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collected and paid over to the State treasurer, until the debt
created by said act shall have been paid; and a distinct and sepa-
rate account shall be kept thereof; and the proceeds thereof are
pledged to the payment of the principal and interest of the
said bonds or certificates 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, and the
balance invested by the treasurer in such manner as the increment
of the sinking fund of the State is authorized by law to be in-
vested.

1874, ch. 233, sec. 7.

309. 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 Balti-
more, and their successors, as trustees for the State of Maryland.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1878, ch. 415. 1884, ch. 513.

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

Ibid. sec. 9. 1880, ch. 100.

311. When any person shall be convicted of larceny in any
court of this State, and such court shall be of the opinion that the
interests of public justice will be best promoted by sentencing the
person so convicted to the Maryland house of correction instead
of the penitentiary, it shall have power to sentence such person to
be confined in the Maryland house of correction instead of the
Maryland penitentiary; provided, that the said term of confine-
ment in the said Maryland house of correction shall not be for a
less period than may now, or hereafter, be lawfully imposed for
the offence of which such person was so convicted, and that such
person so sentenced to confinement in said Maryland house of cor-
rection be not sentenced to be confined therein for a longer period
than three years.