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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 unwilling
to exercise the proper care and discipline over such incorrigible or vicious
minor.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 583. 1912, sec. 543. 1904, sec. 480. 1888, sec. 324. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 4.

687. The said corporation shall have power to bind out all minors
committed to their care, with the consent of such minors, as apprentices
during their minority, to such persons and places, within or out of this
State, and to learn such proper trades or employments, as in the judg-
ment of such managers will be most conducive to the reformation and the
future benefit and advantage of such children; and the indentures by which
children shall be bound shall contain the covenants, and shall be recorded
as prescribed by law; and all the provisions of this code in relation to white
apprentices shall apply to apprentices bound under this section.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 584. 1914, sec. 544. 1904, sec. 481. 1888, sec. 325. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 5.

688. The directors of the said House of the Good Shepherd shall have
power to place all the females committe'd to their care at such employment
and cause them to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge .as
may be suited to their years and capacities; and they shall have power to
classify the inmates of the refuge conducted by them and to make all such
useful rules and regulations as in their experience they shall from time to
time find necessary for the regulation and government of the same.

An, Code, 1924, sec. 585. 1912, sec. 545. 1904, sec. 482. 1888, sec. 326. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 6.

689. The said corporation shall have power to receive within the
refuge conducted by it all such females as may be committed to it by the
criminal court of Baltimore, the circuit court for any county, or any justice
of the peace in the State of Maryland under the provisions hereinafter
contained and the same to retain within the said refuge for their several
terms of commitment; provided, however, that the directors of the said
corporation may, at any time prior to the expiration of her term of com-
mitment, discharge and release any female so committed to their care, on
being satisfied of her reformation.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 586. 1912, sec. 546. 1904, sec. 483. 1888, sec. 327. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 7.

690. The judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, or any judge of
any circuit court for any county, upon information that any female under
the age of eighteen years in their several counties or the city of Baltimore,
as the case may be, leads a disorderly and dissolute course of life, may,
upon application of the parent or next friend of such female, issue a war-
rant or order to be directed to the sheriff or to any constable or police
officer in such county or city, commanding him to bring the person against
whom the information is so given before said court or said justice on any
day to be named therein not more than one week from the date of the
warrant, to answer to said charge; and the said court or said justice upon
proof of said charge may commit such female to the said House of the Good
Shepherd of the city of Baltimore for not less than one week nor more
than two months for the first occasion, and not less than one month nor more
than six months for the second or any subsequent occasion; provided, how-