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The Annotated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland, 1939
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CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS 1327

officer presenting an order for such copy signed by the superintendent, or
other officer, in charge of police in the City or County where such institu-
tion is located; also on or before the twenty-eighth day of each and every
month, the warden or other person in charge of any of said institutions,
shall furnish to the superintendent or other officer in charge of police, in
the City or County where said institution is located, the name of every
convict whose sentence expires the following month, together with the date
when sentence commenced, the County or City from which committed, the
crime for which committed and the exact date when said convict will be
discharged.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 692. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 646.

779. For the purpose of obtaining accurate descriptions of convicts,
the warden or other person in charge of any of said institutions, is hereby
authorized to adopt the Bertillon method of measurement and registration
or such other method as shall minutely describe convicts.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 693. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 647.

780. Whenever a person shall be convicted of crime and sentenced to
imprisonment in any of said institutions, the Clerk of the Court impos-
ing such sentence shall make and forward as soon as practicable, but not
later than thirty days from time of commitment, to the warden or other
person in charge of the institution to which the prisoner is sentenced, a
record containing a short copy of the docket entries, the name and address
of the judge presiding at the trial, the State's Attorney and Sheriff, and
the names and addresses of the jurors and the names of the witnesses
sworn on the trial, together with a statement of any facts which the pre-
siding Judge may deem important or necessary for a full comprehension
of the case. In each case in which he shall perform the duties required by
this Section, the Clerk of the Court shall be entitled to one dollar as com-
pensation, which shall be taxed as a part of the costs of said case.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 694. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 648.

781. Whenever the Board of Correction may deem it necessary, they
shall have full power to summon the Board of Mental Hygiene to examine
and pass upon the mental condition of any convict in any of said institu-
tions, and if the convict so examined be adjudged insane by said Board,
or a majority thereof, and removal for treatment be deemed advisable,
said Board shall make complaint to the Court having criminal jurisdiction
in the County or City where the convict is imprisoned in any of said insti-
tutions, which shall have the power to order the removal of such insane con-
vict to some insane asylum within the State for treatment, and all expenses
incurred in the removal and support of said insane convict shall be borne
by the State.
See sec. 798 and art. 59, sec. 48.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 694A. 1929, ch. 258.

782. 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 Correction the


 

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