J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                           1029

ment 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 ap-
plication of this article. Any person who is held as an inmate or
prisoner in any such penal institution on June 1, 1954, and who is
adjudged 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 application 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 be-
fore 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 688 of Article 27.]

16. Certain Transfers Between Institutions

(a)  Any person imprisoned on a sentence for a crime or offense
committed before June 1, 1954, may, by agreement between the De-
partment of Correction and Patuxent Institution and without court
proceedings, be transferred to Patuxent Institution for examination
as a possible defective delinquent and, if so diagnosed, may by simi-
lar agreement be detained there for the duration of his sentence or
any part thereof.

(b)  Any person in the custody of the Department of Correction
may be transferred to Patuxent Institution for employment there by
agreement between the Institution and the Department of Correction.

(c) The sentence of any person transferred to Patuxent Institu-
tion under the provisions of this Section shall be subject to the same
diminution for behavior, work and training as though said person
had remained in the custody of the Department of Correction.

(d) Any person in the custody of Patuxent Institution may be
transferred, by agreement between the Institution and the Depart-
ment of Correction, to the custody of the Department of Correction
for employment on a prison farm or in any work project or for hos-