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1931, ch. 366, sec. 4.

675D. The provisions of Sections 706-710 of this Article having refer-
ence to pensions of employees of the Maryland House of Correction and
the Maryland Penitentiary shall be equally applicable to the employees
of the new institution.

1929, ch. 431.

681A. The Board of Welfare shall immediately upon the taking effect
of this Act, cause to be made a classification of the guards of the Mary-
land Penitentiary as may be for the best interest, conduct and manage-
ment of the institution in conformity with the provisions of this section
in respect to the duties to be performed and the salaries to b© paid accord-
ing to The tenure of service. The Assistant Warden shall he paid a salary
of twenty-seven hundred dollars ($2, 700. 00) annually. The day head
guard shall be paid a salary of twenty-two hundred dollars ($2, 200. 00)
annually. The guard that is regularly assigned as steward, shall be paid
an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars ($1, 800. 00). The first shift
night head guard shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars
($2, 000. 00) and the second shift night head guard shall receive an annual
salary of nineteen hundred dollars ($1, 900. 00). The guard assigned as
the Bertillion Officer, shall be paid an annual salary of eighteen hundred
dollars ($1, 800. 00). Each of the other guards who shall have been em-
ployed as such under two years, shall be paid an annual salary of fifteen
hundred dollars ($1, 500. 00). Each guard who shall have been employed
as such, over a period of two years to five years, shall be paid an annual
salary of sixteen hundred dollars ($1, 600. 00). Each guard who has been
employed as such for over a period of five years to ten years, shall be paid
an annual salary of seventeen hundred dollars ($1, 700. 00). Each guard
who has been employed as such for more than ten years shall be paid an
annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars ($1, 800. 00); provided, however,
that each guard who shall be assigned to duty in any of the shops or dormi-
tories for day service, shall receive in addition to the salaries herein set
forth, an additional compensation at the rate of two hundred dollars
($200. 00) annually, said salaries to be paid in equal semi-monthly in-
stallments. The Board shall likewise prepare and put into force and oper-
ation a schedule whereby each and every guard shall have at least thirty-six
days off each year including the period of vacation.

This section referred to construing sec. 410. State v. Anne Arundel Co., 166
Md. 227.

682.

For penalties in connection with escapes from the penitentiary, see sec. 138.

1929, ch. 258.

694A. If a representation is made to the officer in charge of any Penal
Institution that a woman confined in such Penal Institution is pregnant
and about to give birth to a child, a reasonable time before the anticipated
birth of such child, such officer shall make careful inquiry and, if the facts
so require, recommend to the Governor through the Board of Welfare the
exercise of Executive clemency. The Governor may, without notice, parole