1166 ARTICLE 27.

release such girl on parole as soon as a suitable home has been found for
her. And no home shall be deemed suitable which does not conform to the
religious faith of the girl unless there be written consent from her religious
instructor...One or more women shall be employed as visiting parole agents
to investigate homes, visit girls on parole and make such other investiga-
tions as may be deemed needful by the Superintendent. It shall be the
duty of the Superintendent to recall any girl who may not conduct herself
properly while she is on parole or whose home has not been found suitable.

An. Code, sec. 605. 1914, ch. 843, sec. 10.

643. There is hereby appropriated out of the Treasury of the State of
Maryland, the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for the purpose of
carrying on work and investigation preliminary to the establishment of
said institution; and said corporation is hereby directed to report the result
of said findings to the Governor of Maryland, and by him to be trans-
mitted to the General Assembly of Maryland at its session in 1916.

Industrial Home for Colored Girls.

An. Code, sec. 606. 1904, sec. 533. 1888, sec. 374. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 1.

644. The Industrial Home for Colored Girls is a body corporate and
politic and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession with
power to have and use a common seal and to change the same at pleasure;
to make contracts 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 real estate or personal property, or receiving the same by
gift, deed, will or bequest or otherwise for the use of the corporation, and
to establish by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of said in-
stitution and the preservation and application of the funds thereof, and
may appoint such officers, agents and servants as they may deem proper to
transact the business of the said corporation and designate and prescribe
their duties. The special object of the said Industrial Home for Colored
Girls shall be the care, reformation and instruction of colored female
minors who shall be admitted or committed to the care and supervision
thereof as hereinafter provided.

An. Code, sec. 607. 1904, sec. 534. 1888, sec. 375. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 2.

645. Every person who shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars or
more into the treasury of said institution at one time shall be an honorary
life director thereof, and every person who shall contribute the sum of
fifty dollars shall be a life member thereof, and every person who con-
tributes the sum of five dollars or more annually shall be a member thereof
while he or she continues to contribute said sum, and all the said parties
so contributing shall be entitled to vote at the annual election for managers
and have the right to participate in all meetings of the members of the said
institution.

An. Code, sec. 608. 1904, sec. 535. 1888, sec. 376. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 3.

646. The property and concerns of the said corporation shall be man-
aged by a board of managers consisting of eleven persons, two of whom