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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 340.

AN ACT to confirm and enlarge the powers and au-

thority of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of Balti-

more city; a corporation chartered under the pro-

visions of section twenty-six of the Code of Public

General Laws, entitled corporations.

Confirmed and

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of

enlarged

Maryland, That the power and authority of the He-

brew Orphan Asylum of Baltimore city, a corpora-

tion chartered under the provisions of article twenty-

six of the Code of Public General Laws, entitled cor-

porations, are hereby confirmed and enlarged as fol-

lows :

Number of
Directors

SEC. 2. The number of Directors of the Hebrew

Orphan Asylum of Baltimore City, be and the same

is hereby increased from twelve to fifteen, of whom

one shall be elected by the corporation to act as Pre-

sident, and one us Vice President, and one as Trea-

surer.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the Hebrew Orphan

Exclusive care.

Asylum of Baltimore city and the officers and Board

of Directors thereof shall have the exclusive care,

charge, custody, and control, of all children whom

they shall receive into said asylum until they shall

be, if males, twenty-one years old, if females, eigh-

teen years old, or any shorter period for which they

may be received by said corporation; and to bind

them out for a time not exceeding said ages of twen-

Bind out

ty-one and eighteen years respectively, or such shor-

ter period as aforesaid, as apprentices to learn any

profession, trade, business, or useful occupation, or

may, under terms proper in the view of the said offi-

cers and Board of Directors, and to be by them stip-

ulated, place them for adoption, or as inmates with

any families or persons; said corporation, in the ex-

Limited to

ercise of any of these powers of binding or placing-

places

out not being limited to places within this State, and

all such acts of binding or placing out being required

to be in writing, signed by the President or Vice

President of said corporation and by the persons tak-

ing the children as apprentices as aforesaid, and by

said signers acknowledged before a justice of the