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ever, that in every case so brought before the criminal court of Baltimore
or the circuit court for any county the trial shall be by jury, if demanded
by the party charged; and if in any case brought as aforesaid before any
justice of the peace the party charged shall demand a jury trial, the said
justice shall certify said case to the criminal court of Baltimore, or the
circuit court for the county, as the case may be, to be proceeded with and
tried by said court in the same manner as if the case had been originally
brought before said court; and such court or justice may commit said
person, in the absence of suitable bail, to the said House of the Good Shep-
herd instead of the common jail, pending the said charge.

An. Code, 1924, sec: 587. 1912, sec. 547. 1904, sec. 484. 1888, sec. 328. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 8.

691. The directors of the said House of the Good Shepherd in the
city of Baltimore shall annually report to the governor of this State a full
account of the operations of the sai'd corporation; and the comptroller of
the State shall semi-annually on the first day of January and July draw his
warrant on the treasurer to the order of the president of the said corporation
for an amount at the rate of twenty cents per diem for each of the average
number of females committed by any court or justice of the peace, as here-
inbefore provided, who shall have been in the said institution during the
preceding six months; and the sum of two thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the said twenty
cents per day out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 588. 1912, sec. 548. 1904, sec. 485. 1888, sec. 329. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 9.

692. The judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, the Police Com-
missioner and the Police Inspector of the city of Baltimore shall, at such
times as they think proper, visit and inspect the said institution.

House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 589. 1912, sec. 549. 1904, sec. 486. 1894, ch. 187, sec. 329A.

693. The House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls of the city of
Baltimore, organized under the general incorporation laws of this State,
for the purpose of affording a refuge to colored females who have had the
misfortune to lead an evil life and who wish to abandon their vicious course
and reform, such persons to be received without distinction of creed, age
or place of birth or residence, is declared to be a body corporate and politic
of this State for the. purpose aforesaid, and is hereby, as to colored females,
vested with all such powers and charged with all such duties as have here-
tofore been conferred or charged by law as to white females on the House of
the Good Shepherd of the city of Baltimore.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 590. 1912, sec. 550. 1904, sec. 487. 1894, ch. 187, sec. 329B.

694. All courts and justices of the peace are hereby authorized and
empowered to commit colored females to said corporation for like causes,
in like manner and for like terms as they are now by law authorized to
commit white females to the "House of Goo'd Shepherd" of the city of
Baltimore, and the judge of the criminal court, the Police Commissioner
and the Police Inspector of the city of Baltimore shall, at such times as
they think proper, visit and inspect the said institution.