CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. 1151

An. Code, sec. 548. 1904, sec. 485. 1888, sec. 329. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 9.

588. The judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, the president of
the board of police commissioners and the marshal of police of the city of
Baltimore shall, at such times as they think proper, visit and inspect the
said institution.

House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls.

An. Code, sec. 549. 1904, sec. 486. 1894, ch. 187, sec. 329A.

589. The House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls of the city of
Baltimore, organized under the general incorporation laws of this State,
for the purpose of affording a refuge to colored females who have had the
misfortune to lead an evil life and who wish to abandon their vicious course
and reform, such persons to be received without distinction of creed, age
or place of birth or residence, is declared to be a body corporate and politic
of this State for the purpose aforesaid, and is hereby, as to colored females,
vested with all such powers and charged with all such duties as have here-
tofore been conferred or charged by law as to white females on the House of
the Good Shepherd of the city of Baltimore.

. An. Code, sec. 550. 1904, sec. 487. 1894, ch. 187, sec. 329B.

590. All courts and justices of the peace are hereby authorized and
empowered to commit colored females to said corporation for like causes,
in like manner and for like terms as they are now by law authorized to
commit white females to the " House of Good Shepherd " of the city of
Baltimore, and the judge of the criminal court, the president of the board
of police commissioners and the marshal of police of the city of Baltimore
shall, at such times as they think proper, visit and inspect the said
institution.

House of Reformation.

An. Code, sec. 551. 1904, sec. 488. 1888, sec. 330. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 1. 1882, ch. 373.

591. The House of Reformation is a body politic and corporate, and
by that name and style shall have perpetual succession, with the power
to have a common seal and to change the same at pleasure; to make con-
tracts relative to said institution; to sue and be sued; and by that name and
style shall be capable of purchasing, taking, holding and conveying any
estate, real or personal, for the use of said corporation, and to establish
by-laws and orders for the regulation of said institution and the preserva-
tion and application of the funds thereof.

An. Code, sec. 552. 1904, sec. 489. 1888, sec. 331. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 2.

592. Every person who shall hereafter subscribe to the articles of said
association and pay to the funds of said institution the sum of fifty dollars,
or ten dollars annually for the term of six years, shall be a member for life,
and every person paying the sum of two dollars annually shall be a member
while he continues to contribute the said sum; such payment to be made
at the time and in the manner prescribed by the by-laws of said associa-
tion.