1170 ARTICLE .27.

An. Code, sec. 619. 1904, sec. 546. 1888, sec. 387. 1882, ch. 72, sec. 2.

657. In addition to the classes of minors who may be committed to said
St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys of the City of Baltimore, any jus-
tice of the peace of this State may commit to the care of said corporation
every such white male minor as on complaint of any parent, guardian or
next friend in whose custody such minor may be, and on proof taken before
such justice, shall be adjudged by such justice to be a proper subject for
commitment to said institution by reason of the incorrigible or vicious
conduct of such minor, and because of such incorrigible or vicioifs conduct
to be beyond the control of such parent, guardian or next friend; and any
justice of the peace may commit to the care and custody of said corpora-
tion any white male minor whom said justice, on complaint and due proof,
shall deem a proper subject to be committed to said institution because of
incorrigible or vicious conduct; provided, the said justice shall be satis-
fied, on proof taken before him, that the parent, guardian or next friend,
in whose charge or custody such minor may be, is, because of moral de-
pravity or otherwise, unable or unwilling to exercise proper care or disci-
pline over such minor; and the said corporation is hereby authorized and
empowered to receive, take charge of and retain and to bind out as ap-
prentices during minority to learn such useful trades or callings as such
minors, with the approval of said corporation may select, all such white
male minors of either of the descriptions aforesaid as are now or shall
hereafter be in the charge of said corporation by virtue of any such commit-
ments by any justice of the peace heretofore or hereafter made.

An. Code, sec. 620. 1904, sec. 547. 1888, sec. 388. 1882, ch. 72, sec. 3.

658. The St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys- of the City of Balti-
more is authorized to sell, mortgage, exchange, dispose of and convey all
or any part of such property and estate, real, personal or mixed, as it now
has or may hereafter acquire under any powers conferred on it by law.

National Junior Republic.

An. Code, sec. 621. 1910, ch. 732 (p. 99), sec. 547A.

659. The National Junior Republic is empowered to receive in and
under its care, custody, guardianship and control any and all white minors,
under the age of twenty-one years, who may now or hereafter be lawfully
received by or committed to any of the juvenile institutions or societies
under the laws of this State, with the right to exercise such authority
over said minors; and with such powers as to their retention, returning,
placing out and otherwise as may now or hereafter be prescribed by the
laws of this State with respect to juvenile institutions and societies.

An. Code, sec. 622. 1910, ch. 732 (p. 99), sec. 547B.

660.1 The said National Junior Republic shall also be empowered to
receive, in and under its care, custody, guardianship and control, any and

1 Ch. 732 as it appears in the official acts of 1910 (page 99) does not include sec. 547B.
The original act as passed and signed by the Governor, however, includes sec. 547B,
and hence it is codified.