PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. 259

United Charities Hospital Association of Dorchester County, Maryland,
receives under chapter 462, 1898, $1,500 for the year 1898, and a like sum
for 1899. It is required to furnish ten beds for State patients, and to
support free county patients. (Act of 1898, chapter 4H2.) Apply to the
Association, Cambridge, Md.

Women's Medical College of Baltimore receives by chapter 823,1698, f«r
the Hospital of the Good Samaritans, $1,500 for the year 1899 and $1,500
for the year 1900. For this the hospital is required to receive one free
patient from each county in the State and one from each. Legislative
district in the city of Baltimore. Apply to Ida Pollack, M. D., Cor-
responding Secretary, southwest corner of McCulloh and Hoffman
streets, Baltimore.

The Female House of Refuge, situated at the corner of Baker and
Carey streets, Baltimore city, receives an annual appropriation from the
State of $5,000. This institution aims at the reformation of destitute
females who are received free of cost. Officers of the institution—
Wm. K. Bibb, Superintendent; Secretary, D. Hopper Emory, Baltimore
city.

REFORMATORY INSTITUTIONS.

Emit of Good Shepherd receives under chapter 323, 1898, *3,000 for
the year 1899 and $3,080 for the year 1900, and is required to receive
and board females for twenty cents a day who shall have been committed
by any court or justice of the peace. (Article 37, sections 321-329, Code.)

House of Information. The Board of Managers shall have power, in
their discretion, to take vagrant or incorrigible colored boys. Justices
of the peace or courts may commit to the House of Reformation. (Code,
article 27, sections 344, 347 and 319 )

Souse of Refuge. The Board of Managers have power to take white
vagrants or incorrigible male children. (Article 27, section 365 of Code.)
Justices of the peace and courts may commit to the House of Refuge.
(Ibid., sections 309 and 379.)

Industrial Some for Colt/red Girls receives under chapter 323, 1898,
$3,800 for the year 1899 and $3,500 for the year 1900. It is located at
Melvale, Baltimore county. It is required to receive inmates on appli-
cation or commitment of justice. '.Article 27, sections 374-383, Code.)
Apply to Edward Markell, Treasurer.

St. Mary'i Industrial School receives under chapter 323, 1898, $15,000
for the year 1899 and $15,000 for the year 1800. It is located on Wilkens
avenue and Maiden's Choice lane, Baltimore. Its object is to provide
& home, education and industrial training for orphans, destitute or
incorrigible boys, and to reform juveniles. Boys between the ages of
ten and sixteen are admitted Any Court or justice may commit
youthful offenders to the school. (Article 27, sections 384-388, Code.)
Apply to William F. Wheatlf, Secretary of Board of Directors, or
Brother Dominic, Superintendent.

PENAL INSTITUTIONS.

The Maryland House of Correction ia located at Jessups, Anne Arundel
county, 'fhis Institntion is for the confinement of short-term prisoners.
The institution is partly self-sustaining. The State appropriation for
1898 is $35,000.

The Maryland Penitentiary, located in Baltimore city. This Institution
is supported entirely by the proceeds of the labor of the prisoners, and
a handsome balance is annually turned over to the State Treasury.