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may prescribe, or he may, upon like notice, remit any
part of the time for which any person may be sentenced
to confinement in the penitentiary, on such like condi-
tions, without such remission operating as a full par-
don to any such person.

Approved and in force April 4,1870.

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ARTICLE XLIV.

Hospital - Maryland.

1870, c. 208, entitled an act providing for the sale of the property of the president
and visitors of the Maryland hospital in Baltimore city, and for the removal of
said hospital to Spring Grove in Baltimore county, and for the transfer of said
Spring Grove property to the said president and visitors, enacts :

SEC. 1. That the commissioners of the Maryland insane asylum at Spring Grove,
in Baltimore county, are hereby authorized and directed to transfer by deed all the
real estate and other property belonging to said trust, which may be in their posses-
sion, to the president and visitors of the Maryland hospital, to be held and used by
the said president and visitors of the Maryland hospital for the uses and purposes
of said president and visitors, under their present powers, obligations and organiza-
tion.

2. That the said president and visitors of the Maryland hospital are hereby
authorized to transfer their said hospital to the said Spring Grove property, and to
sell all and every part of the property now held by them in Baltimore city, or to
lease the same, or any part thereof, on ground rent, or to mortgage the same, or any
part thereof, and with the proceeds thereof first to satisfy all debts and obligations
which have been incurred for the construction of said asylum at Spring Grove, and
with the residue of said proceeds, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to com-
plete the said asylum.

Approved and in force April 4, 1870.