590 CRIMES AXD PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

P. G. L , (1860,) art 33, sec 21. 1852, ch. 151, sec. 4.

409. 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, they shall pay the same over to the treas-
urer of the State.

Ibid. sec. 22. 1852, ch. 151, sec. 5.

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

Ibid. sec. 23. 1837, ch. 320, sec. 15.

411. They shall make a report every year, in the month of
December, to the governor, showing the expenses, profits, losses,
receipts, disbursements, condition and progress of the said peni-
tentiary, together 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 ad-
vancement of the interests 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 recom-
mendations as he may think expedient.

Ibid sec. 24. 1837, ch. 320, sec. 13.

412. The criminal court of Baitimore 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 offenses and omissions
of the said warden, assistant warden, and officers, in and relating
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.