1176 ARTICLE 27.

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

675. Neither the provisions of this Act nor. of Chapter 556 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1916 shall apply to the Baltimore
City Jail.1

An. Code, sec. 630. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 630. 1918, ch. 354, sec. 630.

676. The said Board shall establish and maintain a system of labor
for prisoners to supersede the present system of contract labor in the
Maryland Penitentiary and the Maryland House of Correction, as soon
as it shall deem the same expedient and proper; and the Board is hereby
vested with all power and authority necessary to that end and to put such
system of prison labor when established into operation and effect. The said
Board shall have power and authority to place prisoners at labor upon
State works wherever in the judgment of said Board the same shall be
expedient and proper, upon such terms as to it shall seem wise. The said
Board is hereby directed to provide, whenever in its judgment the same
may be expedient, such form of labor as will offer an opportunity to pris-
oners to earn a surplus over the cost of their maintenance to the State, and
said Board shall further provide in its discretion for the payment of any
surplus so earned, to the prisoner earning the same, or to such perlon or
persons as he may direct.

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 Rds. Comn., 134 Md. 104.

See sec. 712, et seq. and art. 91, sec. 39.

An. Code, sec. 631. 1916, ch, 556, sec. 631.

677. The said Board shall have the control and management of the
financial affairs of the said institutions, and no bill against any of said insti-
tutions shall be paid until it has been approved by said Board and certified
by the Chairman. The said Board shall make or direct to be made all pur-
chases of supplies, including fuel, food, clothing, hospital stores, bedding,
furniture and all other articles necessary for the use of said institutions or
any of them; provided, that no contract for yearly supplies shall be made by
them unless they shall have first given one week's public notice in some
one of the daily papers of Baltimore City, inviting proposals and setting
forth, the quantity and quality of supplies required, and the time within
which proposals for such supplies shall be made, and they shall accept such
proposals as in their opinion, under all the circumstances, may be most
advantageous to the institutions under their control.

See. 556, Code of 1904, referred to in deciding that ejectment might be brought
against warden of penitentiary, he being in actual personal occupancy of the premises.
Weyler v. Gibson, 110 Md. 655 (decided prior to act, 1914, ch. 133).

1 While the title of act of 1917, ch. 15, states that it is an act to add nine additional
sections to art. 27 of the Code, 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.