964 ARTICLE 4.

Commission to examine and pass upon the mental condition of the con-
victs, and if the convict or convicts so examined be adjudged insane or
lunatic by said commission, or a majority thereof, and removal be deemed
advisable, said commission shall make a complaint to the judge of the
Criminal Court of the City of Baltimore, who shall have the power to
order the removal of such insane or lunatic convict or convicts to the Bay
View Asylum for treatment.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 576. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 543.

121. The said Visitors shall regulate and provide the diet of the pris-
oners, procure necessary bedding and clothing for their use; make such
repairs, alterations and improvements in and about the jail as they may
deem necessary, and provide medicine and attendance for such of the pris-
oners as are sick.

1884, ch. 368. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 544.

122. All persons confined in Baltimore City Jail, under sentence of
the Criminal Court of Baltimore, for offences punishable by confinement
therein, or committed by any Judge, Court, Justice of the Peace, or other
lawful authority having jurisdiction to commit such person to said jail,
either as a punishment for the violation of any law or ordinance, or under
or by virtue of any law or ordinance, or for failure to pay any fine or costs
imposed upon such person by any such Judge, Court, Justice of the peace
or other lawful authority, shall be kept by the Visitors to the Jail at
hard labor in some useful employment. The said Visitors to the Jail
shall frame such regulations as shall bo necessary to the industry, quiet
and discipline of such persons, and shall have them kept separate from
persons in confinement awaiting trial, or for other causes.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 578. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 545.

123. The said Visitors shall also require all vagrants confined in said
jail to work and labor about the premises.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 579. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 546.

124. The said Visitors may, with their consent, employ other persons
confined therein in such work and labor in and about the premises as may
be consistent with their safe-keeping, and shall keep an account of the
earnings of such persons, and shall, upon their discharge, allow them two-
thirds of the net proceeds thereof, to be ascertained by the Visitors.

Section 1 of the Act of 1906. ch. 71, reads as follows:

"Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Visitors of the
Jail in Baltimore City, be and they are hereby unconditionally authorized and
empowered to contract, upon such terms as to price or otherwise as they may
deem expedient or proper, with any person or corporation, in their discretion, for
the erection, at the Baltimore City Jail of a workshop for its uses; provided that
the cost of erecting said workshop shall be paid for by the hire to the contractor,
aa now authorized by law, and as fixed in amount or otherwise by the said visitors,
in their discretion, of inmates of said Jail."