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any penal institution operated and supervised by the Department of
Correction in this State, unless after that time he is convicted and
sentenced in a court of this State for a crime or offense listed in
Section 6 above; and it is specifically provided that one such offense
or crime committed after June 1, 1954, if followed by conviction and
sentence, shall be sufficient to bring the said person within the appli-
cation of this Article. Any person who is held as an inmate or pris-
oner in any such penal institution on June 1, 1954, and who is ad-
judged to have broken the terms of any parole or probation on which
he is subsequently released shall be subject to the provisions of this
article as if he had committed a new and separate crime or offense
as listed above in Section 6, if the offense for which he was originally
convicted was within one of the categories of said Section 6. Nothing
in this article shall be construed to bring any person within the appli-
cation of this article by reason of any crime or offense committed
prior to June 1, 1954, unless it is under the foregoing provisions of
this section.

Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Board of Correction is authorized in its discretion, if it has reason
to believe that an inmate of any one of the penal institutions herein-
after named may be a defective delinquent, to transfer to Patuxent
Institution such person then confined in the Maryland Penitentiary,
the Maryland House of Correction or the Maryland State Reforma-
tory for Males who was confined in any of said institutions on or
before June 1,1954, for purposes of diagnosis and treatment as pro-
vided in Section 4 (c) of this Article; and the Board is also authorized
to transfer to Patuxent Institution from any of the penal institutions
above mentioned any inmate for the purpose of employment at the
Patuxent Institution; provided, however, that no person transferred
as provided in this paragraph shall be retained in the custody of any
of the above named institutions nor in the Patuxent Institution be-
yond the date of the expiration of the original sentence nor beyond
any earlier date which will result from allowance for any diminution
of sentence allowed and unforfeited pursuant to the provisions of
Section 776 of Article 27.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency law and necessary for the immediate preserva-
tion of the public health and safety, and having been passed by a
yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of all the members elected
to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly of Maryland, the
same shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1955.

CHAPTER 245
(House Bill 465)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 289 of the
Charter and Public Local Laws of Baltimore City (1949 Edition),

EXPLANATION: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.