576 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

the consent of such children, as apprentices during their minority,
that is to say, until the age of twenty-one years, to such persons
and places, whether in or out of this State, and to learn such
proper trades or employment as in the judgment of the said man-
agers will be most conducive to the reformation and the future
benefit and advantage of such children; and the indentures by
which said children shall be bound, shall contain the covenants,
and shall be recorded as prescribed by this code; and all the
provisions of this code, in relation to white apprentices, shall
apply to apprentices bound under this section.

P. G. L , (1860,) art. 78, sec. 18. 1849, ch. 374, sec. 2. 1856, ch. 288, sec. 2-
1860, ch. 205, sec 2. 1872, ch. 218.

368. The manner of receiving inmates into the house of
refuge, shall be in either of the following modes, namely: first,
white male minors may be committed by a justice of the peace
for any of the counties or city of Baltimore, on complaint and
due proof made to him by the parent, guardian or next friend of
such minor, that by reason of incorrigible or vicious conduct,
such minor has rendered his control beyond the power of such
parent, guardian or next friend, and made it manifestly requisite,
that from regard for the morals and future welfare of such minor
and the peace and order of society, he should be placed under
the guardianship of the house of refuge. Second, white male
minors may be committed by the authority aforesaid, when com-
plaint and due proof have been made that such minor is a proper
subject for the guardianship of the house of refuge, in conse-
quence of vagrancy, or of incorrigible or vicious conduct, and
that from the moral depravity, or otherwise, of the parent, guar-
dian 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 incorrigible or vicious
minor. Third, such white male children as their parents, guar-
dians or friends may desire to place therein for temporary re-
straint and discipline, and where parents, guardians or friends,
shall agree and contract with the managers, for their support and
maintenance; and fourth, white male minors committed by the
several courts in this State as provided in sections 365 and
370.