500 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

to receive, take charge of and retain and to bind out as apprentices dur-
ing minority to learn such useful trades or callings as such minors,
with the approval of said corporation may select, all such white male
minors of either of the descriptions aforesaid as are now or shall here-
after be in the charge of said corporation by virtue of any such commit-
ments by any justice of the peace heretofore or hereafter made.

1904, art. 27, sec. 547. 1888, art. 27, sec. 388. 1882, ch. 72, sec. 3.

620. The St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys of the City of Bal-
timore is authorized to sell, mortgage, exchange, dispose of and convey
all or any part of such property and estate, real, personal or mixed, as
it now has or may hereafter acquire under any powers conferred on it
by law.

National Junior Republic.

1910, ch. 732 (p. 99), sec. 547A.

621. The National Junior Republic is empowered to receive in and
under its care, custody, guardianship and control any and all white
minors, under the age of twenty-one years, who may now or hereafter
be lawfully received by or committed to any of the juvenile institutions
or societies under the laws of this State, with the right to exercise such
authority over said minors; and with such powers as to their retention,
returning, placing out and otherwise as may now or hereafter be pre-
scribed by the laws of this State with respect to juvenile institutions
and societies.

1910, ch. 732 (p. 99), sec. 547B.

622.* The said National Junior Republic shall also be empowered
to receive, in and under its care, custody, guardianship and control,
any and all such white minors under the age of twenty-one years, as
may be committed to it by any Court or Justice of the Peace of this
State, and any Court or Justice of this State shall have power and
authority in its or his discretion to commit to said Republic any white
minor, under the age of twenty-one years who may be convicted before
such Court or Justice of the Peace of any crime, misdemeanor or
offense under or against any law or laws of this State, and with respect'
to minors so committed, the said Republic shall have the right to exer-
cise such authority, and shall have such power as to their retention,
returning, placing out and otherwise as may now or hereafter be pre-
scribed by the Laws of this State for Juvenile institutions and societies,
with respect to minors committed to them under the laws of this State.

*Chapter 732 as it appears in the official acts of 1910 (page 99) does not
include section 547B. The original act as passed and signed by the Governor,
however, includes section 547B, and hence it is codified.