ART. 74.] PLACES OF IMPRISONMENT AND REFORMATION.

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First, colored minors may be committed by a justice of the peace for
any of the counties, or the city of 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 guardian-

First class.

ship of the House of Reformation and Instruction; Second, colored
minors may be committed by the authority aforesaid, when com-
plaint and due proof have been made that such minor is a proper sub-
ject for the guardianship of the House of Eeformation and Instruc-
tion in consequence of vagrancy or of incorrigible or vicious con-
duct, and that from the moral depravity or otherwise of the parent,
guardian or next friend, in whose custody such minor may be, such
parent, guardian or next friend is incapable or unwilling to exercise
the proper care and discipline over such incorrigible or vicious

Second class.

minor. Third, such children as their parents, guardians or friends
may desire to place therein for temporary restiaint and discipline,
and whose parents, guardians or friends shall agree and contract

Third class.

with the managers for their support and maintenance; and Fourth,
minors committed by the several courts in this State, as provided in
this article.

Fourth class.

154. It shall be the duty of the justice of the peace when com-
mitting a vagrant or incorrigible or vicious minor under this article
relating to the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored
Children, in addition to the commitment, to annex the names and resi-
dences of the different witnesses examined before him, and the sub-
stance of the testimony given by them respectively, on which the

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Wbat to be
annexed to
commitment by
justice

adjudication was founded, and the same duty shall be performed by
the clerk of any court the judge whereof shall make such commit-
ment.

By clerk of
court

155, Whenever any colored minor under the age of sixteen
years, shall be convicted of any felony in any court of this State, the
judge of said court, in his discretion, and with reference to the charac-
ter of the House of Reformation and Instruction as a place of sojourn,
and not of punishment, may order said minors so convicted to be re-
moved to and confined in the said House of Reformation and Instruc-

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Colored minors
convicted of
felony, commit-
ment of

tion , provided, that in all cases no transfer of any such minor from
the counties shall be made until due notice has been given to the
superintendent of said House of Reformation and Instruction, and an
answer received from him, that there is room in the House of Refor-
mation and Instruction for the reception of such delinquent.

HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD.

Transfers from
counties.

156. The House of the Good Shepherd of the city of Baltimore,
a body corporate, incorporated under the General Laws of this

1878, c 442
Retuge for
white females
under eighteen