| NOV. 1809.
CHAP. 138.
Keeper to keep accounts
concerning
the maintenance
of prisoners, and
separate accounts
of the materials
found, &c. |
LAWS OF MARYLAND.
44. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said keeper
shall cause all
accounts concerning the maintenance of such convicts and prisoners
to be entered regularly in a book or books to be kept for that purpose,
and shall also keep separate accounts of the stock and materials
so wrought, manufactured, sold and disposed of, and the
monies for which the same shall be sold, and when sold, and to
whom, in books to be provided for that purpose, all which books
and accounts shall be at all times open for the examination of the
said inspectors, and shall be regularly laid before them, at their
quarterly or other meetings, for their approbation and allowance.
By 1811, ch. 177, a book keeper to
be appointed, and his salary fixed. See
1817, ch. 72. |
If any of the inspectors
suspect
fraud in keepers,
accounts, he may
examine his deputies
on oath, &c. |
45. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any of the
said inspectors, at
their quarterly or other meetings, shall suspect any fraudulent or
improper charges, or any omission in any of the said keeper's accounts,
they may examine, upon oath or affirmation, the said keeper,
or any of his deputies, servants, or any person of whom any
necessaries, stock, materials or other things, have been purchased
for the use of the said penitentiary, or any person to whom any
stock or materials wrought or manufactured therein, or other things
belonging to the same, have been sold, or any of the offenders confined
in such penitentiary, or any other person or persons, concerning
any of the articles contained in any such account, or any omission
thereout; and in case any fraud shall appear in such account,
the particulars thereof shall be reported by the said inspectors to
the governor of this state. |
Criminal court of
Baltimore to
charge grand jury
to inquire into
conduct of the
keeper, &c. |
46. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the court of
oyer and terminer and
gaol delivery for Baltimore county (a) shall, at each and every term,
charge the grand jury attending to inquire into the conduct and
management of the keeper, deputy and assistants, of the said penitentiary,
and to make presentments of all offences and omissions of
the said keeper, deputy and assistants, 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 penitentiary.
(a) See 1816, ch. 193. |
Executive to lay
before general assembly
a statement
of concerns of penitentiary
annually. |
47. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the executive
of this state, annually, during the first week of the session,
to lay before the general assembly of this state a statement of the
expenses, profits, loss, progress and concerns, of the said penitentiary;
and if the said keeper shall be guilty of any fraud or misconduct,
the governor and council shall immediately remove him
from office, and cause suits to be brought on his bond for the recovery
of any damage or loss that may be sustained, and another
keeper shall be immediately appointed in his place, under the directions
herein before mentioned. |
What persons may
be allowed to enter
within the
walls where prisoners
are confined. |
48. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no person whatever,
except the
keeper, his deputies, servants or assistants, the inspectors, officers
and ministers of justice, members of the general assembly, ministers
of the Gospel, grand jurors, or persons producing a written
license, signed by one of the said inspectors, shall be permitted to
enter within the walls where such offenders shall be confined; and
the doors of all the lodging rooms and cells in the said penitentiary
shall be locked, and all the light therein extinguished, at the hour |
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