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in the same manner and on the same conditions as apprentices
may now be bound by the laws of this State.

917. Every unmarried male under twenty-one years of age,
and unmarried female under eighteen years of age, shall be con-
sidered minors within the meaning of the preceding section.

918. The Orphans' Court of Baltimore city shall have con-
current jurisdiction over all cases of minors under the preced-
ing section, and exercise all the powers in relation to them
which are hereinbefore granted to the Criminal Court and to
justices of the peace of said city.

919. The Criminal Court of Baltimore shall try all cases which
may be brought before it in relation to vagrants and beggars, in
the same manner and at the same time as cases for assault and
battery are now tried by said court; Provided that the trial shall
be by jury, if demanded by the party charged.

920. If in any case which may be brought before a justice of
the peace, or before the Orphans' Court, the party charged shall
demand a jury trial, the said justice or said court shall certify
said case to the Criminal Court of Baltimore, to be proceeded
•with and tried by Said court, in the same manner as if the case
had been originally brought before said court.

921. The justice of the peace, and the clerk of the Criminal
Court, and Register of Wills of the Orphans' Court aforesaid,
respectively, shall receive the sum of twenty-five cents for issuing
every warrant, and fifty cents for making out every commitment
or indenture of apprenticeship of such vagrants or beggars, and
the constable, sheriff or police officer for serving said warrant,
and bringing the person charged before either of said courts, or
before said justice, shall receive the sum of fifty cents, and for
carrying any person committed to the place of commitment, the
sum of fifty cents, which several sums shall be paid as other costs
in criminal cases are now paid, but either of said courts, or said
justice, may at discretion adjudge that the said costs shall be
paid by the informer in cases where the person charged is ac-
quitted.

922. The justices of the peace for Baltimore city, the trustees
of the poor for said city, and the ward managers of the poor in
said city, may commit to the care and charge of " The Home of