548 REFUGE—HOUSE OF. [ART. 78.

13. The ground and the buildings which may be erected
thereon for said House of Eefuge shall be free of tax.

14. Fo public streets, lanes, alleys, roads, rail roads or canals
of any kind, shall be opened through the lands, or any part of
the lands of the House of Eefuge, where the same are exclusively
used or appropriated for the purposes of its incorporation, except
with the consent of the board of managers,

15. The board of managers shall have power, in their dis-
cretion, to take into said house all such white children as shall
be taken up and committed as street beggars or vagrants, or
shall be convicted of criminal offences, or as hereinafter provided

for in the case of application of parents or guardians.

16. They shall have power to place the children committed to
their care, during the minority of such children, at such employ-
ments, and cause them to be instructed in such branches of useful
knowledge, as may be suited to their years and capacities.

17*. The managers of the House of Eefuge shall have power
to bind out the children committed to their care, with the consent
of such children, as apprentices during their minority, that is to
say, males until the age of twenty-one years, and the females
until the age of eighteen years, to such persons and places,
whether in or out of this State, and to learn such proper trades
or employments, as in the judgment of the said managers will be
most conducive to the reformation and the future benefit and
advantage of such children; and the indentures by which said
children shall be bound shall contain the covenants and shall be
recorded as prescribed by article sixth of the code, and all the
provisions of the said article in relation to white apprentices
shall apply to apprentices bound under this section.

18*. The manner of receiving inmates into the House of Eefuge
shall be in either of the following modes, namely: First, white
minors maybe committed by a justice of the peace for any of the
counties, or the city of Baltimore, on complaint and due proof
made to him by the parent, guardian or next friend of such minor,
that, by reason of incorrigible or vicious conduct, such minor has
rendered his or her control beyond the power of such parent,
guardian or next friend, and made it manifestly requisite, that
from regard for the morals and future welfare of such minor, and
the peace and order of society, he or she should be placed under