ART. 27.] INDUSTRIAL HOME POR COLORED GIRLS. 581

be recorded as prescribed by this code; and all the provisions of
the code in relation to white apprentices shall apply to appren-
tices bound under this section.

1882, ch. 291, sec. 8.

381. The manner of receiving inmates into the industrial
home for colored girls shall be in either of the following modes,
namely: First. Colored girls under the age of eighteen may be

committed by a justice of the peace for the city of Baltimore or
any of the counties of this State on complaint and due proof
made to him by the parent, guardian or next friend of such girl,
that by reason of incorrigible or vicious conduct, such minor has
rendered her 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, she should be placed under the guardianship
of the industrial home for colored girls. Second. Colored girls
under the age of eighteen years may be committed by the author-
ity aforesaid, when complaint and due proof shall have been
made that such minor is a proper subject for the guardianship of
the industrial home for colored girls in consequence of vagrancy,
or of incorrigible or vicious conduct, and that from the moral de-
pravity or otherwise of the parent, guardian 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 dis-
cipline over such incorrigible or vicious minor. Third. Such
colored girls under the age of eighteen years as their parents,
guardians or friends may desire to place therein for temporary
restraint and discipline, and whose parents, guardians or friends
shall agree and contract with the managers for their support and
maintenance. Fourth. Such colored girls under the age of eigh-
teen as may be committed by the several courts of this State;
provided, however, that the said board of managers shall have
the right and power to refuse admission to any such female if, in
their judgment, they may be unable to take proper care of them
by reason of disease or other cause, or having received them, to

discharge or return them to their parents, or send them to the
almshouses of the several counties, or other institutions, wherein
they had their last residences, respectively, if, in the opinion of