1168 ARTICLE 27.

An. Code, sec. 612. 1904, sec. 539. 1888, sec. 380. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 7.

650. The board of managers shall have power to bind out girls com-
mitted to their care as apprentices until they reach the age of eighteen
years to such persons and places, whether in or out of this State, and to
learn such proper trades or employments as in the judgment of the said
managers will be most conducive to their reformation and advantage; 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-
visions of the code in relation to white apprentices shall apply to appren-
tices bound under this section.

An. Code, sec. 613. 1904, sec. 540. 1888, sec. 381. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 8.

651. The manner of receiving inmates into the Industrial Home for
Colored Girls shall be in either of the following modes, namely: First—
Colored girls under the age of eighteen may be committed by a justice
of the peace for the city of Baltimore or any of the counties of this State
on complaint and due proof made to him by the parent, guardian or next
friend of such girl that, by reason of incorrigible or vicious conduct, such
minor has rendered her control beyond the power of such parent, guardian
or next friend, and made it manifestly requisite that from regard for the
morals and future welfare of such minor and the peace and order of society,
she should be placed under the guardianship of the Industrial Home for
Colored Girls. Second—Colored girls under the age of eighteen years may
be committed by the authority aforesaid when complaint and due proof
shall have been made that such minor is a proper subject for the guardian-
ship of the Industrial Home for Colored Girls 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 unwill-
ing to exercise the proper care and discipline over such incorrigible or
vicious minor. Third—Such colored girls under the age of eighteen years
as their parents, guardians or friends may desire to place therein for tem-
porary restraint and discipline, and whose parents, guardians or friends
shall agree and contract with the managers for their support and mainte-
nance. Fourth—Such colored girls under the age of eighteen as may be
committed by the several courts of this State; provided, however, that the
said board of managers shall have the right and power to refuse admission
to any such female if, in their judgment, they may be unable to take proper
care of them by reason of disease or other cause, or, having received them,
to discharge or return them to their parents, or send them to the- alms-
houses of the several counties, or other institutions, wherein they had their
last residences, respectively, if, in the opinion of the board of managers,
the interests of the inmates of the institution demand and require it.

An. Code, sec. 614. 1904, sec. 541. 1888, sec. 382. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 9.

652. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are authorized and
empowered to appropriate annually towards the current expenses, or for
the benefit of the Industrial Home for Colored Girls, any sum of money
they may deem proper.