ART. 74.] PLACES OF IMPRISONMENT AND REFORMATION.

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21. They shall, within thirty days after the end of each fiscal
year of the institution, transmit to the comptroller of the State an
accurate detailed statement of all its receipts and disbursements
during the year immediately preceding, including the receipts from
the treasury; and if there be any surplus in the receipts over the
expenditures, shall pay the same over to the treasurer of the State.

Id s 21
1852, c 151, s 4
Statement to
comptroller

22. They shall, at the time of making their annual report to the
executive, as required in the next succeeding section, transmit to
that officer a similar statement to that required to be made to the
comptroller; and the statements required to be made in this and

Id s 22
1852, c 151, s 5
Statement to
the executive

the preceding sections, shall be duly sworn to by the warden and
clerk of the penitentiary, before some justice of the peace of the
city of Baltimore.

Affidavit

23. They shall make a report every year, in the month of Decem-
ber, to the governor, showing the expenses, profits, loss, receipts,
disbursements, condition and progress of the said penitentiary, to-
gether with a statement of the number of prisoners, their age, sex,
color, place of nativity, and conviction, offence, term of confinement,
escapes, pardons, and discharges, accompanied by such remarks and
suggestions as may appear necessary to the advancement of the in-
terests of the establishment, and to possess the people of a general
knowledge of its concerns; and the governor shall communicate said
report to the legislature, with such recommendations as he may think
expedient

Id s 23
1837, c 420, s 15.
Report to the
governor

24. The Criminal Court of Baltimore shall, at each term, charge
the grand jury attending to inquire into the conduct and management
of the warden, assistant warden, and officers of the penitentiary, and
make presentments of all offences and omissions of the said warden,
assistant warden, and officers in relation to the said penitentiary;
and the said court shall, at the terms aforesaid, direct a number not
exceeding six of the said grand jurors, to visit and examine the said
penitentiary.

Id s 24
1837, c 320, a 13
Grand jury to
visit peniten-
tiary each term.

25. The directors may allow female convicts to bring with them
into the penitentiary their infant children; and the directors shall
have the power to bind such children as apprentices, as directed in
Article LIV of this Code relating to apprentices.

Id s 25
1845, c 83, s 3
Female convicts
may bring with
them their
infant children.
Children to be
bound out.

26. No person having any connection with the Maryland Peni-
tentiary shall receive from any convict therein, either by devise or
otherwise, any property, real, personal, or mixed; and any property
so devised or bequeathed, shall, notwithstanding such devise or be-
quest, be divided among the legal heirs of such convict, according
to the laws of this State.

Id s 26.
1837, c 320, s 28
No person con-
nected with
penitentiary to
receive property
from couvict

27. Any money, bank notes or chattel property employed, used,
or attempted to be used or introduced within or about the buildings,
yards, or inclosure of the said penitentiary for the purpose of rescu-
ing or procuring the release of any convict confined in the said
penitentiary, shall be forfeited thereby to the use of the State, and
the directors shall take possession thereof and appropriate the same,

Id a 27
1831, c 208, s 7 ,
1837, c 320, s 23
Property intro-
duced to aid
escape of con-
victs forfeited.