562 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

1880, ch. 100.

312. Any person, not insane, who is convicted of being a
tramp, shall be sentenced by the justice of the peace, or by the
court, as the case may be, before whom such offender is tried, to
confinement in the Maryland house of correction for a period of
not less than two months nor more than one year.

Ibid.

313. When any person is convicted in any court of this State
of assault and battery, riot, or any other misdemeanor punishable
under the laws of this State by imprisonment in jail or by fine
and imprisonment in jail, such court shall have power to sen-
tence such person to be confined in the Maryland house of cor-
rection ; provided, that the said term of confinement in the said
Maryland house of correction shall not be for a less period than
two months.

1874, ch. 233, sec. 10. 1878, ch. 415. 1884, ch. 229. 1884, ch. 513.

314. 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 be-
fore a justice of the peace as herein mentioned, shall have a right
to appeal to the circuit court for the county, or, if in the city of
Baltimore, to the criminal court of said city, where the same shall
be tried as other crimes and misdemeanors. This section not to
apply to Frederick county.

Ibid. sec. 11. 1878, ch. 415. 1884, ch. 513.

315. Every person committed or sentenced to said house of
correction shall be kept at some useful employment, or hired ont
for such useful employment as may be best suited to his or her
age, and most profitable to the institution; and if the person shall
refuse to perform the work assigned to him or her, or be guilty
of acts of insubordination or misconduct, such person shall be