1150 ARTICLE 27.

criminal court of Baltimore, the circuit court for any county, or any justice
of the peace in the State of Maryland under the provisions hereinafter
contained and the same to retain within the said refuge for their several
terms of commitment; provided, however, that the directors of the said
corporation may, at any time prior to the expiration of her term of com-
mitment, discharge and release any female so committed to their care, on
being satisfied of her reformation.

An. Code, sec. 546. 1904, sec. 483. 1888, sec. 327. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 7.

586. The judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, or any judge of
any circuit court for any county, upon information that any female under
the age of eighteen years in their several counties or the city of Baltimore,
as the case may be, leads a disorderly and dissolute course of life, may,
upon application of the parent or next friend of such female, issue a war-
rant or order to be directed to the sheriff or to any constable or police
officer in such county or city, commanding him to bring the person against
whom the information is so given before said court or said justice on any
day to be named therein not more than one week from the date of the
warrant, to answer to said charge; and the said court or said justice upon
proof of said charge may commit such female to the said House of the Good
Shepherd of the city of Baltimore for not less than one week nor more
than two months for the first occasion, and not less than one month nor more
than six months for the second or any subsequent occasion; provided, how-
ever, that in every case so brought before the criminal court of Baltimore
or the circuit court for any county the trial shall be by jury, if demanded
by the party charged; and if in any case brought as aforesaid before any
justice of the peace the party charged shall demand a jury trial, the said
justice shall certify said case to the criminal court of Baltimore, or the
circuit court for the county, as the case may be, to be proceeded with and
tried by said court in the same manner as if the case had been originally
brought before said court; and such court or justice may commit said
person, in the absence of suitable bail, to the said House of the Good Shep-
herd'instead of the common jail, pending the said charge.

An. Code, sec. 547. 1904, sec. 484. 1888, sec. 328. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 8.

587. The directors of the said House of the Good Shepherd in the
city of Baltimore shall annually report to the governor of this State a full
account of the operations of the said corporation; and the comptroller of
the State shall semi-annually on the first day of January and July draw his
warrant on the treasurer to the order of the president of the said corporation
for an amount at the rate of twenty cents per diem for each of the average
number of females committed by any court or justice of the peace, as here-
inbefore provided, who shall have been in the said institution during the
preceding six months; and the sum of two thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the said twenty
cents per day out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.