404 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 215

from the Federal Government or any Board, Bureau, Com-
mission, Department or other Agency thereof and prescrib-
ing the conditions under which said funds may be accepted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and hereby is added to Bagby's
Annotated Code of Public General Laws of Maryland (1924
Edition), title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "The De-
ment of Welfare", said new section to be known as Section
726A, to follow immediately after Section 726 of said Article,
and to read as follows:

726A. The Board of Welfare is hereby empowered in its
discretion to apply for and receive from the Federal Govern-
ment or any Board, Bureau, Commission, Department or other
Agency thereof any funds by way of grant or loan that may be
offered to be used in the establishment and/or maintenance of
the State penal and reformatory institutions under its juris-
diction on such terms as said Board shall approve, provided
there be no requirement to apply said funds or any part there-
of in contravention of any provision of Maryland law relating
to such institutions, and provided further that no such funds
shall be accepted by way of loan without the approval of the
Board of Public Works first having been obtained and that in
no event shall the credit of the State of Maryland or any
political sub-division thereof be involved or pledged to secure
the return of said loan and that the repayment thereof with
the interest, if any, shall only be made out of the accrued net
profits earned in the operation of the State Use System
established under Section 676 of this Article when and if any
such net profits shall accrue.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the imme-
diate preservation of the public health and safety, and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths
of all the members elected to each of the two houses of the
General Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of
its passage.

Approved May 18, 1937.

CHAPTER 215.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 683
of Article 27 of Bagby's Annotated Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland (1924 Edition), title, "Crimes and Pun-