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corporation until they reach the age of eighteen years, or to bind them out
as apprentices until they reach the said age, as the directors of the said
corporation may elect.

An. Code, sec. 541. 1904, see. 478. 1888, sec. 322. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 2.

581. White females under the age of eighteen years may be committed
to the said House of the Good Shepherd by a justice of the peace for any of
the counties or the city of Baltimore on complaint and due proof made to
him by the parents, guardians or next friend of such minor that, by reason
of incorrigible or vicious conduct, such minor has rendered.her control be-
yond the power of such parents or guardian or next friend and made it mani-
festly requisite that, from regard to the morals and future welfare of such
minor and the peace and order of society, she should be placed under the
guardianship of the House of the Good Shepherd.

An. Code, sec. 542. 1904, sec. 479. 1888, sec. 323. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 3.

582. White females under the age of eighteen years may be committed
to the said House of the Good Shepherd by the authority aforesaid when
complaint and due proof have been made that such minor is a proper sub-
ject for the guardianship of the said corporation in consequence of vagrancy
or of incorrigible or vicious conduct and that, from the moral depravity or
otherwise of the parent, guardian or next friend in whose custody such
1 minor may be, such parent, guardian or next friend is unable or unwilling
to exercise the proper care and discipline over such incorrigible or vicious
minor.

An. Code, sec. 543. 1904, sec. 480. 1888, sec. 324. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 4.

583. The said corporation shall have power to bind out all minors
committed to their care, with the consent of such minors, ,as apprentices
during their minority, to such persons and places, within or out of this
State, and to learn such proper trades or employments, as in the judg-
ment of such managers will be most conducive to the reformation and the
future benefit and advantage of such children; and the indentures by which
children shall be bound shall contain the covenants, and shall be recorded
as prescribed by law ; and all the provisions of this code in relation to white
apprentices shall apply to apprentices bound under this section.

An. Code, sec. 544. 1904, sec. 481. 1888, sec. 325. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 5.

584. The directors of the said House of the Good Shepherd shall have
power to place all the females committed to their care at such employment
and cause them to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge as
may be suited to their years and capacities; and they shall have power to
classify the inmates of the refuge conducted by them and 'to make all such
useful rules and regulations as in their experience they shall from time to
time find necessary for the regulation and government of the same.

An. Code, sec. 545. 1904, sec. 482. 1888, sec. 326. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 6.

585. The said corporation shall have power to receive within the
refuge conducted by it all such females as may be committed to it by the