DANIEL MARTIN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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ivors of either sex, who shall be convicted in any county
court of this state of any offence which under the existing
laws would be punished by imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary, as may be, in the judgment of said court, deemed
proper objects of the House of Refuge, shall be committed
to the said House of Refuge, and placed under the care and
discipline of the .managers thereof.
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1830.
CHAP. 64.
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Sec. 7. And be it enacted. That the managers of the
said House of Refuge shall have power to place the said
minors, committed to their care, during their minority,
that is to say, males until the age of twenty-one years, and
females till the age of eighteen years, at such employment,
and cause them to be instructed in such branches of useful
knowledge as may be suitable to their years and capacities,
and they shall have power to bind out said minors as ap-
prentices during their minority as aforesaid, to such per-
sons, and at such places, to learn such trades and employ-
ments as in their judgment will be most conducive to the
reformation and tend to the future benefit of said minors.
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May be em-
ployed and
bound out.
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Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That all minors who shall
be committed to the House of Refuge by any of the county
courts of this state, shall be clothed, maintained and in-
structed, by the said managers, at the public expense of the
proper county, and the accounts of the said children shall
be kept by the managers in the same manner that the ac-
r.ounts of convicts in the penitentiary are now directed to
be kept.
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How to be
clothed.
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Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That all minors who shall be
arrested in the city or county of Baltimore, charged with
any criminal offence, and who shall he unable to give bail
for their appearance to answer said charge, shall, instead of
being confined in jail, be committed to the House of Re-
fuge, to await their trial.
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Arrested, and
unable to give
bail.
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Sec. 10. And be it enacted, That the managers of the
House of Refuge, under this act, may from time to time
make by-laws, ordinances and regulations, relative to the
management, government, instruction, discipline, employ-
ment and disposition of the said minors, while in the said
House of Refuge, not contrary to law, as they may deem
proper, and may appoint such officers, agents, and servants,
as they may deem necessary to transact the business of the
said corporation, and may designate their duties; and fur-
ther, that the said managers shall make annual report to
the legislature of Maryland, of the number of minors re-
ceived by them into the House of Refuge, the disposition
"which shall be made of the said children, by instructing or
employing them in the said House of Refuge, or by binding
them out as apprentices, the receipts and expenditures of
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Managers,
their powers —
to report to Le-
gislature.
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