ART. 4. ] CITY OF BALTIMORE.

twenty-one years in the case of males, as apprentices
to learn any trade or business, or in the case of the
female also to learn to be useful in housewifery, or
may, under terms proper in view of the said managers
and to be by them stipulated, place them for adoption,
or as inmates with any families or persons; and the
said corporation, in the exercise of any of the powers
vested in them in this section, or binding or placing
out said minors, shall not be limited to places within
the state.

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926. If any parent or guardian, or any judge of the
orphans' court of Baltimore city, or any justice of the
peace for said city, shall place under the care and con-
trol of the home of the friendless any child, whether
male or female, under the age of eighteen years, of the
description of children hereinbefore mentioned, or as
suffering through the extreme indigence or vagrancy,
or bad habits, or neglect of parents, or from cruelty of
intemperate parents, or as being illegitimate, or chil-
dren of persons out of the state, without sufficient sus-
tenance, the said corporation and the managers thereof
shall hold and control such children, with power to
bind or place them out as hereinbefore provided.

Power of mana-
gers over chil-
dren.

927. Any constable or police officer of said city, upon
application of any manager of the home of the friend-
less, or of his own accord, may carry before any judge
of the orphans' court for said city, or any justice of the
peace, any child of the description mentioned in the
preceding section, to be dealt with as therein provided.

Approved and in force April 7, 1870.

WATER.

Constable, &c,
may take child
before orphans'
court, &c., for
commitment.