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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

business, or in the case of the female also to
learn to be useful in housewifery, or may, under
terms proper in view of the said Managers, and to
be by them stipulated, place them for adoption, or
as inmates with any families or persons; and the
said corporation, in the exercise of any of the pow-
ers vested in them in this section, of binding or
placing out said minors, shall not be limited to
places within the State.

Parents
or Guardians
may place
children.

926, If any parent or guardian, or any Judge
of the Orphans' Court of Baltimore City, or any
Justice of the Peace for said city, shall place under
the care and control of the Home of the Friendless
any child, whether male or female, under the age
of eighteen years, of the description of children
hereinbefore mentioned, or as suffering through the
extreme indigence or vagrancy, or bad habits, or
neglect of parents, or from cruelty of intemperate
parents, or as being illegitimate, or children of
persons out of the State, without sufficient suste-
nance, the said corporation and the managers
thereof shall hold and control such, children, with
power to bind or place them out as hereinbefore
provided.

927. Any constable or police officer of said city,
upon application of any manager of the Home of

Orphans Court

the Friendless, or of his own accord, may carry
before any Judge of the Orphans' Court for said
city, or any Justice of the Peace, any child of the
description mentioned in the preceding section,
to be dealt with as therein provided.

In force.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1870.