BALTIMORE CITY. 1099

Funds of Charitable Inntitutions. Are not liable to the payment of damages,
being regarded as trust funds, and as such not liable in an action for damages.

Turner v. Baltimore Humane and Impartial Society, Daily Record, December 17,
1901.

The Act of 1906, ch. 146, appropriated $50,000 for the Improvement of a tract
of land near Loch Raven, Baltimore County, by the erection of additional buildings
for the House of Refuge and the equipment of same. The Act of 1906, ch. 522,
appropriated a similar sum for a like purpose to St. Mary's Industrial School.

1908, ch. 132.

517A. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are further author-
ized and empowered to appropriate for repairs, permanent improvements
and additions to the buildings and grounds now used or hereafter to be
used by the Montrose School for Girls and its successor such additional
sum or sums of money as in their judgment shall from time to time be
required for those purposes.

1908, ch. 499.

517B. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are further author-
ized and empowered to appropriate for repairs, permanent improvements
and additions to the buildings and grounds now used or hereafter to be
used by the Saint Mary's Industrial School for Boys of the City of Bal-
timore and its successors, such additional sum or sums of money as in
their judgment shall from time to time be required for those purposes.

1910, ch. 169. 1916, ch. 269.

517C. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are further author-
ized and empowered to appropriate for the furtherance and support of
the prison reform and relief work of the Prisoners' Aid Association of
Maryland such sum or sums of money not exceeding the sum of five thou-
sand dollars per annum, as in their judgment shall from time to time be
required for those purposes; also such additional sum as, in their judg-
ment, may be necessary for the work of supervision of persons paroled
by the Criminal Courts of Baltimore City.

1914, ch. 520.

517D. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are further author-
ized and empowered to appropriate for repairs, permanent improvements
and additions to the buildings and grounds now used or hereafter to be
used by the National Junior Republic, and its successors, such additional
sum or sums of money as in their judgment shall from time to time be
required for those purposes; and the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more are further authorized and empowered to pay to the National Junior
Republic the sum of $500, carried forward on the books of the Comptroller
of Baltimore City to the credit of the National Junior Republic from the
appropriation in the Ordinance of Estimates for the year 1912 and a
like sum of $500, carried forward on the books of the Comptroller of Bal-
timore City from the appropriation to the National Junior Republic in
the Ordinance of Estimates for the year 1913, making a total of $1,000,
the said $1,000 being carried forward to bo paid to the National Junior