ART. 74.] PLACES OF IMPRISONMENT AND REFORMATION.

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103. A special tax of three-fourths of one cent be and the same
is hereby laid on each and every hundred dollars of the taxable
property of this State, to meet the interest and to create a sinking fund
for the redemption of the bonds or certificates of debt herein directed
to be issued, and the said tax shall be annually levied, collected
and paid over to the State treasurer, until the debt created by this
act shall have been paid, and a distinct and separate account shall
be kept thereof, and the proceeds thereof are hereby pledged to the
payment of the principal and interest of the said bonds or certifi-
cates of debt, and for that purpose so much thereof as may be
necessary, shall be applied to the payment of the interest upon the
bonds or certificates of debt aforesaid hereby created, and the
balance invested by the treasurer in such manner as the inerement
of the sinking fund of the State is authorized by law to be invested.

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Tax to meet
interest and to
create sinking
fund

104. The title to all the estates and property of the said House
of Correction shall vest in and be held by George William Brown,
George S. Brown, and Robert T. Baldwin, of the city of Baltimore,
as trustees for the State of Maryland.

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Trustees to hold
titlc.

10 S. For the purpose of meeting the expenses of said House
of Correction, after it shall be ready to receive inmates, the sum of
twenty-five thousand dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the treasurer of the State
is authorized and directed to pay the same to the board of managers
of the Maryland House of Correction, on the warrant of the comp-
troller, at such times and in such amounts as the said board of
managers may require.

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Appropriation
for expenses,
etc

106. Whenever any person may be convicted in any of the
courts of this State of any crime or misdemeanor, and who is liable
under existing law to be sentenced to imprisonment for a period
not less than two months and not exceeding three years, such court
may, in its discretion, sentence such person to be confined in said
House of Correction instead of other place of confinement.

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When court
may sentence
convict to House
of Correction

107. It shall be the duty of any justice of the peace of this
State to cause to be arrested and, on due proof, to commit any
vagrant, habitually disorderly person (not insane), to said House
of Correction for a period not less than two months nor more than
six months; and on a second or subsequent commitment of the
same person for any of the said causes, he or she, in the discretion
of the justice, may be sentenced to double the term of the first
commitment; provided, that any person that may be brought before

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Justices to com-
mit vagrants
and disorderly
persons to
House of Cor-
rection

a justice of the peace, as herein mentioned, shall have a right to
appeal to the Circuit Court of the county, or if in the city of Balti-
more, to the Criminal Court of said city, where the same shall be
tried as other crimes and misdemeanors.

Bight of appeal.

108. Every person committed or sentenced to the said House of
Correction shall be kept at some useful employment, or hired out for

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Person com-
mitted to be