1160 ARTICLE 27.

visions of this code in relation to white apprentices shall apply to ap-
prentices bound under this section.

An. Code, sec. 589. 1904, sec. 526. 1888, sec. 368. 1849, ch, 374, sec. 2. 1856, ch. 288, sec. 2.
1860, ch. 205, sec. 2. 1872, ch. 218.

621. The manner of receiving inmates into the institution shall be
in either of the following modes, namely: first, white male minors may be
committed by a justice of the peace for any of the counties or city of Balti-
more, 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 control beyond the power of such parent,
guardian or next friend, and made it manifestly requisite that from re-
gard for the morals and future welfare of such minor and the peace and
Order of society he should be placed under the guardianship of the Mary-
land Training School for Boys. Second, white male 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
Maryland Training School for Boys, in consequence of vagrancy, or of
incorrigible or vicious conduct, and that from the moral depravity or other-
wise 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 ex-
ercise the proper care and discipline over such incorrigible or vicious minor.
Third, such white male children as their parents, guardians or friends may
desire to place therein for temporary restraint and discipline, and where
parents, guardians or friends shall agree and contract with the managers
for their support and maintenance; and fourth, white male minors com-
mitted by the several courts in this State as provided in sections 618
and 623.

The power conferred upon the managers of House of Refuge (now Md. Training
School for Boys) by this section is in nowise in conflict with Declaration of Rights
or Constitution of Maryland. Roth v. House of Refuge, 31 Md. 334.

An. Code, sec. 590. 1904, sec. 527. 1888, sec. 369. 1849, ch. 374, sec. 3.

622. 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 dif-
ferent witnesses examined before him and the substance of the testimony
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. 591. 1904, sec. 528. 1888, sec. 370. 1849, ch. 374, sec. 4. 1856, ch. 288, sec. 2.

1872, ch. 218.

623. Whenever any white male minor, under the age of sixteen years,
shall be convicted of felony in any court of this State, the judge of said
court in his discretion, and with reference to the character of the Mary-
land Training School for Boys as a place of reform and not of punishment,
may order said minor so convicted to be removed to and confined in the
said Maryland Training School for Boys; provided, that in all cases no