CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 1183

It is expressly provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be
construed to add to, alter or change the class of crimes, as they existed before
this Act takes effect, with respect to the right of challenge or with respect
to the fees in criminal cases, or to make any crime infamous, by reason of
any sentence to the Maryland Penitentiary, or transfer thereto, which
would not have been an infamous crime before this Act takes effect; and it
is further provided that nothing in this Section shall be construed to prevent
any Court from committing any minor to any industrial school or juvenile
reformatory to which minors may now be committed under existing law.

Sentence to Baltimore city jail for two years upheld under this section. Grove v.
Taylor, 143 Md. 199.

An. Code, sec. 655. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 655.

701. When any person is convicted before any Justice of the Peace
having criminal jurisdiction, of any misdemeanor, committed after October
1, 1916, and punishable by imprisonment in jail, or by fine and imprison-
ment in jail (other than imprisonment in default of fine), the said Justice
of the Peace shall have power in his discretion to sentence such person to
be confined in the Maryland House of Correction; and all sentences of
imprisonment for over six months imposed by such Justice upon such
person, shall be to the Maryland House of Correction. All sentences to the
Maryland House of Correction, under this Section may be for a term of
imprisonment up to but not exceeding the maximum term in jail which
the Justice might have imposed for the offense committed had this Section
not been enacted; provided, however, that in no case whatsoever shall any
Justice sentence any person to imprisonment in the Maryland House of
Correction for more than three years nor 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 " Railroads—Ob-
structing," may be imposed in accordance with the provisions of said
section 460. And it is further provided that nothing in this Section shall
be construed to prevent any Justice having jurisdiction from committing
any minor to any industrial school or juvenile reformatory to which minors
may now be committed under existing law.

An. Code, sec. 656. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 656.

702. The salary of the Director and Chairman of said Board of Welfare
and the salaries or compensation of every employee of said Board and
every Warden, and other employees connected with the Maryland Peni-
tentiary, the Maryland House of Correction shall be paid by the said Board
out of any funds in the hands of said Board, or by the State Treasurer upon
warrant of the Comptroller of the Treasury, out of the funds appropriated
therefor.

Every member of said Board of Welfare, and every employee of said
Board, and every Warden, and other employees connected with any of said
institutions, shall have reimbursed to him all actual and necessary traveling
and other expenses which the said Board may certify to have been incurred
by him in the discharge of his official duties; and the said reimbursements