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ART. 4.] JAIL. 457
P. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 600.
567. Nothing contained in the-last three preceding sections
shall apply to prisoners in the said jail who are under sentence of
death.
CONVICTS.
1880, ch. 4.
568. All persons confined in the jail of Baltimore city for
offences punished by confinement in said jail shall, after convic-
tion, be kept occupied at hard labor in some useful employment;
and the visitors of the said jail shall frame such regulations as
may be necessary to the industry, quiet and discipline of the per-
sons confined therein, who may have been convicted of offences
punishable as aforesaid; and all persons who shall hereafter be
convicted of any offence punishable as aforesaid, and confined in
said jail under a sentence for a longer period than two calendar
months, shall each have a deduction from their several terms of
sentence of five days for each and every calendar month during
which no charge of misconduct shall have been sustained against
them, and they shall be discharged at the expiration of their
respective terms of sentence, less the time so deducted, and a
certificate of the warden of the said jail of such deduction shall
be entered on the warrant of commitment; provided, that if,
during the term of imprisonment, the prisoner shall commit any
act of insubordination or other violation of discipline, the board
of visitors may, at their discretion, reduce or annul entirely such
deductions.
F. L. L., (1860,) art. 4, sec. 159.
569. All persons confined in said jail under the provisions of
the preceding section shall be kept separate from such persons as
are in confinement awaiting trial, or for other offences.
VAGRANTS.
1862, ch. 8.
570. The warden of the jail of the city of Baltimore shall
prepare and send to the judge of the criminal court of Baltimore,
on each and every Saturday, a full and complete list of the names
of all persons who are committed to his custody by the justices of
the peace of said city, either as vagrants or in default of security
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