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to that officer a similar statement to that required to be made to
the Comptroller; and the statements required to be made in this
and the preceding sections, shall be duly sworn to by the warden
and clerk of the penitentiary, before some justice of the peace
of the city of Baltimore.

23. They shall make a report every year, in the month of
December, to the Governor, showing the expenses, profits, loss,
receipts, disbursements, condition and progress of the said peni-
tentiary, together with a statement of the number of prisoners,
their age, sex, color, place of nativity, and conviction, offence,
term of confinement, escapes, pardons, and discharges, accom-
panied by such remarks and suggestions as may appear ne-
cessary to the advancement of the interests of the establish-
ment, and to possess the people of a general knowledge of its
concerns; and the Governor shall communicate said report to
the Legislature, with such recommendations as he may think ex-
pedient.

24. The Criminal Court of Baltimore shall, at each term,
charge the grand jury attending to inquire into the conduct
and management of the warden, assistant warden, and officers
of the Penitentiary, and make presentments of all offences and
omissions of the said warden, assistant warden, and officers
in and relating to the said penitentiary; and the said court
shall, at the terms aforesaid, direct a number not exceeding six
of the said grand jurors, to visit and examine the said peni-
tentiary.

25. The directors may allow female convicts to bring with
them into the penitentiary their infant children; and the di-
rectors shall have the power to bind such children as apprentices,
as directed in Article Apprentices.

26. No person having any connection with the Maryland Peni-
tentiary shall receive from any convict therein, either by devise
or otherwise, any property, real, personal, or mixed; and any
property so devised or bequeathed, shall, notwithstanding such
devise or bequest, be divided among the legal heirs of such con-
vict, according to the laws of this State.

27. Any money, bank notes, or chattel property employed,
used, or attempted to be used or introduced within or about the
buildings, yards, or enclosure of the said penitentiary, for the