46 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

the judge of the criminal court of Baltimore and the several
judges of the circuit courts of the counties may, in lieu of the
minimum penalty so prescribed, impose a less penalty of the
same character; provided, however, that nothing herein con-
tained shall be construed as affecting any maximum penalty
fixed by law, or the punishment for any crime where the law
provides one and only one penalty.
Approved April 3, 1906.

1906, ch. 747.

461 B. On the order in writing of the board of county com-
missioners of any county it shall be the duty of the sheriff or
other officer having charge of such prisoners of that county to
send, under a competent guard, such number of able bodied
male prisoners to the county jail undergoing punishment under
sentence of a court or justice of the peace, as the county may
require, to work on any road in said county, or in any quarry,
pit or yard in preparing materials for use on the county roads;

the county commissioners are hereby required to reimburse the
sheriff or other officer out of the county fund for any expenses
he may be put to in conveying the said prisoners to and from
such road, quarry, pit or yard, or in properly guarding the said
prisoners while at work on said road or at said quarry, pit or
yard, under the direction of the county road representative or
representatives, and under such regulations as the sheriff or
other officer may deem necessary for their health and safe
custody. *

Approved April 5, 1906.

House of Refuge.

1906, ch. 28.

509 A. The name of the house of refuge, a corporation duly
incorporated by the General Assembly of Maryland by chapter
64 of the Acts of 1830 is hereby changed to the Maryland
school for boys, which is hereby fixed and established as the
corporate name of said institution.

Ibid. sec. 2.

509 B. All legacies now existing and all legacies that may
hereafter be given by persons dying after February 27, 1906,

*Named 461A in the title of the act.