572 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

1870, ch. 392, sec 20.

348. It shall be the duty of the justice of the peace when
committing a vagrant or incorrigible or vicious minor, under the
preceding section, in addition to the commitment, to annex the
names and residences of the different witnesses examined before
him, and the substance of the testimony given by them, respec-
tively, on which the adjudication was founded; and the same duty
shall be performed by the clerk of any court, the judge whereof
shall make such commitment.

Ibid. sec. 21. 1882, ch. 382

349. Whenever any colored minor under the age of sixteen
years shall be convicted before any court or justice of the peace,
of any felony or other offence against any law or laws of this
State, the judge of said court, or said justice, in his discretion, and
with reference to the character of said institution as a place of
reform and not of punishment, may order said minor so convicted
to be removed to and confined in the said house of reformation
and instruction; provided, that in all cases no transfer of any such
minor shall be made until due notice has been given to the super-
intendent of said house of reformation, and an answer received
from him that there is room for the reception of such deh'nquent.

1882, ch. 247.

350. Every person who shall wilfully aid or abet any minor
in escaping from the house of reformation, or from any person or
persons to whose care and custody any minor may have been law-
fully bound by said house of reformation under section 346, shall,
on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than one
hundred dollars, or to be imprisoned for not more than sixty days.

House of Refuge.

P. G. L., (1860,) art 78, sec. 1. 1830, ch. 64, sec. 1.

351. The subscribers to the house of refuge are a body politic
and corporate, by the name and style of " The House of Refuge,"
and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession, with
the power to have a common seal, and to change the same at
pleasure; to make contracts relative to said institution; to sue and
be sued, and by that name and style shall be capable of purchas-