ART. 27] HOUSE OF CORRECTION. 935

1888, art. 27, sec. 318. 1874, ch. 233. sec. 14.

474. In order to further promote good behavior, and tend
to reformation, the said board of managers shall provide in
their rules and regulations for a correct daily record of the
conduct of each of the persons confined in said house of cor-
rection and their fidelity and diligence in the performance of
their work; and each prisoner shall be entitled to a diminution
of the period of his or her confinement under the following
rules and regulations:

First. For each calendar month, commencing on the first day
of the month next after his or her arrival at the institution,
during which he or she shall not be guilty of a violation of the
discipline or any of the rules thereof, and shall labor with
diligence and fidelity, he or she shall be allowed a deduction of
five days from each month of the period of his or her commit-
ment or sentence.

Second. For each and every violation of the rules and dis-
cipline of the institution or want of fidelity or care in the
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
of his or her offense, the board may deduct a portion or all of
his or her gained time.

Ibid, sec 319. 1878, ch. 358, sec. 1.

475. 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 mana-
gers 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 cor-
rection to clothe, feed and guard in all respects, so far as prac-
ticable, as if they were engaged at work within said house of
correction; and in payment of the compensation 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 man-
agers shall accept the stock of said Maryland canal company
at such rates as may be mutually agreed on.