profits, loss, receipts, disbursements, condition and

progress of the said penitentiary, together with a statement of

the number of prisoners, their age, sex, colour, place of nativity

and conviction, offence, term of confinement, escapes, pardons

and discharges, accompanied by such remarks and suggestions

as may appear necessary to the advancement of the interests of

the establishment, and to possess the people of a general know-

ledge of its concerns; and the governor shall communicate said

report, together with those received from the city court as afore-

said, to the legislature during the first week of the session, with

such recommendations as he may think expedient.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That all the expenses of the

Expenses to

said penitentiary, shall be defrayed out of the funds thereof,

be defrayed.

and no demand shall be made upon the state treasury for that

None from

purpose, except for such sums as may be payable in virtue of

the treasury

appropriations, by acts of assembly heretofore or hereafter to be

made.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That every person convicted of

Solitary

any crime, the punishment whereof shall be confinement in

confinement

the penitentiary, shall be placed and kept in the solitary cells

thereof, on low and coarse diet, for such part or portion of the

time of his or her imprisonment, as the court in their sentence

shall direct and appoint; Provided, that it be not rnore than

Limitation.

one-half, nor less than one-twentieth part thereof; and that the

directors of the said penitentiary, shall have power to direct the

infliction of said solitary confinement, either at the commence-

ment or just before the termination of the said sentence, or at

At what

any time during the same ; Provided, the said solitary confine-
ment shall be inflicted consecutively for the whole of that part

term.
Object.

of said sentence, and the person so confined shall be allowed to

work in his cell, at the discretion of the board of directors, with

a proper and exclusive regard, in enforcing this section, to the

reformation of said prisoner, unless the convict's health, in the

Regard to

opinion of the physician, require his release from said solitary

health.

confinement, in which case he shall be released until his health

be restored.

This section is modified by 1838, ch. 400.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That if any offender sentenced

Prisoners

to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary, shall escape, he

escaping.

or she shall, on conviction thereof, suffer such additional con-

Punishment

finement and hard labour, agreeably to the laws of this state,

as Baltimore city court shall adjudge and direct ; and if any

Officers fee.

keeper, deputy assistant keeper, or other person, shall aid and

aiding
therein.

assist in the escape of any offender confined in the penitentiary,

he or she shall, on conviction thereof, by Baltimore city court,