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pitalization or for other treatment for illness or for imprisonment;
provided, however, that except in cases of transfer for hospitalization
or treatment for illness it shall first be found by the institutional
Board of Review that such transfer will not reduce or retard the
prospect of such person's release from confinement as a defective
delinquent, and provided further that such person, notwithstanding
transfer, shall remain committed to Patuxent Institution and shall
be returned there at least annually for re-examination by the insti-
tutional Board of Review.

17. All of the provisions of Section 680 of Article 27 of the An-

notated Code of Maryland (1957 Edition) shall be incorporated into

this section as though set forth in full in this section, except that

the powers, rights and duties conferred by said Section 680 on the

tuxent Institution and except that references in said Section 680

to penal and reformatory institutions of the State of Maryland shall
herein be deemed references to Patuxent Institution, and all refer-

ences in said Section 680 to convicts or prisoners shall herein be

deemed references to persons in the custody of Patuxent Institution.

THE BOARD OF PATUXENT INSTITUTION IS HEREBY EM-
POWERED TO DETERMINE FROM TIME TO TIME WHETHER,
AND TO WHAT EXTENT, PERSONS IN THE CUSTODY OF
SAID INSTITUTION AND SELECTED BY ITS DIRECTOR,
SHALL SUPPLY GOODS, WARES, MERCHANDISE AND PRO-
DUCE REQUIRED TO BE PURCHASED BY "CONSUMING IN-
STITUTIONS" AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE 27, SECTION 680 OF
THE ANNOTATED CODE OF MARYLAND. ALL SUCH ACTIVI-
TIES SHALL BE CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 27, SECTION 680 OF THE ANNO-
TATED CODE OF MARYLAND.

18.

(a)  Said Institution shall record or cause to be recorded a de-
scription of every person committed to it as a defective delinquent,
as full and complete as may be obtainable, and shall attach thereto
as part of said record a photograph or photographs of such person.
For the purpose of obtaining accurate descriptions of such persons,
the Director is hereby authorized to adopt the Bertillon method of
measurement and registration or such other method as shall be ade-
quately descriptive.

(b)  In order to accomplish the purposes of sub-section (a), the
State's Attorney of any county or city, in which any person has been
found to be a defective delinquent, is hereby directed to forward
promptly to said Institution and upon blanks furnished by it, a
criminal history of such person as fully as the same is known or can
be ascertained by such State's Attorney.

(c)  The record herein provided for shall not be made public except
as may be necessary in the identification or trial of persons accused
of crime and except as provided in THIS Section. 18. The record shall
be accessible, however, to any officer of any court having criminal
jurisdiction in this State, upon the order of the judge of said court,
or of the State's Attorney, which said order shall be attested by the
seal of the court. Whenever, in the trial of any person, the fact of
previous conviction of any person for any crime may be admissible,