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said House of Correction be not sentenced, to be confined therein for a
longer period than three years.
See notes to section 528.

1910, ch. 730 (p. 98).

532. When any person is convicted before any Justice of the Peace
of Maryland, having criminal jurisdiction of any misdemeanor punish-
able under the laws of this State by imprisonment in jail, or by fine
and imprisonment in jail, the said Justice of the Peace shall have power
in his discretion to sentence such persons to be confined in the House of
Correction instead of jail, provided that the said term of confinement
in the said House of Correction shall not be for a less period than two
months, nor for a greater period than three years.

Nothing in this and the preceding section shall apply to or affect the
prosecution of any offense which may have been committed prior to
April 13, 1910, or the punishment provided for such offense.

1904, art. 27, sec. 470. 1888, art. 27, sec. 314. 1874. ch. 233, sec. 10. 1878, ch. 415.
1884, ch. 229. 1884, ch. 513.

533. It shall be the duty of any justice of the peace of this State
to cause to be arrested and, on due proof, to commit any vagrant, habit-
ually disorderly person, not insane, to said House of Correction for a
period not less than two months nor more than six months; and on a
second or subsequent commitment of the same person for any of the said
causes, he or she, in the discretion of the justice, may be sentenced to
double the term of the first commitment; provided, that any person
that may be brought before a justice of the peace as herein mentioned
shall have a right to appeal to the circuit court for the county, or, if
in the city of Baltimore, to the criminal court of said city, where the
same shall be tried as other crimes and misdemeanors. This section not
to apply to Frederick county.

The act of 1878, chapter 415, section 10, is constitutional. State v. Glenn,
54 Md. 599; Baum v. Warden, 110 Md. 583.

Ibid. sec. 471. 1888, art. 27, sec. 315. 1874. ch. 233, sec. 11. 1878, ch. 415.

1884, ch. 513.

534. Every person committed or sentenced to said House of Correc-
tion shall be kept at some useful employment, or hired out for such
useful employment as may be best suited to his or her age, and most
profitable to the institution; and if the person shall refuse to perform
the work assigned to him or her, or be guilty of acts of insubordination
or misconduct, such person shall be punished in such manner as the
regulations prescribed by said board of managers shall provide; and a
record shall be kept of every punishment inflicted and the cause thereof,
in a book which shall be kept at the institution, and shall always be laid
before the said board of managers at its meetings; and it shall be the
duty of the board to exercise a careful supervision and control over the
punishments inflicted.