824 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. '502

controlled or managed public or quasi-public institution
or agency; or to any department or agency of the govern-
ment of the United States, the District of Columbia, any
other State or its political sub-divisions, or any foreign
country, when not prohibited by the Acts of Congress; or
to any charitable, civic, educational, fraternal or religious
association, institution or agency for its own use and not
for resale to others; or to any person, firm or corporation
for purposes of national defense when not prohibited by
the Acts of Congress, and except as authorized by this Act,
such goods, wares and merchandise shall not be sold either
directly or indirectly to the consuming public; provided,
however, that articles of handicraft made by the inmates
of penal institutions may be sold at retail and not for
purposes of resale for the account of the inmates under
such terms, conditions, rules and regulations as may be
prescribed by the Board of Correction.

(2) Should any person, firm, association or corpora-
tion, directly or indirectly violate the provisions of this
section the person or persons knowingly participating in
such violation shall be punished by a fine of not more than
$500. 00 or imprisonment of not more than one year, or
both, in the discretion of the Court.

(3) The Board of Correction is hereby authorized and
empowered in its discretion to equip as funds become avail-
able the penal and reformatory institutions of the State of
Maryland under its jurisdiction, hereinafter called "Pro-
ducing Institutions", with such plants, machinery and nec-
essaries as will permit them adequately to supply all goods,
wares, merchandise and produce required to be purchased
by the needs of the State, its political sub-divisions, and by
State-aided, owned, controlled or managed public or quasi-
public institutions and agencies, hereinafter called "Con-
suming Institutions", as may be feasible; all of said Con-
suming Institutions are hereby required to purchase their
requirements of the same from the Board of Correction
exclusively except products such as the Board of Correction
shall in writing notify the State Purchasing Bureau can-
not be furnished by the penal or reformatory institutions
of the State, or such as their perishable nature may render
impracticable for such institutions to furnish; provided,
however, that this requirement to purchase their said needs
of the Board of Correction shall not apply to any State-
aided, managed or controlled public or semi-public insti-
tution which does not receive at least fifty per cent of the
funds for its upkeep (exclusive of receipts from its
patrons from the State of Maryland and/or some political
sub-division or sub-divisions thereof. It shall be the duty