ART. 27.] HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD. 565

white females under the age of eighteen years as may be com-
mitted to the corporation by their parents or guardians, and the
same to retain within the refuge conducted by said corporation
until they reach the age of eighteen years, or to bind them out as
apprentices until they reach the said age, as the directors of the
said corporation may elect.

1878. ch. 442, sec. 2.

322. White females under the age of eighteen years may be
committed to the said 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
power of such parents 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.

Ibid, sec, 3.

323. White females under the age of eighteen years may be
committed to the said house of the good shepherd by the author-
ity aforesaid, when complaint and due proof have been made that
such minor is a proper subject for the guardianship of the said
corporation, 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, guardian or next friend is unable or
unwilling to exercise the proper care and discipline over such in-
corrigible or vicious minor.

Ibid. sec. 4.

324. 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 advan-
tage of such children; and the indentures by which children