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of Welfare and every employee of said Board and every Warden, and other
employee connected with any of said institutions, shall make report to the
said Board of all such offenses coming to his knowledge, and a failure or
neglect to do so shall be a breach of duty and punishable under this Section.
Any person violating any provision of this Section shall be punishable by
a fine of not more than $500.

An. Code, sec. 639. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 639.

685. No member of said Board of Welfare, or any employee of said
Board, or any Warden, or other employee connected with any of said insti-
tutions, shall accept any reward or gift, or any promises of reward or gift,
from any convict in any of said institutions, 'or from any one on his behalf,
or shall receive any devise or bequest, or any promise of devise or bequest,
from any such convict, or from any person on his behalf, or shall enter into
any contract with any such convict, or with any person on his behalf. All
such gifts, rewards, bequests, devises, promises and contracts shall be void;
and any person, violating any provision of this Section, shall be punishable
by a fine of not more than $500.

An. Code, sec. 640. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 640.

686. The Board of Welfare shall prescribe the character of punish-
ments for violation of prison discipline in the said institutions, which shall
be administered by the direction of the Warden of each of said institutions,
who shall preserve an accurate record of the character of offense committed
and the nature and amount of punishment inflicted. In the Maryland Peni-
tentiary and in the Maryland House of Correction, no corporal punish-
ment or whipping shall be inflicted except in the presence of a physician
in attendance at the said institution.

An. Code, sec. 641. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 641.

687. In each of said institutions, the Warden or other person in charge
shall record or cause to be recorded a description of every person committed
to such institution under sentence of felony, and also the criminal history of
every such person so committed, as full and complete as may be obtainable,
and shall attach thereto as part of said record a photograph or photographs
of such person; and, whenever the said Board of Welfare shall direct, a
like record shall be kept of any person committed for misdemeanor to any
of said institutions.

An. Code, sec. 642. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 642.

688. For the purposes mentioned in the preceding Section, the State's
Attorney of any County or City, in which any criminal has been convicted
and sentenced to one of said institutions, shall forward to the Warden or
other person in charge of said institution at the request of such Warden or
other person, and upon blanks furnished by him, a criminal history of
such criminal as fully as the same is known or can be ascertained by such
State's Attorney.