ART. 27] STATE PENITENTIARY—CONVICTS. 203

State Penitentiary—Convicts.

1892, ch. 273.

424 A. In every prison in this State, to which persons con-
victed of any felonious offense are or may be committed by the
courts of this State, the warden or other officer in charge shall
record or cause to be recorded in a record kept for that purpose,
a description of every person committed to such prison under a
sentence for a felony, and also the criminal history of every such
person so committed, as far as the same may appear from the
records of the courts of this State or of any other State or other-
wise, as full and complete as may be obtainable, and shall attach
thereto a photograph or photographs of such person so recorded.

Ibid.

424B. For the purpose mentioned in the next preceding sec-
tion, the State's attorney of the county or city in which a crimi-
nal has been convicted and sentenced to prison for a felony, shall
forward to the warden or other officer in charge at the request of
such warden or other officer, and upon blanks furnished by him,
a criminal history of such criminal as fully as is known, or can
be ascertained by such State's attorney.

Ibid.

424 v. The register herein provided for shall not be made
public, except as may be necessary in the identification of per-
sons accused of crime and in the trial of offenses committed after
having been imprisoned for a prior offense. The record shall be
accessible, however, to any officer of any court having criminal
jurisdiction in this State, upon the order of the judge of the
court, or of the State's attorney of the county or city in which
the person is being held for a crime, which said order shall be
attested 'by the seal of the court, and any such record may be
given in evidence upon any trial of any offender indicted under
the habitual criminal law of this State for the purpose of prov-
ing a former conviction or convictions, and the offense or offenses
for which convicted.