WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 9

	convicted of offences punishable as aforesaid ; and
	all persons who shall hereafter be convicted of any
	offence punishable as aforesaid, and confined in said
	jail under a sentence for a longer period than two
	calendar months, shall each have a deduction from
	their several terms of sentence of five days for each
	and every calendar month during which no charge
	of misconduct shall have been sustained against
	them, and they shall be discharged at the expiration
	of their respective terms of sentence, less the time
	so deducted, and a certificate of the warden of the	Warden to
	said jail of such deduction shall be entered on the	certify to de- ductions.
	warrant of commitment ; provided, that if during
	the term of imprisonment the prisoner shall commit
	any act of insubordination or other violation of dis-
	cipline the Board of Yisitors may, at their discre-
	tion, reduce or annul entirely such deductions.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take	When effec-
	effect from the date of its passage.	tive.
	Approved February 10, 1880.

	CHAPTER 5.
	AN ACT to accept from the United States a grant
	of the grounds, buildings and appurtenances known
	as the Pikesville Arsenal in Baltimore county in
	this State.
	WHEREAS by an act of the Congress of the United	Preamble.
	States making appropriations for the sundry civil
	expenses of the Government for the fiscal year end-
	ing June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty,
	approved March 3d, eighteen hundred and seventy-
	nine, the Secretary of War was authorized and di-
	rected to transfer to the State of Maryland the
	grounds, buildings and appurtenances known as the Pikesville Arsenal in Baltimore County in this State,
	to be used for militia purposes or other purposes as the necessities of the State may require.