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such white male minor is not a proper charge against the said county or
the City of Baltimore, and such County Commissioners or the Mayor and
City Council of the City of Baltimore, shall notify the State Comptroller
that it is claimed that such white male minor is not a proper charge against
their county or the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, and shall claim
that the said white male minor is a proper charge against some other county
or the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, it shall be the duty of the
County Commissioners of each of said counties or the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore, as the case may be, to file such proofs as they may have
with the State Comptroller within thirty days from the time of such notifi-
cation and thereupon it shall be the duty of the State Comptroller to investi-
gate the question of the residence of such white male minor and to determine
of what county or the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, said white male
minor is a proper charge, and shall thereupon notify the said counties of
the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, of such determination and shall
notify the Board of Managers of the Maryland Training School for Boys,
and the State Comptroller, and the counties and City of Baltimore, as
aforesaid, shall thereafter treat and regard such white male minor as of
the county or city, as the case may be, according to the determination of
the State Comptroller, and if the State Comptroller shall find that such
white male minor is not a proper charge against any county or the City of
Baltimore, in the State, such white male minor shall thereafter be regarded
as a proper charge against the State at large.

An. Code, sec. 586. 1904, sec. 523. 1888, sec. 365. 1849, ch. 374, sec. 1. 1872, ch. 218.

618. The board of managers shall have power in their discretion to
take into said institution all such white male children as shall be taken
up and committed as street beggars or vagrants, or shall be convicted of
criminal offenses, or as hereinafter provided for in the case of application
of parents or guardians.

An. Code, sec. 587. 1904, sec. 524. 1888, sec. 366. 1849, ch. 374, sec. 1.

619. 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. 588. 1904, sec. 525. 1888, sec. 367. 1849, ch. 374, sec. 1. 1860, ch. 205, sec. 1.

1872, ch. 218.

620. The managers of the Maryland Training School for Boys shall
have power to bind out the white male children committed to their care,
with the consent of such children, as apprentices during their minority,
that is to say, until the age of twenty-one years, to such persons and places,
whether in or out of the State, and to learn such proper trades or employ-
ment 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 said children shall be bound shall contain the
covenants, and shall be recorded as prescribed by this code; and all the pro-