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1892, ch. 273.

424 D. For the purpose of obtaining accurate descriptions of
criminal convicts, the warden or other officers in charge of the
several prisons in this State, are hereby authorized to adopt the
Bertillon method of measurement and registration or such other
method as shall minutely describe convicts.

Ibid.

424 E. A copy of the description and of the history and of the
photograph or photographs of any convict entered upon such
record or register, shall be furnished upon the request of any
warden or other officer in charge of a prison for felons in any
any other State of the United States to such warden or other
officer in charge, provided such State has made provision by law
for requiring the descriptions of its criminals convicted and for
furnishing such descriptions to the authorities of such other
States as have made provisions by law for the keeping of regis-
tries of descriptions and history of their convicts.

Ibid.

424 F. A copy of the description, history and photograph or
photographs of any convict entered upon such records, shall be
furnished to any officer of the bureau of police in the cities where
penitentiaries are or may be located upon the order of the super-
intendent of the police thereof; also on or before the twenty-
eighth of each and every month, the warden of the State peni-
tentiary or penitentiaries located in said city or cities, shall
furnish to the board of police commissioners of said city or cities
the name of said convicts whose sentences expire the following
month, together with the date when sentence commenced, the
county or city from which committed, the crime for which com-
mitted and the exact day when the convict will be discharged.

State Penitentiary—Removal of Insane Convicts.

1890, ch. 123.

433 A. Whenever the board of directors of the Maryland
penitentiary may deem it necessary, they shall have full power