CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1319

An. Code, 1924, sec. 671. 1917, ch. 15, sec. 629F.

753. All prisoners working upon said State farm under sections 748
to 757, shall be entitled to the same deductions or allowances for good
behavior, observance of discipline and rules and for diligent and faithful
labor, and shall be subject to the same forfeitures or punishments for the
lack of violation thereof, as such prisoners are now entitled to or are subject
to under the laws of this State; and in addition to such forfeitures or pun-
ishments any prisoner employed on said State farm who escapes or attempts
to escape shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be confined for an
additional term, in the discretion of the court, not exceeding one-half of the
entire term for which such prisoner had been sentenced prior to his or
her escape or attempted escape; or such prisoner shall in the discretion of
the Court, be subject to any penalties which may be by law provided for
prisoners escaping or attempting to escape from the institution to which
he or she had previously been committed.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 672. 1917, ch. 15, sec. 629G.

754. The Board of Correction is authorized from time to time to make
all purchases and to do all things which may be necessary and proper to
maintain a State farm as aforesaid, provided the same be established, and
shall have power to sell and dispose of all the pro'ducts of such farm at such
prices and on such terms as said Board may deem proper.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 673. 1917, ch. 15, sec. 629H.

755. All expenses and disbursements authorized by sections 748 to
757, shall be paid out of any moneys in the Treasury available therefor and
not otherwise appropriated, or out of any moneys appropriated for such pur-
poses ; in the latter event, such payments to be made, from time to time, on
the order of the Executive Committee of the Maryland Council of Defense,
by and with the sanction and approval of the Governor, such orders to be
directed to the Comptroller, who shall draw his warrant upon the Treasurer
for the amount thereof as in law provided.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 674. 1917, ch. 15, sec. 629-I.

756. All laws or parts of law which require any permits or impose
any restrictions or conditions of any kind upon the establishment or main-
tenance of farms for prison labor in any county or counties of this State,
are hereby repealed to the extent that the same apply or could be con-
strued to apply to the farm for prison labor authorized by sections 748 to
757.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 675. 1917, ch. 15, sec. 629J.

757. Neither the provisions of this Act nor of Chapter 556 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Maryland of 1916 shall apply to the Baltimore
City Jail.¹

¹ While the title of act of 1917, ch. 15, states that it is an act to add nine additional
sections to art. 27 of the Code, 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.