BALTIMORE CITY. 967

CONVICTS.

1880, ch. 4. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 568.

139. All persons who shall be convicted of any offense punishable by

confinement in said Baltimore City Jail, and confined in said jail under
a sentence for a longer period than two calendar months, shall each have

a deduction from their several terms of sentence of five days for each and
every calendar month during which no charge of misconduct shall have
been sustained against them, and they shall be discharged at the expiration
of their respective terms of sentence, less the time so deducted, and a

certificate of the Warden of said Jail of such deduction shall be entered
on the warrant of commitment; provided, that if, during the term of im-
prisonment, the prisoner shall commit any act of insubordination or other
violation of discipline, the Visitors to the Jail may, at their discretion,
reduce and annul entirely such deductions.

P. L. L. (1860), Art. 4, sec. 159. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 569.

140. All persons confined in said jail under the provisions of the pre-
ceding section shall be kept separate from such persons as are in confine-
ment for offenses other than those referred to in the preceding section, or
who may be awaiting trial.

VAGRANTS.

1862, ch. 8. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 570.

141. The Warden of the Baltimore City Jail shall prepare and send
to the Judge of the Criminal Court of Baltimore, on each and every Sat-
urday, a full and complete list of the names of all persons who are com-
mitted to his custody by the Justices of the Peace of said city, either as
vagrants or in default of security to keep the peace; and the Judge of
the said Court shall have full power to review the said commitments;
and upon examination of the various cases so reported to him by the
Warden of the Jail as aforesaid, he shall discharge or recommit the said
parties for a term not to exceed six months, as in his discretion may be
most conducive to the preservation of public peace and order. The Jus-
tices of the Peace of the City of Baltimore are prohibited from charging

costs in the cases above named, unless the parties are recommitted by order

of the Judge of said Court.

1880, ch. 51. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4. sec. 571.

142. When any person arrested in the City of Baltimore shall be held
in custody until such person can give security to keep the peace, or shall
be committed to jail or the House of Correction in default of such security
such person shall be chargeable with and shall pay all costs prescribed
by the laws of this State for such arrest, commitment, or giving security
to keep the peace, and in default of the payment thereof shall be com
miitted to jail until such cost and the costs of his release shall be paid, or