476 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

1906, ch. 747.

522. " On the order in writing of the board of County Commissioners
of any county it shall be the duty of the sheriff or other officer having
charge of such prisoners of that county to send, under a competent
guard, such number of able-bodied male prisoners in the county jail
undergoing punishment under sentence of a court or justice of the
peace, as the county may require, to work on any road in said county,
or in any quarry, pit or yard, in preparing materials for use on the
county roads; the County Commissioners are hereby required to reim-
burse the sheriff or other officer out of the county fund for any expenses
he may be put to in conveying the said prisoners to and from such road,
quarry, pit or yard, or in properly guarding the said prisoners while at
work on said road or at said quarry, pit or yard, under the direction of
the county road representative or representatives, and under such regu-
lations as the sheriff or other officer may deem necessary for their
health and safe custody.

III.

PLACES OF REFORMATION AND PUNISHMENT.
House of Correction.*

1904, art. 27, sec. 462. 1888, art. 27, sec. 305. 1S74, ch. 2.33, sec. 1.

523. The Maryland House of Correction, established under the act
of 1874, chapter 233, shall be under the control of the board of man-
agers hereinafter provided for.

The act of 1874, chapter 233, held not to be in violation of article 3,
section 29, of the Md. Constitution. Bond v. State, 78 Md. 523.

Ibid. sec. 463. 1888, art. 27, sec. 306. 1874, ch. 233, sec. 2.
1878, ch. 415. 1884, ch. 513.

524. The said board of managers of the House of Correction shall
consist of the following persons: the governor, comptroller, attorney-
general and treasurer for the time being shall be ex officio members of
said board, together with three persons appointed by the governor, who
shall serve as members of said board, without compensation, for the
term of six years from the first day of May, 1884, and three persons
similarly appointed, who shall serve as members of said board, without
compensation, for the term of four years from the first day of May,
1884, and three persons similarly appointed, who shall serve as mem-
bers of said board, without compensation, for the term of six years from
the first day of May, 1886; and the same board shall be a body cor-
porate under the title of the board of managers of the Maryland House
of Correction, and have power to make such by-laws, rules and regula-

*The act of 1912, chapter 749, authorized the creation of a state debt of four
hundred thousand dollars and appropriated one hundred thousand dollars thereof
for the enlargement and improvement of the Maryland House of Correction.