566 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

shall be bound shall contain the covenants, and shall be recorded
as prescribed by law; and all the provisions of this code in
relation to white apprentices shall apply to apprentices bound
under this section.

1878, ch. 442, sec. 5. .

325. 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 conducted 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.

Ibid. sec. 6.

326. The said corporation shall have power to receive within
the refuge conducted by it, all such females as may be committed
to it by the criminal court of Baltimore, the circuit court for any
county, or any justice of the peace in the State of Maryland
under the provisions hereinafter contained, and the same to retain
within the said refuge for their several terms of commitment
provided, however, that the directors of the said corporation
may, at any time prior to the expiration of her term of commit-
ment, discharge and release any female so committed to their
care, on being satisfied of her reformation.

Ibid. sec. 7.

327. The judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, or any
judge of any circuit court for any county, upon information that
any female, under the age of eighteen years, in their several
counties, or the city of Baltimore, as the case may be, leads
a disorderly and dissolute course of life, may, upon applica-
tion of the parent or next friend of such female, issue a warrant
or order, to be directed to the sheriff, or to any constable or police,
officer in such county or city, commanding him to bring the
person against whom the information is so given, before said
court or said justice, on any day to be named therein, not more
than one week from the date of the warrant, to answer to said