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pany of reputed thieves or prostitutes, or houses of assignation or pros-
titution, or dancehouses, concert saloons, varieties, or places specified in
section 881 hereof, without a parent or guardian, shall be arrested and
brought before a Court or Justice of the Peace. When,1 upon examina-
tion before a Court or Justice of the Peace it shall appear that any such
child has been engaged in any of the aforesaid acts, or comes within any
of the aforesaid descriptions, such Court of Justice, when he shall deem
expedient for the welfare of the child, shall commit such child to an
orphan asylum, charitable or other institute, or make such other disposi-
tion thereof as now is or may hereafter be provided by law in case of
Vagrants, truant, disorderly, pauper or destitute children; provided, how-
ever, that none of the provisions of this sub-division of this Article shall
be construed so as to prevent children from selling or offering for sale
newspapers.

1878, ch. 473. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 897. 1888, ch. 123, sec. 884.

884. Any person representing himself or herself to be, or passing him-
self or herself off as the parent or guardian of a child or children referred
to in any of the aforesaid sections of this sub-division of this Article,
when it shall appear that such person is not either the parent or guardian
of said child, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon con-
viction by any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined not more
than twenty dollars and costs for each and every offence.

BOYS' HOME.

1874, ch. 68. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 898. 1888, ch. 123, sec. 885.

885. The special objects and purposes of the Boys' Home Society shall
be to shelter and protect destitute and homeless boys, to furnish them
with food, raiment and lodging, to stimulate them to honest efforts to
earn a livelihood, to instruct them after working hours in moral and
religious truths and in the rudiments of education, to aid and encourage
them out of vagrancy and ignorance, to raise them up into a better life
of virtue, industry and usefulness, and generally to stand in the relation
of parent to such homeless boys.

ST. MARTHA'S EPISCOPAL HOUSE.

1898, ch, 151.

885A. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore is authorized and
empowered to appropriate annually the sum of five hundred dollars to
pay for the conduct and management of Saint Martha's Episcopal House,
in the City of Baltimore.

JUVENILE INSTITUTIONS.

1874, ch. 68. P. L. L. (1888), Art. 4, sec. 899. 1888, ch. 123, sec. 886. 1900, ch. 742.

886. The Boys' Home, the Dolan Children's Aid Society, the Hebrew -
Orphan Asylum, the Home of the Friendless, St. Vincent's Orphan Asy-