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exercise of Executive clemency. The Governor may, without notice, parole
such convict, commute the sentence or suspend its execution for a definite
period or from time to time as he deems proper. If the sentence is sus-
pended, the officer in charge of such institution, a reasonable time before
the anticipated birth of such child, shall cause such woman to be removed
from such institution and provided with comfortable accommodations,
maintenance and medical care elsewhere under such supervision and safe-
guard to prevent her escape from custody, as he may determine, and sub-
ject to her return to such institution as soon after the birth of such child
as the state of her health will permit. The expenses of such accommoda-
tion, maintenance and medical care shall be paid by said woman or her
relatives or friends, or from any fund that would be available for the hos-
pital expenses of such inmate within the institution, or if not otherwise
available, shall be a charge upon the county, city or town from which such
inmate was committed to such institution, and collectible by such officer in
charge of such institution. A child so born may be returned with its
mother to the institution in which the mother is confined, if the Board of
Correction, in its judgment, deems it will be for the best interest of the said
child; but if the Board of Correction, in its judgment, decides that it will
not be for the best interest of the child to be returned to the institution with
its mother, then, upon proof being furnished by the father or other relatives
of their ability properly to care for and maintain such child, the said Board
shall order that the child be given into the care and custody of the father
or other relative, who shall thereafter care for and maintain the same at
his or her own expense until the release of the mother of such child or
until such child shall have been duly adopted as provided by law. If it
shall appear that the father or other relative is unable properly to care for
and maintain such child, the Board of Correction shall place the child in the
care of the officer exercising power of a Superintendent of the Poor of the
county from which said inmate was committed as a proper charge upon
such county, or in the care of any charitable organization willing to provide
for the child; or in case the mother of the child was a resident of Baltimore
City, then in that event, the child shall be placed in the care of the Henry
Watson Children's Aid Society or the Saint Vincent's Infant Asylum.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 695. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 649.

783. It shall be lawful for the Board of Correction on such terms and
conditions as it may prescribe to receive into custody and put to labor any
person who may be sentenced to imprisonment in the Maryland Peni-
tentiary or in the Maryland House of Correction by the Courts of the
United States for the District of Maryland, and any person who may be
sentenced to imprisonment by the Courts of the United States for the Dis-
trict of Maryland shall, while in such institutions, be subject to the same
rules and discipline to which other convicts from the State Courts are
subjected.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 696. 1916, ch. 556, sec. 650.

784. The Criminal Court of Baltimore and the Circuit Court of Anne
Arundel County, shall, at each term of Court, charge the Grand Jury
attending thereupon to inquire into the conduct and management of each
of said institutions within the jurisdiction of said Court, and shall make
presentments of all offenses and omissions of any person in or relating to
said institution.....

This section referred to in passing upon functions of grand jury; criticism of public
officials; power exceeded. In re Report of Grand Jury, 152 Md. 623.