1180 ARTICLE 27.

An. Code, sec. 643. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 643.

689. The record herein provided for shall not be made public, except
as may be necessary in the identification or trial of persons accused of
crime. The record shall be accessible, however, to any officer of any Court
having criminal jurisdiction in this State, upon the order of the Judge of
said Court, or of the State's Attorney, which said order shall be attested
by the seal of the Court. Whenever, in the trial of any criminal case, the
fact of previous conviction of any person for any crime may be admissible,
any such record shall be admissible in evidence for the purpose of proving
the fact of such conviction and the crime for which such person was
convicted.

An. Code, sec. 644. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 644.

690. A copy of such record shall be furnished, upon request, to any
warden or other officer in charge of a prison for felons in any other State
of the United States; provided that such State has made reciprocal pro-
visions by law for furnishing records of its convicted criminals to the
authorities of other States.

An. Code, sec. 645. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 645.

691. The warden or other person, in charge of said institutions shall
furnish a copy of any such record kept in said institution, to any police
officer presenting an order for such copy signed by the superintendent, -or
other officer, in charge of police in the City or County where, such institu-
tion is located; also on or before the twenty-eighth day of each and every
month, the warden or other person in charge of any of said institutions,
shall furnish to the superintendent or other officer in charge of police, in
the City or County where said institution is located, the name of every
convict whose sentence expires the following month, together with the date
when sentence commenced, the County or City from which committed, the
crime for which committed and the exact date when said convict will be
discharged.

An. Code, sec. 646. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 646.

692. For the purpose of obtaining accurate descriptions of convicts,
the warden or other person in charge of any of said institutions, is hereby
authorized to adopt the Bertillon method of measurement and registration
or such other method as shall minutely describe convicts.

An. Code, sec. 647. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 647.

693. Whenever a person shall be convicted of crime and sentenced to
imprisonment in any of said institutions, the Clerk of the Court impos-
ing such sentence shall make and forward as soon as practicable, but not
later than thirty days from time of commitment, to the warden or other
person in charge of the institution to which the prisoner is sentenced, a
record containing a short copy of the docket entries, the name and address
of the judge presiding at the trial, the State's Attorney and Sheriff, and
the names and addresses of the jurors and the names of the witnesses