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ishments", sub-title, "The Department of Welfare", so as to
provide that a prisoner in a State Penal Institution may
receive diminution of his period of confinement for excep-
tional industry, skill and application to his duties in the
Industrial, Agricultural or Administrative tasks assigned
to him therein in addition to the diminution thereof now
granted to him for good behavior during the period of his
confinement.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 683 of Article 27 of Bagby's Annotated
Code of Maryland (1924 Edition), title, "Crimes and Punish-
ments", sub-title, "The Department of Welfare" be and the
same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amendments so
as to read as follows:

683. Each prisoner in any of said institutions shall be en-
titled to a diminution of the period of his confinement under
the following rules and regulations:

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

(2) For each calendar month commencing on the first day
of the sixth month next after his arrival at the institution,
during which under such regulations as shall be established by
the Board of Welfare he shall be deemed to have manifested
exceptional industry, application and skill in the performance
of industrial, agricultural or administrative tasks assigned to
him, he may, in the discretion of the Board of Welfare, be al-
lowed an additional deduction of five more days from each
month of the period of his commitment or sentence.

(3) For each and every violation of the rules and discipline
of the institution, or want of fidelity or care in the perform-
ance 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 his of-
fense, the Board may deduct a portion of all his gained time
for good conduct under sub-section (1) of this section but
the deduction allowed and earned under sub-section (2) hereof
shall not be affected thereby.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1st, 1937.

Approved May 18, 1937.