The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1892-05-13
Secretary of the Senate.
CARLTON SHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.
AnnrroYed by the Governor. March lS. 1872.

Approved by the Governor. March 1s. 1892.
CHAPTER 273.
AN ACT TO AMEND ARTICLE TWENTY
seven Of the Code of Public General Laws, title
-Crimes and Punishments," subtitle "Convicts,"
adding thereto sx sections to come IN after sec
424 c, 424 D, 424 and 424 F, relating to the
identification of habitual criminals. 80, a.
senply of Maryland. That Article twenty seven
of the Code Of Public General Laws title Crimes
by adding six additional sections thereto, to come
Rs dfteE sestSa snd % e esa
relating to the Identification of habitual crimi-
nails, and to read respectively as follows:
which persons convicted Of any felonious offense
are or may be committed by the courts OF this
record or cause to be recorded, In a record Kept
for that purpose a description of every person
committed to such prison under sentence for a
felony, and also the criminal history OF every such
person SO committed as far as the same may appear
from the records of the courts of this state of
any other state or otherwise as full and complete
as may be obtafnable, and shall attach thereto
Corded. :
ton this act the states attorney of the county
or city in which criminal has been convicted and
sentenced to prison for felony shall Forward to the
such warder or other officer, and upon blanks
furnished by him, criminal history of such crlmi-
nal as fully as is known or can be ascertained by
such states attorney.
Ala c. That the register herein provided for
the pc o e Of
crime, and in the trial of ofenses committed after
having been imprisoned for prior onense. The
record shall be accessible, however. to any officer
of any court having criminal Jurisdiction in this
of the states attorney of the county or city in
which the person is being held for crime. which
said order shall be attested by the seal of the court
and any such record may be given in evidence upon
any trial of offender indicted under the habitua
criminal law of this state for the purpose of prov
ing former conviction or convictions and the Of
Tense or offenses for which convicted.
424 ID. That for the purpose OF obtaining accu-
rate descriptions of criminal convicts the warden
other officers in charge of the several prisons in
TINS state are hereby 10 aaoPs Ine Ber
such other method as shall infinitely describe con-
yicts.
history and of the photograph or photographs of
any convict entered upon such record or register
shall be furnished, upon the request of any warden
other officer in charge of prison for felons in
any other the United States to such warden
other officer in charge, provided such state has
made provision by law, for recording the descrip-
lions of its criminals convicted and for furnishing
states have made provisions by law for the keep
ing of registers Of descriptions and history OF their
convicts.
424 F. That copy of the description, history
and photograph or photographs of any convict en-
tered upon such records shall be furnished to any
officer OF the bureau of police, in the cities where
penitentiares may be located. upon the order
Of me 9T sne T OF
and every month the warden of the state penlten-
tiary penitentares located in said city or cities
shall furnish to the board of police commissioners
of said city cities the names of convicts whose
sentences expire the following month together with
the date when sentence commenced, the county or
city from which committed, the crime for which
committed and the exact day when the convict will
be discharged.
SEC 9 And be 1t enacted. That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.
copy of an act of the General Assembly of Mary
land, passed January session. 1892 ,,,-,,,,r,,
cARLT6S sHAFER,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.