406 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 123

Miscellaneous

701.

For the purpose of increasing the efficiency in the treatment, man-
agement, and rehabilitation of persons committed to the institutions
under the control of the Department of Correction, there shall be full
and complete interchange between the Department of Correction
and the Department of Parole and Probation of records and all
pertinent information relating to each of the persons so committed.
It is the duty of said departments to provide the procedures and
methods for the interchange of the records and information as re-
quired by this section.

702.

It is lawful for the Department of Correction on such terms and
conditions as it may prescribe to receive into custody

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INSTITU-
TIONS UNDER ITS JURISDICTION by the courts of the United
States for the District of Maryland, and any person who is sen-
tenced to imprisonment by the courts of the United States for the
District of Maryland, while in such institutions, is subject to the
same rules and discipline to which other convicts INMATES from
the State courts are subjected.

70S.

The Criminal Court of Baltimore and the Circuit Court of Anne
Arundel County, at each term of court, shall charge the grand jury
attending thereupon to inquire into the conduct and management of
each of said institutions within the jurisdiction of said court, and
shall make presentments of all offenses and omissions of any
person in or relating to said institution.

704.

It is the duty of the Department of Correction to cause regular
inspections to be made of the several county and Baltimore City jails,
lockups, prison JAIL farms, and other places used for the detention
or confinement of offenders against the laws of the State of Mary-
land, and to submit a report to the county commissioners of the sev-
eral counties and the mayor and city council of Baltimore, showing
the results of such inspection, together with recommendations as to
any improvements which should be made. In the event that the county
commissioners of any county and the mayor and city council of
Baltimore provide for making improvements to the jail or to the
prison JAIL farm of said county or city, the State, through the Board
of Public Works, may make provision for paying one-fourth of the
costs of such improvements.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Department of Cor-
rection herein constituted is a continuation of the Board of Correction
and of the Department of Correction as they existed prior to the
effective date of this Act, subject to the changes and modifications
herein provided.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all property, real, per-
sonal, and mixed, of the Department of Correction and of the Board