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PLACES OF IMPRISONMENT AND REFORMATION. [ART. 74.

State relating to incorporations, is authorized to receive all such
white females under the age of eighteen years as may be committed
to the corporation by their parents or guardians, and the same to
be retained within the refuge conducted by said corporation until
they reach the age of eighteen years, or to bind them out as appren-
tices until they reach the said age, as the directors of the said cor-
poration may elect.

Id s 2.
How to be
committed.

157. White females under the age of eighteen years may be
committed to the House of the Good Shepherd 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 parents, guardians, or next friend
of such minor, that, by reason of incorrigible or vicious conduct,
such minor has rendered her control beyond the powers of such pa-
rents or 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, she should be placed under the
guardianship of the House of the Good Shepherd.

Id s 3
When to be
committed

158. White females under the age of eighteen years may be
committed to the said House of the Good Shepherd by the authority
aforesaid, when complaint and due proof have been made that such
minor is a proper subject for the guardianship of the said corpora-
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
minor.

Id c 4.

Power to bind
out as appren-
tices.

159, The said corporation shall have power to bind out all
minors committed to their care, with the consent of such minors, as
apprentices during their minority, to such persons and places, within
or out of this State, and to learn such proper trades or employments,
as in the judgment of such managers will be most conducive to the
reformation and the future benefit and advantage of such children ;
and the indentures by which children shall be bound shall contain
the covenants, and shall be recorded as prescribed by article LIV
of this Code relating to Apprentices, and all the provisions of the
said article in relation to white apprentices shall apply to appren-
tices bound under this section.

Id s 5.
Instruction of
females com-
mitted

160m The directors of the said House of the Good Shepherd
shall have power to place all the females committed to their care at
such employment, and cause them to be instructed in such branches
of useful knowledge as may be suited to their years and capacities ;
and they shall have power to classify the inmates of the refuge con-

Rules and
regulations.

ducted by them, and to make all such useful rules and regulations
as in their experience they shall from time to time find necessary
for the regulation and government of the same.

Id s 6.
Females com-

161, The said corporation shall have power to receive within