170 ARTICLE 27.

child; but if the Board of Welfare, in its judgment, decides that it will
not be for the best interest of the child to be returned, to the institution with
its mother, then, upon proof being furnished by the father or other relatives
of their ability properly to care for and maintain such child, the said Board
shall order that the child be given into the care and custody of the father
or other relative, who shall thereafter care for and maintain the same at
his. or her own expense until the release of the mother of such child or
until such child shall have been duly adopted as provided by law. If it
shall appear that the father or other relative is unable properly to care for
and maintain such child, the Board of Welfare shall place the child in the
care of the officer exercising power of a Superintendent of the Poor of the
county from which said inmate was committed as a proper charge upon
such county, or in the care of any charitable organization willing to provide
for the child; or in case the mother of the child was a resident of Baltimore
City, then in that event, the child shall be placed in the care of the Henry
Watson Children's Aid Society or the Saint Vincent's Infant Asylum.

696.

This section referred to in passing upon functions of grand jury; criticism of
public officials; power exceeded. In re Report of Grand Jury, 152 Md. 623.

700.

This section held not to have affected art. 57, sec. 11, or to have changed the
time within which misdemeanors may be prosecuted. Conspiracy. Evidence.
Archer v. State, 145 Md. 136..