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authorizing the Board of Correction to employ the neces-
sary personnel to maintain and operate said institution and
to recommend to the Director of Parole and Probation
paroles for persons serving indeterminate sentences in said
Reformatory, such paroled persons to be under the super-
vision and control of the Director of Parole and Probation;
providing that no person shall be sentenced to said Reforma-
tory for less than three (3) months, authorizing the commit-
ment or transfer to said Reformatory of female offenders
sentenced to death for detention until not less than twenty-
four (24) hours prior to the execution of said sentence;
providing for the Severability of the various provisions of
this Act, and repealing all other laws inconsistent herewith
to the extent of the inconsistency.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 761A, 761B, 761C, 761D, 761E and 761F
of Article 27 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1943 Sup-
plement), title "Crimes and Punishments", sub-title "Depart-
ment of Correction", be and the same are hereby repealed, and
that five new sections be and the same are hereby enacted in
lieu thereof, to be known as Sections 761A, 761B, 761C, 761D,
and 761E, to following immediately after Section 761 of said
Article, said new sections to read as follows:

761A. The institution established under the provisions of
Chapter 71 of the Acts of 1941, known as the "Women's Prison
of the State of Maryland" shall hereafter be known as the
"Maryland State Reformatory for Women", and shall be the
place of confinement for all female offenders who may be sen-
tenced to imprisonment in any institution other than a jail
The courts of this State, instead of imposing sentences of fixed
duration upon female offenders, may, in their discretion, sen-
tence them to said Reformatory for an indeterminate period
of time, which Shall not exceed the maximum term of imprison-
ment provided by statute for the offense of which said person
was convicted, and in the event no penalty is provided by
statute for said offense, then the court shall prescribe the maxi-
mum term of imprisonment; provided, however, that nothing
herein contained relating to the imposition of indeterminate
sentences shall apply to any case in which the sentence im-
posed is life imprisonment.

All Justices of the Peace who shall sentence any female
offender to. confinement in any institution other than a jail,
shall sentence such offender to the Maryland State Reforma-
tory for Women for an indeterminate period of time not to
exceed the maximum term of imprisonment, which said Jus-
tice of the Peace is authorized by statute to impose.