1148 ARTICLE 27.

An. Code, sec. 520. 1904, sec. 461. 1894, ch. 402, sec. 304A. 1902, ch. 494.

577. The courts may suspend sentence generally or for a definite time,
and may make such orders and impose such terms as to costs, recognizance
for appearance, or matters relating to the residence or conduct of the con-
victs as may be deemed proper; and if the convict is a minor, the courts
may also make such orders as to his detention in any care or custody as
may be deemed proper.

Suspension of sentence, infant traversers being paroled in the custody of their
fathers, upheld under this section; appeal dismissed. Symington III. v. State, 133
Md. 453. Cf. Pritchett v. State, 140 Md. 315.
See art. 3, sec. 60, Md. Constitution.

An. Code, sec. 521. 1906, ch. 536.

578. In all cases where the law prescribing a punishment for crime
fixes a maximum and a minimum penalty therefor, the judge of the Crimi-
nal Court of Baltimore and the several judges of the Circuit Courts of the
counties may, in lieu of the minimum penalty so prescribed, impose a less
penalty of the same character; provided, however, that nothing herein
contained shall be construed as affecting any maximum penalty fixed by
law, or the punishment for any crime where the law provides one and only
one penalty.

An. Code, sec. 522. 1906, ch. 747.

579. 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 punish-
ment 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 Commis-
sioners are hereby required to reimburse 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 guard-
ing 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 representa-
tives, and under such regulations as the sheriff or other officer may deem
necessary for their health and safe custody.
See sec. 712, et seq.

III.

PLACES OF REFORMATION AND PUNISHMENT.
House of the Good Shepherd.

An. Code, sec. 540. 1904, sec. 477. 1888, sec. 321. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 1.

580. The House of the Good Shepherd of the city of Baltimore, a body
corporate incorporated under the general laws of this State relating to
incorporations, is authorized to receive all such white females under the age
of eighteen years as may be committed to the corporation by their parents
or guardians and the same to retain within the refuge conducted by said