ART. 27] ST. MARY'S INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. 499

agers shall have power, in their discretion, to take into said institution
all such white boys under sixteen years of age as shall be taken up and
committed as street beggars or vagrants, or shall be convicted of crimi-
nal offenses.

1904, art. 27, sec. 544. 1888, art. 27, sec. 385. 1908, ch. 35.

617. The said corporation may possess and hold property not ex-
ceeding in value five hundred thousand dollars. The Governor of the
State of Maryland and the Mayor of the city of Baltimore shall each
appoint, every two years, five persons to represent said State and city,
respectively, in the board of trustees of said institution.

The fact that the Governor of the state and the mayor of Baltimore
each appoint every two years three persons to represent the state and city
in the board of trustees of Saint Mary's Industrial School for Boys in no
manner changes the nature of the institution, or makes it a municipal
agency. Such trustees do not control the institution nor are they clothed
with any state or municipal authority beyond their mere appointment; they
cannot be controlled in the exercise of the powers and duties of their office.
Saint Mary's School is entirely separate from and independent of the City
of Baltimore in all corporate action and control. Saint Mary's School v.
Brown, 45 Md. 329.

Ibid. sec. 545. 1888, art. 27, sec. 386. 1867, ch. 402.

618. The board of trustees may, from time to time, make such by-
laws, ordinances and regulations relative to the management, govern-
ment, instruction, discipline, employment and disposition of the minors
in said institution, not contrary to law, and establish such regulations
respecting the religious and moral education, training, employment,
discipline and safe keeping of its inmates, as may be deemed expedient
and proper.

Ibid. sec. 546. 1888, art. 27, sec. 387. 1882, ch. 72, sec. 2.

619. In addition to the classes of minors who may be committed to
said St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys of the City of Baltimore,
any justice of the peace of this State may commit to the care of said
corporation every such white male minor as on complaint of any parent,
guardian or next friend in whose custody such minor may be, and on
proof taken before such justice, shall be adjudged by such justice to be
a proper subject for commitment to said institution by reason of the
incorrigible or vicious conduct of such minor, and because of such
incorrigible or vicious conduct to be beyond the control of such parent,
guardian or next friend; and any justice of the peace may commit to
the care and custody of said corporation any white male minor whom
said justice, on complaint and due proof, shall deem a proper subject to
be committed to said institution because of incorrigible or vicious con-
duct; provided, the said justice shall be satisfied, on proof taken before
him, that the parent, guardian or next friend, in whose charge or cus-
tody such minor may be, is, because of moral depravity or otherwise,
unable or unwilling to exercise proper care or discipline over such
minor; and the said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered