ART. 27.] HOUSE OF REFUGE. 575

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 78, sec. 11. 1830, ch. 64, sec. 3.

361. The treasurer, before he shall enter upon the duties of
lus office, shall give bond in the penal sum of five thousand dol-
lars for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office.

Ibid. sec. 12. 1830, ch. 64, sec. 5.

362. The board of managers shall provide a suitable building
in the city or county of Baltimore, and establish such regulations
respecting the religious and moral education, training, employ-
ment, discipline, and safe keeping of its inmates, as may be
deemed expedient and proper.

Ibid. sec. 13. 1830, ch. 64, sec. 11.

363. The ground and the buildings which may be erected
thereon for said house of refuge shall be free of tax.

Ibid. sec. 14. 1853, ch. 32.

364. No public streets, lanes, alleys, roads, railroads or canals
of any kind, shall be opened through the lands, or any part of the
lands of the house of refuge, where the same ore exclusively used
or appropriated for the purposes of its incorporation, except with
the consent of the board of managers.

Ibid. sec. 15. 1849, ch. 374, sec. 1. 1872, ch, 218.

365. The board of managers shall have power in their discre-
tion to take into said house all such white male children as shall
be taken up and committed as street beggars or vagrants, or shall
be convicted of criminal offences, or as hereinafter provided for
in the case of application of parents or guardians.
Roth's Case, 31 Md. 330,

Ibid. sec. 16. 1849, ch. 374, sec. 1.

366. They shall have power to place the children committed
to their care, during the minority of such children, at such em-
ployments, and cause them to be instructed in such branches of
useful knowledge as may be suited to their years and capacities.

Ibid. sec. 17. 1849, ch. 374 sec. 1. 1860, ch. 205, sec. 1. 1872, ch. 218.

367. The managers of the house of refuge shall have power to
bind out the white male children committed to their care, with