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CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 1181
sworn on the trial, together with a statement of any facts which the pre-
siding Judge may deem important or necessary for a full comprehension
of the case. In each case in which he shall perform the duties required by
this Section, the Clerk of the Court shall be entitled to one dollar as com-
pensation, which shall be taxed as a part of the costs of said case.
An. Code, see. 648. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 648.
694. Whenever the Board of Welfare may deem it necessary, they
shall have full power to summon the Board of Mental Hygiene to examine
and pass upon the mental condition of any convict in any of said institu-
tions, and if the convict so examined be adjudged insane by said Board,
or a majority thereof, and removal for treatment be deemed advisable,
said Board shall make complaint to the Court having criminal jurisdiction
in the County or City where the convict is imprisoned in any of said insti-
tutions, which shall have the power to order the removal of such insane con-
vict to some insane asylum within the State for treatment, and all expenses
incurred in the removal and support of said insane convict shall be borne
by the State.
See. secs. 315 and 711 and art. 59, sec. 46.
An. Code, sec. 649. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 649.
695. It shall be lawful for the Board of Welfare on such terms and
conditions as it may prescribe to receive into custody and put to labor any
person who may be sentenced to imprisonment in the Maryland Peni-
tentiary or in the Maryland House of Correction by the Courts of the
United States for the District of Maryland, and any person who may be
sentenced to imprisonment by the Courts of the United States for the Dis-
trict of Maryland shall, while in such institutions, be subject to the same
rules and discipline to which other convicts from the State Courts are
subjected.
An. Code, sec. 650. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 650.
696. The Criminal Court of Baltimore and the Circuit Court of Anne
Arundel County, shall, at each term of Court, charge the Grand Jury
attending thereupon to inquire into the conduct and management of each
of said institutions within the jurisdiction of said Court, and shall make
presentments of all offenses and omissions of any person in or relating to
said institution.
An. Code, sec. 651. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 651.
697. The said Board of Welfare shall, within thirty days after the
first October, in each year, transmit to the Comptroller of the State an ac-
curate, detailed statement of all its receipts and disbursements during the
year ending on the thirtieth of September preceding, including receipts
from the Treasurer.
An. Code, sec. 652. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 652.
698. The said Board shall make a report every year; on or before the
first day of January, to the Governor, showing the expenses, profits, losses,
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