498. CEIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

rigible or vicious conduct and that from the moral depravity or other-
wise of the parent, guardian or next friend, in whose custody such
minor may be, such parent, guardian or next friend is unable or un-
willing to exercise the proper care and discipline over such incorrigible
or vicious minor. Third—Such colored girls under the age of eighteen
years as their parents, guardians or friends may desire to place therein
for temporary restraint and discipline, and whose parents, guardians or
friends shall agree and contract with the managers for their support
and maintenance. Fourth—Such colored girls under the age of eighteen
as may be committed by the several courts of this State; provided, how-
ever, that the said board of managers shall have the right and power to
refuse admission to any such female if, in their judgment, they may be
unable to take proper care of them by reason of disease or other cause,
or, having received them, to discharge or return them to their parents,
or send them to the almshouses of the several counties, or other institu-
tions, wherein they had their last residences, respectively, if, in the
opinion of the board of managers, the interests of the inmates of the
institution demand and require it.

1904, art. 27, sec. 541. 1888, art. 27, sec. 382. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 9.

614. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are authorized and
empowered to appropriate annually towards the current expenses, or
for the benefit of the Industrial Home for Colored Girls, any sum of
money they may deem proper.

Ibid. sec. 542. 1888, art. 27, sec. 383. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 10.

615. The board of managers shall make a report to the general
assembly at each regular session thereof of the number of colored girls
received by them into said institution; the disposition made of them
by instructing or employing them therein or by binding them out as
apprentices; the receipts and expenditures of said managers, and gen-
erally all such facts and particulars as may tend to exhibit the effects,
whether beneficial or otherwise, of the said institution.

St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys.

Ibid. sec. 543. 1888, art. 27, see. 384. 1867, ch. 402, 1874, ch. 288.

616. St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys of the City of Baltimore
is empowered to receive in charge such orphan and other destitute boys
as may be committed to the charge of said body corporate and to bind
out such boys until they shall attain the age of twenty-one years; and
any court or justice of the peace of this State shall have power and
authority, in the discretion of the judge of such court or such justice,
to commit to the charge of said institution any destitute white boy, or
any white boy convicted before such court or justice of any offense
against any law or laws of this State; provided, that the parent or
guardian of said boy or boys shall request that they be committed to
the St. Mary's Industrial School; in all such cases the board of man-