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Board may prescribe. The salaries, compensation and necessary expenses
of such Secretary and other employees shall be payable as hereafter
provided.1

An. Code, sec. 628. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 628.

664. The Board of Welfare shall have full power and control over the
Maryland Penitentiary and the Maryland House of Correction, and shall
have any and all incidental powers and authority appropriate and con-
venient to enable the said Board to fully discharge the powers of manage-
ment, control, supervision, visitation and inquisition conferred upon them
by this sub-title. The said Board shall have power to summon witnesses
before it and to administer oaths or affirmations to such witnesses whenever,
in the judgment of the said Board, it may be necessary for the effectual
discharge of their duties under this sub-title; and any person, failing to
appear before said Board at the time and place specified in answer to said
summons, or refusing to testify, shall be punishable by a fine of not less
than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars; false swearing on the part of
any such witness shall be deemed perjury, and shall be punished as such.

Acts of 1916, ch. 556, and of 1918, ch. 354, held valid and not to impair obligation
of contract for convict labor made prior to their adoption. Specific performance;
injunction. Nature and scope of police power. Cases reviewed. Jones Hollow Ware
Co. v. State Rds. Comn., 134 Md. 104.

An. Code, sec. 629. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 629.

665. The title to and possession of all the property, real and personal
appertaining to the Maryland Penitentiary and the Maryland House of
Correction, shall vest, in and be held by the Board of Welfare,2 as Trustees
for the State. The said Board shall have power to purchase or otherwise
acquire on behalf of the State, any real property, or interest in real prop-
erty, with the consent first obtained of the Board of Public Works, that may
be appropriate to the needs of said institutions, or either of them; and the
said Board shall have power to purchase or otherwise acquire, on behalf of
the State, to sell or otherwise dispose of, personal property, whenever such
purchase or acquisition, sale or disposal, may be appropriate to the needs of
said institutions, or either of them, or to the discharge of any of the official
duties of said Board; the said Board shall not borrow any money that may
be needed for the maintenance of said institutions, without the consent
first obtained of the Board of Public Works; and the said Board shall not
execute or make any mortgage dr deed of trust, of any property, real or
personal, held by the said Board.

The Board of Welfare shall have power to make any and all contracts,
appropriate to the needs of said institutions, or either of them, or to
the discharge of any of the official duties of said Board.

1 Secs. 626 and 627 of ch. 556 of 1916 transferred all the rights, powers, duties, func-
tions, liabilities, obligations, franchises, privileges and property enjoyed or held by the
directors of the Maryland Penitentiary or the board of managers of the House of Correc-
tion to the state board of prison control, which board superseded the directors of these
institutions. By ch. 29 of 1922, the department of welfare superseded the state board of
prison control. See sec. 661.

2 Formerly the State Board of Prison Control.