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of Reformation, the disposition which shall be made of such minors by
instructing or employing them therein or by binding them out as appren-
tices, the receipts and expenditures of said managers, and generally all such
facts and particulars as may tend to exhibit the effects, whether beneficial or
otherwise, of the said association.

An. Code, sec. 561. 1904, sec. 498. 1888, sec. 340. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 11.

601. The treasurer, before he shall enter upon the duties of his office,
shall give bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars for the faithful
discharge of the duties of his office.

An. Code, sec. 562. 1904, sec. 499. 1888, sec. 341. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 12.

602. The board of managers shall provide a suitable building in any
part of the State of Maryland 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.

An. Code, sec. 563. 1904, sec. 500. 1888, sec. 342. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 13.

603. The ground and the buildings which may be erected thereon for
said House of Reformation shall be free of tax.

An. Code, sec. 564. 1904, sec. 501. 1888, sec. 343. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 14.

604. No public streets, lanes, alleys, roads, railroads or canals of any
kind shall be opened through the lands, or any part of the lands of the
House of Reformation, where the same are exclusively used or appropriated
for the purposes of its incorporation, except with the consent of the board
of managers.

An. Code, sec. 565. 1904, sec. 502. 1888, sec. 344. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 15. 1882, ch. 247.

605. The board of managers of the House of Reformation shall have
power, in their discretion, to take into said house all such colored boys as
shall be taken up and committed as street beggars or vagrants, or for incor-
rigible or vicious conduct, or shall be convicted for criminal offenses, or as
hereinafter provide'd for in the case of application of parents or guardians.

An. Code, sec. 566. 1904, sec. 503. 1888, sec. 345. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 16.

606. They shall have power to place the children committed to their
care, during the minority of such children, at such employments, and cause
them to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge as may be suited
to their years and capacities.

An. Code, sec. 567. 1904, sec. 504. 1888, sec. 346. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 17.

607. The managers of the House of Reformation shall have power to
bind out the children committed to their care, with the consent of such
children, as apprentices during their minority; that is to say, males until
the age of twenty-one years and females until the age of eighteen years, to
such persons and places, whether in or out of this State, and to learn such
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