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calendar year, subject to a rebate for any proportionate part of a quarter.
And the Board of County Commissioners of each county and the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore City are hereby authorized and required to
levy annually upon the assessable property in each of sai'd counties and
said city, respectively, a sum sufficient to cover the obligations imposed
upon said city and counties under the provisions of this sub-title, the said
sums to be levied and collected in the same manner as other taxes.

1931, ch. 367, sec. 660F.

734. The Board of Managers of the Maryland Training School for
Colored Girls shall have power to place colored female minors committed
to said institution, during the minority of such minors, at such employ-
ments, and cause them to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge
as may be suited to their years and capacities. Whenever the said Board
shall deem it for the best interest of any girl committed to said institu-
tion, it shall have power to authorize the Superintendent to release such
girl on parole upon such terms and conditions as the said Board shall
prescribe, and the said Board shall also have power to cancel or revoke any
such parole and require any girl affected thereby to return to the institu-
tion whenever it shall appear that the girl has violated any of the con-
ditions of her parole.

1931, ch. 367, sec. 660G.

735. The Board of Managers of the Maryland Training School for
Colored Girls shall exercise their functions as a part of the Department of
Education, and under the general supervision of the State Superintendent
of Schools, in like manner as the Maryland Training School for Boys,
as provided by Article 41, Section 142.

St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 654. 1912, sec. 616. 1904, sec. 543. 1888, sec. 384. 1867, ch. 402.

1874, ch. 288.

736. St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys of the City of Baltimore
is empowered to receive in charge such orphan and other destitute boys as
may be committed to the charge of said body corporate and to bind out such
boys until they shall attain the age of twenty-one years; and any court or
justice of the peace of this State shall have power and authority, in the
discretion of the judge of such court or such justice, to commit to the charge
of said institution any destitute white boy, or any white boy convicted
before such court or justice of any offense against any law or laws of this
State; provided, that the parent or guardian of said boy or boys shall re-
quest that they be committed to the St. Mary's Industrial School; in all
such cases the board of managers shall have power, in their discretion, to
take into said institution all such white boys under sixteen years of age as
shall be taken up and committed as street beggars or vagrants, or shall be
convicted of criminal offenses.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 655. 1912, sec. 617. 1904, sec. 544. 1888, sec. 385. 1908, ch. 35.

737. The said corporation may possess and hold property not exceed-
ing the value five hundred thousand dollars. The Governor of the State of
Maryland and the Mayor of the city of Baltimore shall each appoint, every
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