154 REFUGE—HOUSE OF. [ART. 78.

13. That the ground and the buildings which may be erected thereon, for said
house of reformation and instruction shall be free of tax.

14. That no public streets, lanes, alleys, roads, railroads or canals of any kind,
shall be opened through the lands or any part of the lands, of the house of reforma-
tion and instruction where the same are exclusively used or appropriated for the
purposes of its incorporation, except with the consent of the board of managers.

15. That the board of managers shall have power, in their discretion, to take into
said house all such colored children as shall be taken up and committed as street
beggars or vagrants, or shall be convicted of criminal offences, or as hereinafter
provided for, in the case of application of parents or guardians.

16. That 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

17. That the managers of the house of reformation and instruction shall have
power to bind out the children committed to their care, with the consent of such
children, as apprentices, during their minority, that is to say, males until the age
of twenty-one years and the females until the age of eighteen years, to such persons
and places, whether in or out of this state, and to learn such proper trades or em-
ployments, as in the judgment of the said managers will be most conducive to the
reformation and the future benefit and advantage of such children ; and the inden-
tures by which such children shall be bound shall contain the covenants and shall
be recorded as prescribed by Article sixth of the code, and all the provisions of the
said Article in relation to white apprentices shall apply to apprentices bound under
this section.

18. That the manner of receiving inmates into the house of reformation and in-
struction shall be in either of the following modes, namely: First, colored minors
may be committed by a justice of the peace for any of the counties or the city ot
Baltimore, on complaint and due proof made to him by the parent, guardian or next
friend of such minor, that by reason of incorrigible or vicious conduct such minor
has rendered his or her control beyond the power of such parent, guardian or next
friend, and made it manifestly requisite, that from regard to the morals and future
welfare of such minor, and the peace and order of society, he or she should be placed
under the guardianship of the house of reformation and instruction; second, colored
minors may be committed by the authority aforesaid, when complaint and due proof
have been made that such minor is a proper subject for the guardianship of the
house of reformation and instruction in consequence of vagrancy 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, guar-
dian or next friend is incapable or unwilling to exercise the proper care and disci-
pline over such incorrigible or vicious minor; third, such children as their parents
guardians or friends may desire to place therein for temporary restraint and disci-
pline, and whose parents, guardians or friends shall agree and contract with the
managers for their support and maintenance, and fourth, minors committed by the
several courts in this state, as provided in this Article; and the annual sum of five
thousand dollars shall be appropriated out of any unappropriated moneys in the
treasury for the aid and benefit of the house of reformation and instruction for the
period of two years.

19. That the treasurer of the state shall upon the warrant of the comptroller, pay
to the managers of the house of reformation and instruction, or as they shall order
and direct, the sum appropriated in the preceding section in equal quarterly instal-
ments of twelve hundred and fifty dollars each. But before the comptroller shall
issue bis warrant for the first quarterly payment hereby provided for, he shall re-
quire the managers of the house of reformation and instruction to furnish satisfac-