ACT. 27. ] CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 87

CHAPTER 237.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 397
of Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws, title
"Crimes and Punishments, " sub-title "State Penitentiary. "

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 397 of Article 27 of the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws, title "Crimes and Punishments, " sub-title "State
Penitentiary, " be and the same is hereby repealed and re-
enacted with amendments so as to read as follows:

397. The warden shall receive a salary at the rate of five
thousand dollars per year and allowance of subsistence, fuel,
and occupancy as a dwelling of such parts of the front build-
ings as are not used for prison purposes, also all necessary out-
houses, yards and grounds not within the walls of the prison
proper, but shall receive no other compensation or perquisite.

Approved April 13, 1908.

CHAPTER 408.

AN ACT to amend Article 27 of the Code of Public General
Laws (1904), title "Crimes and Punishments, " sub-title "Jur-
isdiction, " by adding a new section thereto following Section
433, to be designated as Section 433A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws
(1904), title "Crimes and Punishments, " sub-title "Jurisdic-
tion, " is hereby amended by the addition of a new section, fol-
lowing Section 433, to be numbered Section 433A, and to read
as follows:

433A. Any person who may commit any crimes, felony or
misdemeanor, on or at the boundary or divisional line between
any of the counties in this State, or so near thereto or where
the exact location of such boundary is so uncertain as to render
it doubtful in which county the offense was committed, then
the county which first assumes jurisdiction by issuing process
for the arrest and prosecution of the offender shall have juris-
diction to charge, present, indict, try, convict and sentence;
and in such case it shall be only necessary for the State to
establish the venue alleged in the information, warrant or in-
dictment, by proving that the offense was at or on the boun-
dary of the county wherein the accused is being tried, or was
so near thereto or the location of the boundary is so uncertain
as to render it doubtful in which county the crime was com-
mitted.