564 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

performance of work, the person therein confined shall not only
forfeit all gained time in the month in which such delinquency-
occurs, but, according to the aggravated nature or frequency of
his or her offence, the board may deduct a portion or all or his or
her gained time.

1878, ch. 358, sec. 1.

319. The said board of managers are authorized and directed
to hire to the Maryland canal company, upon such terms as may
be agreed upon by and between the said board of managers and
said canal company, such able bodied male convicts, under sentence
to said house of correction as may from time to time be applied
for by said Maryland canal company; which said convicts, whilst
so hired out to said canal company, it shall be the duty of the said
managers of the house of correction to clothe, feed and guard in
all respects, so far as practicable as if they were engaged at work
within said house of correction; and in payment of the compen-
sation, which may be agreed on by and between said Maryland
canal company and the said managers of the house of correction,
for the hire of such convicts, the said canal company shall issue
to the said managers of the house of correction, and the said
managers shall accept, the stock of said Maryland canai company
at such rates as may be mutually agreed on.

Ibid. sec. 2

320. In order to enable the said managers of the house of
correction to discharge the duties imposed upon them by the
preceding section, they are vested with all powers necessary and
proper, in their discretion, to provide transportation for said
convicts to and from the place or places where they may be
engaged at work, and whilst at work, to furnish them at all times,
with sufficient and proper food and clothing.

House of the Good Shepherd.

1878, ch. 442. see. 1.

321. The house of the good shepherd of the city of Baltimore,
a body corporate, incorporated under the general laws of this
State relating to incorporations, is authorized to receive all such