JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR,

1826.

to be approved of by the visitors and governors, conditioned for
the faithful performance of his duty as warden, and for the safe
keeping of all such persons as shall be committed by legal au-
thority to the jail of Baltimore county, which bond shall be
filed and recorded in the city court of Baltimore, and an office
copy thereof, under the seal of said court, shall be as good and
legal evidence in the several courts of the state, as the original
bond would be if produced and proved.

CHAP, 204

6. And be it enacted, That said visitors and governors shall
and may, at their will and pleasure, remove said warden from
office, and appoint another in his stead, and shall regulate the
price to be paid to said warden for the maintenance of the pri-
soners, so that it shall not exceed the present rate allowed the
sheriff of Baltimore county, and to be levied, collected and paid,
in the same manner as the expenses of the jail and of the main-
tenance of prisoners, are now levied, collected and paid.

May be removed

7. And be it enacted. That all commitments on civil process
which by law are now to be directed to the sheriff of Baltimore
county, or to the constables of Baltimore city or county, shall
hereafter be considered as complied with by said sheriff or con-
stables, so soon as he or they shall deliver the prisoner to the
said warden, and obtain his receipt therefor; and all commit-
ments on criminal process, shall be directed to the warden of the
jail of Baltimore county.

Prisoners to be
delivered to War-
den

8. And be it enacted, That said warden be obliged to con-
duct all prisoners in his custody, to and from the courts, when
the said courts shall direct him so to do.
9. And be it enacted, That said visitors and governors shall
allow such compensation to the said warden, and his guards, and
others necessarily employed in the care of the prisoners, as
they may think reasonable and proper, and they shall have au-
thority to make such repairs in and about the jail and premises
as they may think necessary, all which expenses shall be levied,
collected and paid, by the levy court of Baltimore county, as
the other county assessments.

To conduct them
to and from courts

Compensation

10. And be it enacted. That all such parts of any act of as-
sembly of this state, as shall be inconsistent with the provisions
of tbis act, be and the same are hereby repealed from and after
the time that this act shall go into operation.

Repeal

CHAP. CCXXV.
A Supplement to an Act, entitled, An Act incorporating the Baltimore Se-
cond Dispensary.

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the contributors to the Baltimore Second Dispensary, as
well as those who shall hereafter become contributors, shall be,
and are hereby created and made a corporation and body politic,
forever hereafter, by the name, style and title, of The President
and Directors of the Baltimore Second Dispensary, and by that
name shall have succession, and be capable in law of purchas-
ing, holding, selling, leasing and conveying, lands, tenements,
goods, chattels, and other property, real, personal ami mixed,
provided that the value of property held at any one time
shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars; and to sue and be sued,
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Passed Mar 12 1827

Contributors in-
corporated