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687.

No officer or employee of the Department of Correction may be
directly or indirectly concerned or interested in any contract, pur-
chase, or sale made by the Department, or by its authority, or may
accept any reward or gift or any promise of any reward or gift
directly or indirectly from any person interested in any contract,
purchase, or sale made by the Department or by its authority; and
every officer and employee shall make report to the said Department
of all such offenses coming to his knowledge, and a failure or neglect
to do so is a breach of duty and punishable under this section. Any
person violating any provision of this section is punishable by a fine
of not more than $500.

688.

No officer or employee of the Department of Correction may accept
any reward or gift, or any promises of reward or gift, from any
convict INMATE in any of said institutions, or from any one on his
behalf, or may receive any devise or bequest, or any promise of devise
or bequest, from any such convict, INMATE, or from any person on
his behalf, or may enter into any contract with any such convict,
INMATE, or with any person on his behalf. All such gifts, rewards,
bequests, devises, promises, and contracts are void; and any person
violating any provision of this section is punishable by a fine of not
more than $500.

Institutions

689.

(a) The penal institutions under the Department of Correction
we:

(b) The Maryland Penitentiary.

(c) The Maryland House of Correction.

(1) When any person is convicted before any justice of the peace
having criminal jurisdiction, of any misdemeanor, committed after
October 1, 1916, and punishable by imprisonment in jail, or by fine
and imprisonment in jail (other than imprisonment in default of
fine), the justice of the peace may sentence such person to be con-
fined in the Maryland House of Correction; and all sentences of im-
prisonment for over six months imposed by the justice upon such
person shall be to the Maryland House of Correction. All sentences
to the Maryland House of Correction under this section may be for
a term of imprisonment up to but not exceeding the maximum term
in jail which the justice might have imposed for the offense commit-
ted had this section not been enacted; provided, however, that in no
case whatsoever may any justice sentence any person to imprison-
ment in the Maryland House of Correction for more than three years
nor for less than three months, except that any sentence under Sec-
tion 455 of this article may be imposed in accordance with the pro-
visions of said Section 455;

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Nothing in this section may be construed to prevent any justice hav-
ing jurisdiction from committing any minor to any industrial school
or juvenile reformatory to which minors may now be committed un-
der existing law.