EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1143

to sell or otherwise dispose. of, personal property, whenever
such purchase or acquisition, sale or disposal, may be appro*
priate to the needs of said institutions, or either of them, or to
the discharge of any of the official duties of said Board; the
said Board shall not borrow any money that may be needed for
the maintenance of said institutions, without the consent first
obtained of the Board of Public Works; and the said Board
shall not execute or make any mortgage or deed of trust, of
any property, real or personal, held by the said Board.

The State Board of Prison, Control shall have power to make
any and all contracts, appropriate to the needs of said institu-
tions, or either of them, or to the discharge of any of the official
duties of said Board.

630.. The said Board shall establish and maintain a system
of labor for prisoners to supersede the present system of con-
tract labor in the Maryland Penitentiary and the Maryland
House of Correction, as soon as it shall deem the same e^edient
and proper, and in case said Board does not establish such a
system of labor1 before the convening of the General Assembly
of 1918, then the Board shall report to such General Assembly
the result of the investigation of the subject, and any recom-
mendations which it may deem desirable to make thereon.
The said Board shall have power and authority to place pris-
oners at labor upon State works whenever 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 di-
rected to provide, whenever, in its judgment the same may be
expedient, such form of labor as will offer an opportunity to
prisoners to earn a surplus over the cost of their maintenance
to the State, and said Board shall further provide in its dis-
cretion for the payment of any surplus so earned, to the pris-
oner earning the same, or to such person or persons as he may
direct.

631. The said Board shall have the control and management
of the financial affairs of the said institutions, and no bill against
any of said institutions shall be paid until it has been approved
by said Board and certified by the Chairman. The said Board
shall make or direct to be made all purchases of supplies, in-
cluding fuel, food, clothing, hospital stores, bedding, furniture
and all other articles necessary for the use of said institutions
or any of them; provided, that no contract for yearly supplies
shall be made by them unless they shall have first given one
week's public notice in some one of the daily papers of Balti-