CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1321

or in part by convicts or prisoners in the State of Maryland or elsewhere,
(except convicts or prisoners on parole or probation), shall be sold in. this
State except by or for the State of Maryland, to its political subdivisions or
a State-aided, owned, controlled or managed public or quasi-public insti-
tution or agency and in no event either directly or indirectly to the con-
suming public, except that perishable vegetables may be sold to canneries as
authorized by Article 88A, Sec. 53.

(2) Should any person, firm, association or corporation, directly or
indirectly violate the provisions of this section the person or persons know-
ingly participating in such violation shall be punished by a fine of not
more than $500.00 or imprisonment of not more than one year, or both,
in the discretion of the Court.

(3) The Board of Correction is hereby authorized and empowered in
its discretion to equip as funds become available the penal and reformatory
institutions of the State of Maryland under its jurisdiction, hereinafter
called "Producing Institutions", with such plants, machinery and neces-
saries as will permit them adequately to supply all goods, wares, merchan-
dise and produce required to be purchased by the needs of the State, its
political sub-divisions, and by State-aided, owned, controlled or managed
public or quasi-public institutions and agencies, hereinafter called "Con-
suming Institutions", as may be feasible, except that no additional equip-
ment for industries now in operation in the producing institutions other
than necessary replacements shall be installed in said producing institutions
for manufacture of any products which said producing institutions are
equipped to produce on May 18, 1937; all of said Consuming Institutions
are hereby required to purchase their requirements of the same from the
Board of Correction exclusively except products such as the Board of
Correction shall in writing notify the State Purchasing Bureau cannot be
furnished by the penal or reformatory institutions of the State, or such as
their perishable nature may render impracticable for such institutions to
furnish; provided, however, that this requirement to purchase their said
needs of the Board of Correction shall not apply to any State-aided, man-
aged or controlled public or semi-public institution which does not receive
at least fifty per cent of the funds for its upkeep (exclusive of receipts
from its patrons) from the State of Maryland and/or some political sub-
division or sub-divisions thereof. It shall be the duty of such Board of
Correction in the exercise of the powers hereinbefore contained to di-
versify its industries in such a manner as to not work a hardship on any one
particular free industry.

(4) The Board of Correction is hereby authorized and empowered to
publish and distribute to the Department of Budget and Procurement¹
a schedule of prices for the purchase of all such products, provided that
such prices shall not exceed the wholesale market (or equivalent) rates
for similar products manufactured, produced, or mined elsewhere in the
State of Maryland. The Board of Correction is also authorized and em-
powered to consult and cooperate with the Department of Budget and Pro-
curement and the representatives of such consuming institutions, in estab-
lishing certain standards of production, and shall with such Department
and representatives determine the style, design and quality of the products
of the producing institutions. Any difference of opinion on prices, stand-
ards, styles, design, and quality of such product or products which may
arise between the Board and a representative of such Department or of any

¹ Formerly State Purchasing Bureau. See Art. 15A.