478 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

1904, art. 27, sec. 465. 1888, art. 27, see. 309. 1874, ch. 233, sec. 7.

527. The title to all the estates and property of the said House of
Correction shall vest in and be held by George Wm. Brown, George S.
Brown and Robert T. Baldwin, of the city of Baltimore, and their
successors, as trustees for the State.

Ibid. sec. 466. 1888, art. 27, sec. 310. 1874, ch. 233, see. 8. 1878, ch. 415.

1884, ch. 513.

528. Whenever any person may be convicted in any of the courts
of this State for any crime or misdemeanor, who is liable under exist-
ing law to be sentenced to imprisonment for a period not less than two
months and not exceeding one year, such court may, in its discretion,
sentence such person to be confined in said House of Correction instead
of other place of confinement.

There is no conflict between this section and section 531 (as it stood prior
to the act of 1910, chapter 739) ; sentence under section 531, held proper.
Bond v. State, 78 Md. 524.

Ibid. sec. 467. 1888, art. 27, sec. 311. 1874, ch. 233, sec. 9. 1880, ch. 100.

529. When any person shall be convicted of larceny in any court
of this State and such court shall be of the opinion that the interest of
public justice will be best promoted by sentencing the person so con-
victed to the House of Correction instead of the penitentiary, it shall
have power to sentence such person to be confined in the House of Cor-
rection instead of the penitentiary; provided, that the said term of con-
finement in the said House of Correction shall not be for a less period
than may now or hereafter be lawfully imposed for the offense of which
such person was so convicted, and that such person so sentenced to con-
finement in said House of Correction be not sentenced to be confined
therein for a longer period than three years.

Ibid. sec. 468. 1888, art. 27, sec. 312. 1880, ch. 100.

530. Any person, not insane, who is convicted of being a tramp,
shall be sentenced by the justice of the peace, or by the court, as the
case may be, before whom such offender is tried, to confinement in the
House of Correction for a period of not less than two months nor more .
than one year.

Ibid. sec. 469. 1888, art. 27, sec. 313. 1880, ch. 100. 1910, ch. 739 (p. 98).

531. When any person is convicted in any court of this State of any
misdemeanor, punishable under the laws of this State by imprisonment
in jail or in the penitentiary or by fine and imprisonment in jail or the
penitentiary, such court shall have power in its discretion to sentence
such person to be confined in the House of Correction, instead of the
penitentiary or jail; provided, that the term of confinement in the
said House of Correction shall not be for a less period than may now
or hereafter be lawfully imposed for the offense of which such person
was so convicted, and that such person so sentenced to confinement in