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20. Every member of said Board and the Director, members of
the staff and other employees connected with said Institution shall
have reimbursed to them all actual and necessary traveling and other

expenses which the said Board may certify to have been incurred

by them in the discharge of their official duties other than normal

commuting to and from said Institution; and the said reimburse-

ments shall be made by the said Board out of any fund in the hands

of said Board, or by the State Treasurer, upon warrant of the Comp-
troller of the treasury, out of the funds appropriated therefor.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Section 706 (a) of Article
27 of said Code (1960 Supplement), title "Crimes and Punishments",
sub-title "Places of Reformation and Punishment", sub-heading "De-
partment of Correction", be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

706.

(a) When any person is convicted, before any circuit court of any
county, or the Criminal Court of Baltimore, of any crime, committed
on or after June 1, 1943, and punishable by any imprisonment what-
soever or by fine and imprisonment, (other than imprisonment in
default of fine), said court may, in its discretion, sentence such per-
son to imprisonment in jail or in the Maryland House of Correction
or in the Maryland Penitentiary. The term of such imprisonment in
any of said institutions shall be in the discretion of the court, unless
a maximum term of imprisonment is prescribed by law, in which
event the imprisonment imposed shall not exceed the maximum so
fixed; provided, however, that no sentence to the penitentiary or
house of correction shall be for less than three months; except that
any sentence under Section 455 of this article may be imposed in
accordance with the provisions of said Section 455. Whenever the
Superintendent of Prisons shall determine that prison discipline will
be furthered by transferring from the Maryland House of Correc-
tion to the Maryland Penitentiary, or the Maryland State Reforma-
tory for Males [or the Patuxent Institution], or from any one of the
said institutions to the other, any person sentenced to any of said
institutions for a crime committed after October 1, 1916, and shall
issue his warrant to the warden and superintendent or wardens of
said institution directing such transfer, then the said sentence of
the court shall operate to authorize such transfer by virtue hereof.
The power of transfer conferred upon the Superintendent of Prisons
by this section shall authorize the said Superintendent of Prisons to
transfer any person confined in any of said institutions to any other
of said institutions at any time the said Superintendent of Prisons
may, in his discretion, determine that such transfer will improve
discipline or aid in the safekeeping, treatment, training, employment
or rehabilitation of such person.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
June 1, 1961.

Approved May 3, 1961.