1748 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 758

consent of the Senate, a Superintendent of Prisons, who
shall hold office at the pleasure of the Board. Such Super-
intendent of Prisons shall be the administrative officer of
the Department, and his decisions shall not require
approval of the Board unless policy-making is involved.
Such Superintendent of Prisons shall appoint members of
his staff and other employees of the Department who shall
be approved by the Board, and who shall be removable
only under the provisions of the Merit System.

763. The [Board of Correction] Superintendent of
Prisons may whenever [it] he deems it advisable to do so,
transfer to said Reformatory from other penal institu-
tions, male offenders of any age, and it shall have the
power to transfer from said Reformatory to other institu-
tions under its control male offenders sentenced to said
Reformatory and found by said [Board] Superintendent
of Prisons to be incorrigible and unmanageable, and who
may be more safely cared for or trained in other insti-
tutions.

794. (a) When any person is convicted, before any
Circuit Court of any County, or the Criminal Court of
Baltimore, of any crime, committed on or after June 1,
1943, and punishable by any imprisonment whatsoever or
by fine and imprisonment, (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 Maryland Penitentiary. The
term of such imprisonment in any of said institutions
_x 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 no sentence to the Peni-
tentiary or House of Correction shall be for less than three
months; except that any sentence under Section 550 of
this Article may be imposed in accordance with the pro-
visions of said Section 550. Whenever the [Board of Cor-
rection] Superintendent of Prisons shall determine that
prison discipline will be furthered by transferring from
the Maryland House of Correction to the Maryland Peni-
tentiary, or the Maryland State Reformatory for Males,
or from any one of the three said institutions to the other,
any person sentenced to either of said institutions for a
crime committed after October 1, 1916, and shall issue
[its] his warrant to the Warden and Superintendent or
wardens of said institution directing such transfer, then
the said sentence of the Court shall operate to authorize
such transfer by virtue hereof. The power of transfer