482, CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

1904, art. 27, sec. 480. 1888, art. 27,- sec. 324. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 4.

543. The said corporation shall have power to bind out. all minors
committed to their care, with the consent of such minors, as apprentices
during their minority, to.such persons and places, within or out of this
State, and to learn such proper trades or employments, as in the judg-
ment of such managers will be most conducive to the reformation and
the future benefit and advantage of such children; and the indentures
by which children shall be bound shall contain the covenants, and shall
be recorded as prescribed by law; and all the provisions of this code in
relation to white apprentices shall apply to apprentices bound under
this section.

Ibid. sec. 481. 1888, art. 27, sec. 325. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 5.

544. The directors of the said House of the Good Shepherd shall
have power to place all the females committed to their care at such
employment and cause them to be instructed in such branches of useful
knowledge as may be suited to their years and capacities; and they
shall have power to classify the inmates of the refuge conducted by
them and to make all such useful rules and regulations as in their
experience they shall from time to time find necessary for the regula-
tion and government of the same.

Ibid. sec. 482. 1888, art. 27, sec. 326. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 6.

545. The said corporation shall have power to receive within the
refuge conducted by it all such females as may be committed to it by
the criminal court of Baltimore, the circuit court for any county, or
any justice of the peace in the State of Maryland under the provisions
hereinafter contained and the same to retain within the said refuge for
their several terms of commitment; provided, however, that the direc-
tors of the said corporation may, at any time prior to the expiration of
her term of commitment, discharge and release any female so com-
mitted to their care, on being satisfied of her reformation.

Ibid. sec. 483. 1888, art. 27, sec. 327. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 7.

546. The judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, or any judge
of any circuit court for any county, upon information that, any female
under the age of eighteen years in their several counties or the city of
Baltimore, as the case may be, leads a disorderly and dissolute course
of life, may, upon application of the parent or next friend of such
female, issue a warrant or order to be directed to the sheriff or to any
constable or police officer in such county or city, commanding him to
bring the person against whom the information is so given before said
court or said justice on any day to be named therein, not more than one
week from the date of the warrant, to answer to said charge; and the
said court or said justice upon proof of said charge may commit such
female to the said House of the Good Shepherd of the city of Baltimore
for not less than one week nor more than two months for the first occa-
sion, and not less than one month nor more than six months for the