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charge; and the said court or said justice, upon proof of said
charge, may commit such female to the said house of the good
shepherd of the city of Baltimore for not less than one week,
nor more than two months for the first occasion, and not less
than one month, nor more than six months for the second or any
subsequent occasion; provided, however, that in every case so
brought before the criminal court of Baltimore, or the circuit
court for any county, the trial shall be by jury, if demanded by
the party charged; and if in any case brought as aforesaid before
any justice of the peace, the party charged shall demand a jury
trial, the said justice shall certify said case to the criminal court
of Baitimore, or the circuit court for the county, as the case may
be, to be proceeded with and tried by said court in the same
manner as if the case had been originally brought before said
court; and such court or justice may commit said person, in the
absence of suitable bail, to the said house of the good shepherd
instead of the common jail, pending the said charge.

1878, ch. 442, sec. 8.

328. The directors of the said house of the good shepherd in
the city of Baltimore shall annually report to the governor of this
State, a full account of the operations of the said corporation;
and the comptroller of the State shall semi-annually, on the first
day of January and July, draw his warrant on the treasurer to
the order of the president of the said corporation for an amount
at the rate of twenty cents per diem for each of the average
number of females committed by any court or justice of the
peace as hereinbefore provided, who shall have been in the said
institution during the preceding six months; and the sum of two
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is
hereby appropriated to pay the said twenty cents per day, out of
any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Ibid. sec. 9.

329. The judge of the criminal court of Baitimore, the presi-
dent of the board of police commissioners, and the marshal of
police of the city of Baltimore, shall, at such times as they think
proper, visit and inspect the said institution.