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such infant to comply with the terms of its judgment; but such
infant shall not be bound to service in the county or city where
the conviction was had, nor for a term extending beyond the age
of eighteen years in females, and twenty-one in males.

P. G L., (1860,) art. 30, sec. 185. 1854, ch. 155, sec. 1 1888, ch. 438.

296. All infants over twelve and under the age of fifteen
years, who may be convicted of mayhem, murder in the second
degree, manslaughter, assault with intent to commit murder or
mayhem, or of setting fire to any building, tenement, or property,
the setting fire to which is punishable by confinement in the
penitentiary in the case of adults, shall be sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for the said crime in the same manner as if they were of
full age, or, in the discretion of the court, may be confined in
the house of refuge or Saint Mary's industrial school, or house of
reformation and instruction for colored children.

Ibid sec. 186 1854, ch 155, sec. 3.

297. Any court in this State having criminal jurisdiction, may
bind out to the managers of any house of refuge, or other institu-
tion under police regulations within the limits of the said State,
all infants over twelve and under the age of fifteen years, until
they shall arrive at an age of not less than eighteen nor more
than twenty-one years, who shall be convicted of any offence
punishable in adults by confinement in the penitentiary, other
than those specified in the preceding section.

Ibid, sec 187. 1854, ch. 155, sec. 2.

298. It shall be the duty of every court having criminal
jurisdiction to examine into the character of all infants convicted
of offences for which they may be bound as apprentices under
the preceding section, and to exercise a sound discretion in deter-
mining whether the said infant so convicted should be bound out
in accordance with existing laws, or should be sentenced to the
penitentiary in the same manner with adults convicted of like
crimes, and to bind out or sentence such infants accordingly.

Ibid. sec. 188. 1836, ch. 156, sec. 2.

299. It shall be the duty of the courts of this State, in sen-
tencing convicts to the penitentiary, to sentence them for such a