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626. From and after the appointment and qualification of
said Board of Prison Control, all rights, .powers, duties, func-
tions, liabilities, obligations, franchises, privileges, and prop-
erty, real and personal, in anywise had, enjoyed or held by or
vested in the Directors of the Maryland Penitentiary, or the
Board of Managers of the Maryland House of Correction,
shall be had, enjoyed and held by and vested in the said State
Board of Prison Control; and, from and after their appoint-
ment and qualification, the said State Board of Prison Control
shall be in all respects successors in right, title, interest and
liability to the Directors of the Maryland Penitentiary and
the Board of Managers of the Maryland House of Correction.

630. The said Board shall establish and maintain a sys-
tem of labor for prisoners to supersede the present system of
contract labor in the Maryland Penitentiary and the Maryland
House of Correction, as soon as it shall deem the same expe-
dient and proper; and the Board is hereby vested with all
power and authority necessary to that end and to put such
system of prison labor when established into operation and
effect. The said Board shall have power and authority to
place prisoners at labor upon State works wherever in the
judgment of said Board the same shall be expedient and proper,
upon such terms as to it shall seem wise. The said Board is
hereby directed to provide, whenever in its judgment the same
may be expedient, such form of labor as will offer an oppor-
tunity to prisoners to earn a surplus over the cost of their
maintenance to the State, and said Board shall further provide
in its discretion for the payment of any surplus so earned, to
the prisoner earning the same, or to such person or persons as
he may direct.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from and after June 1, 1918.

Approved April 10th, 1918.

CHAPTER 355.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section 609
of Article 17 of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-
land, title "Prince George's County/' sub-title "Upper Marl-
boro," as said section was amended by Chapter 36 of the
Acts of 1914, relating to street lights.