582 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

the board of managers, the interests of the inmates of the institu-
tion demand and require it.

1882, ch 291, sec. 9.

382. The mayor and city council of Baltimore are authorized
and empowered to appropriate annually towards the current ex-
penses, or for the benefit of the industrial home for colored girls,
any sum of money they may deem proper.

Ibid. sec. 10.

383. The board of managers shall make a report to the gen-
eral assembly, at each regular session thereof, of the number of
colored girls received by them into said institution ; the disposi-
tion made of them by instructing or employing them therein,
or by binding them out as apprentices; the receipts and expendi-
tures of said managers, and generally all such facts and particu-
lars as may tend to exhibit the effects, whether beneficial or
otherwise, of the said institution.

St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys.

1867, ch. 402. 1874, ch. 288.

384. St. Mary's industrial school for boys, of the city of
Baltimore, is empowered to receive in charge such orphan and
other destitute boys as may be committed to the charge of said!
body corporate, and to bind out such boys until they shall attain
the age of twenty-one years; and any court or justice of the peace
of this State shall have power and authority, in the discretion of
the judge of such court or such justice, to commit to the charge
of said institution, any destitute white boy, or any white boy con-
victed before such court or justice of any offence against any law
or laws of this State; provided, that the parent or guardian of
said boy or boys shall request that they be committed to the St.
Mary's industrial school; in all such cases the board of managers,
shall have power, in their discretion, to take into said institution
all such white boys, under sixteen years of age, as shall be taken
up and committed as street beggars or vagrants, or shall be con-
victed of criminal offences.