1318 ARTICLE 27

nation in accordance with the provisions of Article 33A of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, and any amendments thereto, any lands or other prop-
erty, real or personal, or interest therein, together with any improvements
thereon, which the Board, with the approval of the Governor, may find
necessary or desirable for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a
State farm, or for any other purpose that may be appropriate to the needs
of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the said Board.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 667. 1917, ch. 15, sec. 629B.

749. If a State farm is.so established, then it shall be the duty of the
Board of Correction to cause to work upon such farm as many of the prison-
ers confined in the institutions under its jurisdiction as are physically able
to work thereon and as are available, for such work.

Acts of 1916, ch. 556, and of 1918, ch. 354, held valid and not to impair obligation of
a contract for convict labor made prior to their adoption. Specific performance; in-
junction. Nature and scope of police power. Cases reviewed. Jones Hollow Ware Co.
v. State Rds. Comn., 134 Md. 104.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 668. 1917, ch. 15, sec. 629C.

750. The Governor of the State may from time to time, at the request of
the authorities having control and jurisdiction over the jail of any other
town or city or of any county in this State, assign to work upon said farm as
many of the prisoners confined in the jails under their respective jurisdic-
tion as are physically able to work on said farm and as are available for such
work.

As to the Baltimore City jail, see see. 757.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 669. 1917, ch. 15, sec. 629D.

751. The Board of Correction shall provide for the guarding, trans-
portation, lodging, feeding, clothing and medical and other care and atten-
tion of all such prisoners, or make such arrangement therefor as it may
deem adequate and proper; and may make such rules and regulations as
may be necessary or proper to carry but the provisions of .sections 748
to 757.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 670. 1917, ch. 15, sec. 629E.

752. The Board of Correction may set aside for each prisoner working
upon said State farm, such sum as it may deem proper, not exceeding, how-
ever, the sum of fifty cents per day for each and every day that such prisoner
is. so employed; and the Board may hold such payments to the credit of the
prisoner for whose account the same are made, and pay the same to him or
her upon his or her release or discharge; or the said Board may, in its dis-
cretion, from time to time, pay such portion of said payments as it may
deem proper to any person or persons who are dependent upon said prisoner,
if found to be in need by the said Board, and hold the balance of such
payments to the credit of the prisoner. The Board may make such rules and
regulations with respect to the disbursement of said payments as may be
necessary or proper.

¹ While the title of act of 1917; ch. 15, states that it is an act to add nine additional
sections to art. 27, it also states that such additional sections are to be known as secs.
629A to 629J, inclusive. The enacting clause of ch. 15, however, repeats the reference
to nine additional sections, but omits any reference to sec. 629J.