WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

thirty dollars, James Ridgeley and Polly Ridgely, his
wife, twenty dollars each, and Mary Shannon, thirty
dollars; in Montgomery county, to Elisha Walker,
thirty dollars, payable to the said pensioners; or their
orders respectively, or such person or persons as the
said Levy Courts or Commissioners of the Tax shall
direct.

CHAPTER 400.

CHAP. 400.

Montgomery.

A supplement to an act relating to the Maryland Peni-
tentiary.

Passed April 6,

1839.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That so much of the sixth section of the act,

relating to the Maryland Penitentiary, to which this

is a supplement, as authorizes the warden thereof,
annually, to appoint an assistant warden, be. and the
same is hereby repealed, and that the authority there-
by conferred upon said warden be. and the same is
hereby in the same manner and to the same extent,
vested in the directors of said Penitentiary.

Power of appoint-

ing assistant War-

den.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That the thirteenth sec-
tion of said act, December session, eighteen hundred
and thirty-seven, chapter three hundred and twenty,
be, and the same is hereby repealed, and that the forty

sixth section of the act of November session, eighteen

hundred and nine, chapter one hundred and thirty-
eight, be, and the same is hereby declared to be in full
force and effect from and after the passage of this act.

13th section of Act

of 1837, ch. 320,

repealed.

45th section of Act

of 1809, ch. 138,

re-enacted.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the power hereto-
fore conferred upon the several courts of this State, in
passing sentence upon persons convicted of crimes, to
direct and appoint the part or portion of the time of
his or her imprisonment, to be placed and kept in the
solitary cells of said Penitentiary on low and coarse
diet, be, and the same is hereby rescinded and annul-
led.
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Courts no longer

compelled to sen-

tence to solitary

confinement.