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receipts, disbursements, condition and progress of the said institutions,
together with a statement of the number of prisoners, their age, sex, color,
place of nativity and conviction, offense, term of confinement, escapes,
pardons and discharges, accompanied by such remarks and suggestions
as may appear necessary to the advancement of the interests of said
institutions. The said Board shall, at the time of making such annual
report to the Governor, transmit therewith a statement similar "to that
required to be made the Comptroller; and the statements and reports
required to be made in this and the preceding section shall be duly sworn
to by a member of the Board of Welfare, and the Governor shall com-
municate such statements and reports to the Legislature with such recom-
mendations as he may think expedient.

An. Code, sec. 653. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 653.

699. The warden of each of said institutions shall, within twenty days
after the first of October in each year, make to the said Board of Welfare
a statement and report of the affairs of their respective institutions setting
out the matters and facts required in the next preceding Section in so far
as said matters and facts may relate to the affairs of the institution of
which he is warden, and the statement and report required to be made in
this Section shall be duly sworn to by the warden and clerk of the institu-
tion concerning which said statement and report may be made.

An. Code, sec. 654. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 654. 1918, ch. 196, sec. 654.

700. When any person is convicted, before any Circuit Court of any
County, or the Criminal Court of Baltimore, of any crime, committed after
this 'Act takes effect, and punishable by any imprisonment whatsoever or
by fine and imprisonment (other than imprisonment in default of fine),
said Court may, in its discretion, sentence such person to imprisonment in
jail or in the Maryland House of Correction or in the Maryland Peniten-
tiary. The term of such imprisonment in any of said institutions shall be in
the discretion of the Court, unless a maximum term of imprisonment is
prescribed by law, in which event the imprisonment imposed shall not
exceed the maximum so fixed. Provided, however, that no sentence to the
Penitentiary or House of Correction shall be for less than three months;
except that any sentence under section 460 of Article 27 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title " Crimes and Punishments," sub-title " Rail-
roads—Obstructing " may be imposed in accordance with the provisions of
said section 460. Wherever the Board of Welfare shall determine that
prison discipline will be furthered by transferring from the Maryland
House of Correction to the Maryland Penitentiary or from the Maryland
Penitentiary to Maryland House of Correction any person sentenced to
either of said institutions for a crime committed after this Act takes effect
and shall issue its warrant to the Wardens of said Institution directing such
transfer then the said sentence of the Court shall operate to authorize such
transfer by virtue hereof. All persons now confined in the Maryland Peni-
tentiary may be transferred to the Maryland House of Correction by the
Board of Welfare upon the issuance of its warrant as above provided.