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second or any subsequent occasion; provided, however, that in every
case so brought before the criminal court of Baltimore or the circuit
court for any county the trial shall be by jury, if demanded by the
party charged; and if in any case brought as aforesaid before any jus-
tice of the peace the party charged shall demand a jury trial, the said
justice shall certify said case to the criminal court of Baltimore, or
the circuit court for the county, as the case may be, to be proceeded
with and tried by said court in the same manner as if the case had been
originally brought before said court; and such court or justice may
commit said person, in the absence of suitable bail, to the said House
of the Good Shepherd instead of the common jail, pending the said
charge.

1904, art. 27, see. 484. 1888, art. 27, see. 328. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 8.

547. The directors of the said House of the Good Shepherd in the
city of Baltimore shall annually report to the governor of this State a
full account of the operations of the said corporation; and the comp-
troller of the State shall semi-annually on the first day of January and
July draw his warrant on the treasurer to the order of the president of
the said corporation for an amount at the rate of twenty cents per diem
for each of the average number of females committed by any court or
justice of the peace, as hereinbefore provided, who shall have been in
the said institution during the preceding six months; and the sum of
two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby
appropriated to pay the said twenty cents per day out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Ibid. sec. 485. 1888, art. 27, sec. 329. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 9.

548. The judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, the president
of the board of police commissioners and the marshal of police of the
city of Baltimore shall, at such times as they think proper, visit and
inspect the said institution.

House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls.

Ibid. sec. 486. 1894, ch. 187, sec. 329A.

549. The House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls of the
city of Baltimore, organized under the general incorporation laws of
this State, for the purpose of affording a refuge to colored females who
have had the misfortune to lead an evil life and who wish to abandon
their vicious course and reform, such persons to be received without
distinction of creed, age or place of birth or residence, is declared to
be a body corporate and politic of this State for the purpose aforesaid,
and is hereby, as to colored females, vested with all such powers and
charged with all such duties as have heretofore been conferred or
charged by law as to white females on the House of the Good Shepherd
of the city of Baltimore.