1150 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 556

State Board of Prison Control, and the Governor shall commu-
nicate such statements and reports to the Legislature with such
recommendations as he may think expedient.

653. The warden of each of said institutions shall, within
twenty days after the first of October in each year, make to the
said State Board of Prison Control a statement and report of
the affairs of their respective institutions setting out the mat-
ters and facts required in the next preceding Section in so far
as said matters and facts may relate to the affairs of the insti-
tution of which he is warden, and the statement and report re-
quired to be made in this Section shall be duly sworn to by the
warden and clerk of the institution concerning which said state-
ment and report may be made.

654. When any person is convicted, before any Circuit
Court of any County, or the Criminal Court of Baltimore, of
any crime, committed after this Act takes effect, and punish-
able by any imprisonment whatsoever or by fine and imprison-
ment (other than imprisonment in default of fine), said Court
may, in its discretion, sentence such person to imprisonment in
jail or in the Maryland House of Correction or in the Mary-
land Penitentiary. The term of such imprisonment in any of
said institutions shall be in the discretion of the Court, unless
a maximum term of imprisonment is prescribed by law, in
which event the imprisonment imposed shall not exceed the
maximum so fixed; provided, however, that all sentences for a
term exceeding six months shall be to the Maryland House of
Correction or to the Maryland Penitentiary, and provided
further that nothing in this proviso shall prevent the Court
from sentencing to the Maryland House of Correction or to
the Maryland Penitentiary, for a term exceeding six months,
any person who, in the absence of this proviso, might have been
sentenced to jail for a term exceeding six months, and pro-
vided further that no sentence to the Penitentiary or House
of Correction shall be for less than three months, except that
any sentence under section 414 of Article 27 of the Annotated
Code of Maryland, title 'Crimes and Punishment' sub-title
'Railroads—Obstructing' may be imposed in accordance with
the provisions of said section 414. Wherever the State Board
of Prison Control shall determine that prison discipline will be
furthered by transferring from the Maryland House of Cor-
rection to the Maryland Penitentiary or from the Maryland
Penitentiary to Maryland House of Correction any person
sentenced to either of said institutions for a crime committed