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BOARD OF MANAGERS OF HOUSE OF REFORMATION.
Institution at Cheltenham, Prince George's County.
(Terms Expire 1925.)
Name. Postoffice.
H. B. Claggett....................................................................................................Upper Marlboro
Clarence M. .Robert.....................................................................................................Landover
W. H. Janey, Secretary, Vickers Building............................................Baltimore
Superintendent, John B. Pyles.
Governor appoints two annually in the month of February. (Bag-
by Code, Art. 27, Sec. 553.)
The inmates are all colored boys between the ages of ten and twen-
ty-one years. Each boy is required to attend school one-half of each
(lay and be engaged in some industrial work the other half. Various
industries are taught, the principal one being farming. The larger
boys are carefully trained in practical farming. All the work of the
farm of 1,250 acres is done by the boys under a head farmer and an
assistant, the other industries in which the boys are trained are tailor-
ing, shoemaking, carpentry, painting, laundering, baking and broom
making others are taught to be waiters. All the. clothing worn by the
boys, except military caps, are made by them.
The boys are committed by the courts and magistrates of the State
and City of Baltimore. Those coming from Baltimore are committed
mostly by the Juvenile Court. All commitments are during minority,
but are really indeterminate, as, by a parole system, a boy may earn
his parole in one year after he enters the institution.
MARYLAND WORKSHOP FOR THE BLIND.
601 N. Fulton Avenue, Baltimore.
(All Terms Expire 1927.)
Name. Postoffice.
Sewell S. Watts.....................................Md. School for Blind..................Baltimore
John G. Schilpp.........................................Md. School for Blind..................Baltimore
Wm. T. Shackelford.................................................................................................Baltimore
Arthur G. Barrett.........................................................................................................Baltimore .
George R. Bellows......................................................................................................Baltimore
The Maryland Workshop for the Blind, located 601 N. Fulton Ave.,
Baltimore, was founded by an Act of the Legislature of 1908, Chapter
566.*
It is governed by a Board of Directors, three members of which
are appointed by the Governor and two by the Board of Directors of
the Maryland School for the Blind.
The Board, under the law, is made a body corporate with power to
employ a secretary and other necessary employees and fix their com-
pensation.
It has been the custom for the Board to elect a Superintendent and
the other employees, including a manager; teachers, janitor, etc., are
chosen by the Superintendent, with the approval of the Board of Di-
rectors. i
Blind men and women are admitted to the workshop for training.
* Due to Constitutional Amendment of 1922, appointments made in 1924 are for
a term of three years.
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