ART. 27] STATE PENITENTIARY. 961

1888, art. 27, sec. 409. 1860, art. 73, sec. 21. 1852, ch. 151, sec. 4.

568. They shall, within thirty days after the end of each
fiscal year of the institution, transmit to the comptroller of the
State au 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 treasurer of the State.

Ibid. sec. 410. 1860, art. 73, sec. 22. 1852, ch. 151, sec. 5.

569. 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. 411. 1860, art. 73, sec. 23. 1837, ch 320, sec. 15.

570. 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 penitentiary, together with a statement of the number of
prisoners, their age, sex, color, place of nativity, and con-
viction, offense, term of confinement, escapes, pardons and
discharges, accompanied by such remarks and suggestions as
may appear necessary to the advancement of the interests of
the establishment, and to possess the people of a general
knowledge of its concerns; and the governor shall communi-
cate said report to the legislature with such recommendations as
he may think expedient.

Ibid. sec. 412. 1860, art. 73, sec. 24. 1837. ch. 320, sec. 13.

571. The criminal court of Baltimore 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.

Ibid. sec. 413. 1860, art. 73, sec. 25. 1845, ch. 83, sec. 3.

572. The directors may allow female convicts to bring with
them into the penitentiary their infant children; and the direc-