570 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

either the parent or guardian of said child, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction by any court of competent
jurisdiction shall be fined not more than twenty dollars and costs
for each and every offence.

BOYS' HOME.

1874, ch. 68.

898. The special objects and purposes of the boys' home
society shall be to shelter and protect destitute and homeless boys,
to furnish them with food, raiment and lodging, to stimulate them
to honest efforts to earn a livelihood, to instruct them after work-
ing hours in moral and religious truths and in the rudiments of
education, to aid and encourage them out of vagrancy and igno-
rance, to raise them up into a better life of virtue, industry and
usefulness, and generally to stand in the relation of parent to
such homeless boys

Ibid.

899. The boys' home shall have authority to procure the com-
mitment of any minor in the home, either to the house of refuge
or to any other reformatory institution, in all cases where, by
reason of incorrigible or vicious conduct such minor has rendered
his control beyond the power of the superintendent of said home,
and made it manifestly requisite that from regard for the morale
and future welfare of such minor and the peace and order of
society he should be placed in such reformatory institution; and
the said society shall proceed in all such cases in the same manner
in all respects as the parent or guardian of such minor might or
could do under existing laws.

Ibid.

900. The said society shall have power to place the boys com-
mitted to their care, during the minority of such boys, at such
employments and cause them to be instructed in such branches of
useful knowledge as may be suited to their years and capacities.

DOLAN CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY.
1872, ch. 205.

901. The Dolan children's aid society, under the charge of the
young catholics' friend society, may exercise all the powers con-