| NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 138. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
shall be made, shall be provided by order of any three of the inspectors
(a), during which labour the said offenders shall be kept
separate, apart and from each other, if the nature of their several
employments will admit thereof, and where the nature of such employment
require two or more to work together, the keeper of the
penitentiary, or one of his deputies, shall, if possible, be constantly
present.
(a) See note to section 38. |
To be kept at
work every day,
except Sundays &
Christmas day, &c. |
30. AND BE IT ENACTED, That such offenders,
unless prevented
by ill-health, shall be employed in work every day in the year, except
Sundays and Christmas day, and such days when they shall
be confined in the solitary cells; and the hours of work in each day
shall be as many as the season of the year, with an interval of one
half an hour for breakfast, and one hour for dinner, will permit,
but not exceeding eight hours in the months of November, December
and January, nine hours in the months of February and October,
and ten hours in the rest of the year, and when such hours of
work are past, the working tools, implements and materials, or
such of them as will admit of daily removal, shall be removed to
places proper for their safe custody until the hour of labour shall
return. |
Industry, how to
be encouraged in
convicts having no
property. |
31. AND BE IT ENACTED, That in order to encourage
industry,
as an evidence of reformation, separate accounts shall be opened
by the keeper, in the books of accounts to be kept by him, for all
convicts who have no property, and are sentenced to hard labour
for six months or upwards, in which such convicts shall be charged
with the expenses of their prosecution, conviction, and removal to
the penitentiary, and of clothing and subsistence, and of such
proportional part of the expenses of the raw materials upon which
they shall be employed, as the inspectors (b), at their quarterly
or
other meetings, shall think just, and shall be credited with the sum
or sums from time to time received by reason o their labour; if
the same shall be found to exceed the said expenses, the said excess
shall be laid out in making restitution to the party injured,
and if none is adjudged, then in decent raiment for such offenders
at their discharge, or otherwise applied to their use and benefit, as
the said inspectors (b) shall upon such occasion direct; and if
such
offender, at the end or other determination of his or her term of
confinement, shall labour under any acute or dangerous distemper,
he or she shall not be discharged, unless at his or her own request,
until he or she can be safely discharged.
(b) See note to section 38. |
Offenders escaping,
to suffer additional
confinement
and hard labour,
and also corporal
punishment. |
32. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any such offender,
sentenced
to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary, shall escape, he or
she shall, on conviction thereof, shall suffer additional confinement
and hard labour, agreeable to the directions of this act, and shall
also suffer such corporal punishment, not extending to life or limb,
as the court of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for Baltimore
county shall adjudge and direct. |
Keepers, deputies,
and others, aiding
an escape to be
confined. |
33. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any keeper,
deputy, assistant,
or other person, shall wilfully and corruptly aid and assist in the
escape of any offender confined in the penitentiary, every such keeper
deputy, assistant, or other person, upon being duly convicted
thereof, shall be sentenced to undergo a confinement in the penitentiary
for a term of time not more than fifteen years. |
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