THOMAS G. PRATT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1845

CHAPTER 83.

An additional supplement to the act relating to the Mary-
land Penitentiary, passed at December session eighteen
hundred and thirty-seven, chapter three hundred ana
twenty.

CHAP. 84.

Passed Feb.
2, 1846.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That so much of section five, of the act of
eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, chapter three hun-
dred and twenty, and of the rules and regulations estab-
lished thereby, prohibiting the employment of convicts
and forbidding their entrance into the front building of
the penitentiary, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the directors of the
penitentiary may authorise the payment in whole or in
part, of the salaries and dues of the several officers and
others officially connected with the institution, in the
goods, work or manufactures of the penitentiary.

Salaries of offi-
cers paid in
whole or in
part.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the directors afore-
said may, in their discretion, allow female convicts to
bring with them into the penitentiary their infant chil-
dren; and that the said directors shall have the power,
and they are hereby authorised to bind such children as
apprentices, binding the males till they are twenty-one,
and the females till they are eighteen years of age.

Allow female
convicts to
bring their in-
fant children
with them.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all laws or parts of
laws inconsistent with, or repugnant to the provisions of
this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 84.

Repealed.

An act to reduce the number of the Board of Commis-
sioners of Washington County, and to provide for their
election by general ticket.

Passed Jan.
30, 1840.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the present members of the board of
commissioners of Washington county, be and they are
hereby continued in office, with all their present powers,
until the election of a board of commissioners for said
county as hereinafter provided.

Present board
of of commission-
ers continued
in office.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That after the expiration
of the term of service of the present incumbents, the

Board to con-
sist of 3 mem-
bers.