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collected, and the State Treasurer and the State Comptroller shall, upon
the first day of July and January, in each year, transfer the full amount
received from the counties and the City of Baltimore, under the provisions
of this Article, to the account of the Maryland Training School for Boys.
Taxes levied and collected in any county or the City of Baltimore for the
purpose named in this Article, shall be used to defray the expenses of the
white male minors committed to the Maryland Training School for Boys,
or paroled, and under the control of said school and shall not be diverted
to any other purpose, nor be transferred to any other fund by the State,
city or county authorities. Whenever the Board of Managers of the Mary-
land Training School for Boys holds a white male minor as from one county
or the City of Baltimore, or the County Commissioners of such county or
the Mayor and City Council of the City of Baltimore makes claim that
such white male minor is not a proper charge against the said county or
the City of Baltimore, and such County Commissioners or the Mayor and
City Council of the City of Baltimore, shall notify the State Comptroller
that it is claimed that such white male minor is not a proper charge against
their county or the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, and shall claim
that the said white male minor is a proper charge against some other county
or the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, it shall be the duty of the
County Commissioners of each of said counties or the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore, as the case may be, to file such proofs as they may have
with the State Comptroller within thirty days from the time of such notifi-
cation and thereupon it shall be the duty of the State Comptroller to investi-
gate the question of the residence of such white male minor and to determine
of what county or the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, said white male
minor is a proper charge, and shall thereupon notify the said counties or
the City of Baltimore, as the case may be, of such determination and shall
notify the Board of Managers of the Maryland Training School for Boys,
and the State Comptroller, and the counties and City of Baltimore, as
aforesaid, shall thereafter treat and regard such white male minor as of
the county or city, as the case may be, according to the determination of
the State Comptroller, and if the State Comptroller shall find that such
white male minor is not a proper charge against any county or the City of
Baltimore, in the State, such white male minor shall thereafter be regarded
as a proper charge against the State at large.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 618. 1912, sec. 586. 1904, sec. 523. 1888, sec. 365. 1849, ch. 374, sec. 1.

1872, ch. 218.

713. The board of managers shall have power in their discretion to
take into said institution all such white male children as shall be taken
up and committed as street beggars or vagrants, or shall be convicted of
criminal offenses, or as hereinafter provided for in the case of application
of parents or guardians.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 619. 1912, sec. 587. 1904, sec. 524. 1888, sec. 366. 1849, ch. 374, sec. 1.

714. They shall have power to place the children committed to their
care, during the minority of such children, at such employments, and cause
them to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge as may be
suited to their years and capacities.