1174 ARTICLE 27.

An. Code, sec. 629A- 1917, ch. 15, sec. 629A.

666. The Board of Welfare is authorized and empowered to acquire
by gift, devise, bequest, purchase, lease or in any other way, or by condem-
nation in accordance with the provisions of Article 33A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, and any amendments thereto, any lands or other prop-
erty, real or personal, or interest therein, together with any improvements
thereon, which the Board, with the approval of the Governor, may find
necessary or desirahle for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a
State farm, or for any other purpose that may be appropriate to the needs
of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the said Board.1

An. Code, sec. 629B. 1917, ch. 15, sec. 629B.

667. If a State farm is so established, then it shall be the duty of the
Board of Welfare to cause to work upon such farm as many of the prisoners
confined in the institutions under its jurisdiction as are physically able to
work thereon and as are available for such work.

Acts of 1916, ch. 556, and of 1918, ch. 354, held valid and not to impair obligation
of a 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 Eds. Comn., 134 Md. 104.

An. Code, sec. 629C. 1917, ch. 15, sec. 629C.

668. The Governor of the State may from time to time, at the request of
the authorities having control and jurisdiction over the jail of any other
town or city or of any county in this State, assign to work upon said farm as
many of the prisoners confined in the jails under their respective jurisdic-
tion as are physically able to work on said farm and as are available for sricb
work.

As to the Baltimore city jail, see sec. 675.

An. Code, sec. 629D. 1917, ch. 15, sec. 629D.

669. The Board of Welfare shall provide for the guarding, transporta-
tion, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical and other care and attention
of all such prisoners, or make such arrangement therefor as it may deem
adequate and proper; and may make such rules and regulations as may
be necessary or proper to carry out the provisions of sections 666 to 675.

An. Code, sec. 629E. 1917, ch. 15, sec. 629E.

670. The Board of Welfare may set aside for each prisoner working
upon said State farm, such sum as it may deem proper, not exceeding, how-
ever, the sum of fifty cents per day for each and every day that such prisoner
is so employed; and the Board may hold such payments to the credit of the
prisoner for whose account the same are made, and pay the same to him or
her upon his or her release or discharge; or the said Board may, in its dis-
cretion, from time to time, pay such portion of said payments as it may

1 While the title of act of 1917, ch. 15, states that it is an act to add nine additional
sections to art. 27, it also states that such additional sections are to be known as secs.
629A to 629J, inclusive. The enacting clause of ch. 15, however, repeats the reference
to nine additional sections, but omits any reference to sec. 629J.