324 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

122. All persons confined in Baltimore City Jail, under sen-
tence of the Criminal Court of Baltimore, for offences punish-
able by confinement therein, or committed by any Judge, Court,
Justice of the Peace, or other lawful authority having jurisdic-
tion to commit such person to said jail, either as a punishment
for the violation of any law or ordinance, or under or by virtue
of any law or ordinance, or for failure to pay any fine or costs
imposed upon such person by any such Judge, Court, Justice
of the Peace or other lawful authority, shall be kept by the Vis-
itors to the Jail at hard labor in some useful employment. The
said Visitors to the Jail shall frame such regulations as shall
be necessary to the industry, quiet and discipline of such per-
sons, and shall have them kept separate from persons in con-
finement awaiting trial, or for othei causes.

123. The said Visitors shall also require all vagrants con-
fined in said jail to work and labor about the premises.

124. The said Visitors may, with their consent, employ
other persons confined therein in such work and labor in and
about the premises as may be consistent with their safe-keep-
ing, and shall keep an account of the earnings of such persons,
and shall, upon their discharge, allow, them two-thirds of the
net proceeds thereof, to be ascertained by the Visitors.

125. The said Visitors shall keep regular books of accounts,
in which the whole expenses of the jail, whether for supplies,
salaries of officers, repairs or incidentals, shall be distinctly
stated.

126. The said Visitors shall appoint a fit person as Warden
of the Baltimore City Jail. They shall allow the said Warden
and his assistants and other employees and servants such com-
pensation as in their judgment is proper, not to exceed in the
aggregate the amount appropriated by ordinance. The said
Visitors shall at their will and pleasure remove the said Warden.

127. It shall be the duty of the Warden of the Baltimore
City Jail to take charge of the prison and prisoners therein, and
exercise, during his continuance in office, the same powers, and