LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1837.

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institution, for any injury done to the property or effects of the

said institution, or for the breach of any contract made with the

said directors in their official capacity, or on the official bonds

of any officer who shall commit a breach thereof, and to prose-

cute said suits to judgment and execution ; Provided, that the

Proviso.

lien and preference incident to suits and claims of the state of

Maryland, shall not be considered to attach to the claims and

suits of the said penitentiary.

SEC. 23. And be it enacted, That any money, bank notes, or

Whatever

chattel property, employed, used or attempted to be used, or in-

is employed

troduced within or about the buildings, yards or enclosure of

to procure
release of

the said penitentiary, for the purpose of rescuing or procuring

prisoner,
forfeited.

the release of any convict confined in the said penitentiary f

shall be forfeited thereby to the use of the state, and the direc-

tors may and shall take possession thereof, and appropriate the

same, by sale or otherwise, to the use of the penitentiary, and

they may prosecute in the name of the state, any suit or suits

that may be necessary for the recovery or forfeiture of such

money, bank notes or property.

SEC. 24. And be it enacted. That no contract for the supply

Proposals

or victualling of the penitentiary, shall be made by the agents,

for supplies.

unless they shall first have given one week's public notice in

Contract.

all the daily papers in the city of Baltimore, inviting proposals,

and setting forth the quantity and quality of the provisions re-

quired, and the time within which all proposals for said supply

shall be made, and they shall accept such proposals as may, in

their opinion, under all circumstances, be most advantageous to

the institution ; and the party with whom any contract may be

made, shall enter into bond, with security, approved by the

Bond

agent, and not connected with the prison in any way whatever,

required*

in double the amount of the estimated contract, conditioned for

the faithful performance thereof, and it shall be the duty of the

said agents, to rescind any contract as soon as there shall be a

failure to comply therewith, and the directors may direct a suit

On failure.

on said bond, for damages sustained by reason of the said non-

compliance, as herein before mentioned in the twenty-first

section of this act.

SEC. 25. And be it enacted. That the following rules and

Rules.

regulations shall be observed at the said penitentiary, and the

same may be altered or modified, and new ones adopted, as pro-

vided in the first article thereof:

Article 1. Directors. — The directors shall hold regular stated

Meetings of

meetings once in each month, or by adjournment from time to

directors.

time, and shall also meet when occasion may require) the

warden or two directors giving notice thereof; they shall

keep minutes of their proceedings, and a majority shall be a

quorum for the transaction of business ; it shall be their duty