ART. 27] INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR COLORED GIRLS. 497

Home for Colored Girls shall be exempt and free of all taxes; no public
streets, lanes or alleys, roads or railroads or canals of any kind shall
be opened through the lands of the said institution, when the same are
exclusively used or appropriated for the purposes of its incorporation,
except with the consent of the board of managers

1904, art, 27, sec. 538. 1888, art. 27, sec. 379. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 6.

611. The board of managers shall take into said institution all such;
colored female minors under the age of eighteen years as shall .be taken
up and committed as street beggars or vagrants, or who shall be con-
victed of criminal offenses, or who shall be committed under the pro-
visions of article 4, Code of Public Local Laws, title "City of Balti-
more," sub-title "Vagrants"; but whenever any colored female under
the age of eighteen years shall be convicted in any of the courts of this
State of any offense, or of vagrancy, the judge of said court, in his dis-
cretion, and with reference to the character of the Industrial Home for
Colored Girls as a place of reform, and not of punishment, may order
the minor so convicted to be removed to and confined in the said Indus-
trial Home for Colored Girls.

Ibid. sec. 539. 1888, art. 27, sec. 380. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 7.

612. The board of managers shall have power to bind out girls com-
mitted to their care as apprentices until they reach 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 judgment of the
said managers will be most conducive to their reformation and advan-
tage; and the indentures by which said children shall be bound shall
contain the covenants, and shall be recorded as prescribed by this code ;-
and all the provisions of the code in relation to white apprentices shall
apply to apprentices bound under this section.

Ibid. sec. 540. 1888, art. 27, sec. 381. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 8.

613. The manner of receiving inmates into the Industrial Home
for Colored Girls shall be in either of the following modes, namely:
First—Colored girls under the age of eighteen may be committed by a
justice of the peace for the city of Baltimore or any of the counties of
this State on complaint and due proof made to him by the parent,
guardian or next friend of such girl that, by reason of incorrigible or
vicious conduct, such minor has rendered her control beyond the power
of such parent, guardian or next friend, and made it manifestly re-
quisite that from regard for the morals and future welfare of such'
minor and the peace and order of society, she should be placed under
the guardianship of the Industrial Home for Colored Girls. Second—
Colored girls under the age of eighteen years may be committed by the
authority aforesaid when complaint and due proof shall have been made
that such minor is a proper subject for the guardianship of the Indus-
trial Home for Colored Girls in consequence of vagrancy or of incor-
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