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proper trades or employments as in the judgment of the said managers will
be most conducive to the reformation and the future benefit and advantage
of such children; and the indentures by which such children shall be bound
shall contain the covenants and shall be recorded as prescribed by law; and
all the provisions of the code in relation to white apprentices shall apply
to apprentices bound under this section.

An. Code, sec. 568. 1904, sec. 505. 1888, sec. 347. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 18.

608. The manner of receiving inmates into the House of Reformation
shall be in either of the following modes, namely; first, colored minors may
be committed 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 parent,
guardian or next friend of such minor, that, by reason of incorrigible or
vicious conduct such minor has rendered his or her control beyond the power
of such parent, guardian or next friend and made it manifestly requisite
that, from regard to the morals and future welfare of such minor, and the
peace and order of society he or she should be placed under the guardian-
ship of the House of Reformation; second, colored minors may be com-
mitted by the authority aforesaid, when complaint and due proof have
been made that such minor is a proper subject for the guardianship of the
House of Reformation 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 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; third, such
children as their parents, guardians or friends may desire to place therein
for temporary restraint and discipline, and whose parents, guardians or
friends shall agree and contract with the managers for their support and
maintenance; and fourth, minors committed by the several courts in this
State, as provided in sections 605 and 610.

An. Code, sec. 569. 1904, sec. 506. 1888, sec. 348. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 20.

609. It shall be the duty of the justice of the peace when committing a
vagrant or incorrigible or vicious minor, under the preceding section, in
addition to the commitment, to annex the names and residences of the
different witnesses examined before him and the substance of the testi-
mony given by them, respectively, on which the adjudication was founded;
and the same duty shall be performed by the clerk of any court, the judge
whereof shall make such commitment.

An. Code, sec. 570. 1904, sec. 507. 1888, sec. 349. 1870, ch. 392, sec. 21. 1882, ch. 382.

610. Whenever any colored minor under the age of sixteen years shall
be convicted before any court or justice of the peace of any felony or other
offense against any law or laws of this State, the judge of said court or
said justice, in his discretion, and with reference to the character of said
institution as a place of reform and not of punishment, may order said
minor so convicted to be removed to and confined in the said House of