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respecting the religious and moral education, training, employment,
discipline, and safe-keeping of its inmates, as may be deemed expedient
and proper.

1904, art. 27, sec. 500. 1888, art. 27, sec. 342. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 13.

563. The ground and the buildings which may be erected thereon
for said House of Reformation shall be free of tax.

Ibid. sec. 501. 1888, art. 27, sec. 343. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 14.

564. No public streets, lanes, alleys, roads, railroads or canals of
any kind shall be opened through the lands, or- any part of the lands of
the House of Reformation, where the same are exclusively used or
appropriated for the purposes of its incorporation, except with the con-
sent of the board of managers,

Ibid. sec. 502. 1888, art 27, sec. 344. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 15. 1882, ch. 247.

565. The board of managers of the House of Reformation shall
have power, in their discretion, to take into said house all such colored
boys as shall be taken up and committed as street beggars or vagrants,
or for incorrigible or vicious conduct, or shall be convicted for criminal
offenses, or as hereinafter provided for in the case of application of
parents or guardians.

Ibid. sec. 503. 1888, art 27, sec. 345. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 16.

566. They shall have power to place the children committed to
their care, during the minority of such children, at such employments,
and cause them to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge
as may be suited to their years and capacities.

Ibid. sec. 504. 1888, art. 27, sec. 346. 1870, ch. 392, see. 17.

567. The managers of the House of Reformation shall have power
to bind out the children committed to their care, with the consent of
such children, as apprentices d'uring their minority; that is to say,
males until the age of twenty-one years and females until the age of
eighteen years, to such persons and places, whether in or out of this
State, and to learn such proper trades or employments as in the judg-
ment of the said managers will be most conducive to the reformation
and the future benefit and advantage of such children; and the inden-
tures by which such children shall be bound shall contain the covenants
and shall be recorded as prescribed by law; and all the provisions of
the code in relation to white apprentices shall apply to apprentices
bound under this section.

Ibid. sec. 505. 1888, art. 27, sec. 347. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 18.

568. The manner of receiving inmates into the House of Reforma-
tion shall be in either of the following modes, namely; first, colored
minors may be committed by a justice of the peace for any of the coun-