936 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

1888, art, 27, sec. 320. 1878, ch. 358, sec. 2.

476. In order to enable the said managers of the house of
correction to discharge the duties imposed upon them by the
preceding section they are vested with all powers necessary
and proper in their discretion to provide transportation for said
convicts to and from the place or places where they may be
engaged at work, and whilst at work to furnish them at all
times with sufficient and proper food and clothing.

House of the Good Shepherd.

Ibid. sec. 321. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 1.

477. The house of the good shepherd of the city of Balti-
more, a body corporate incorporated under the general laws of
this State relating to incorporations, is authorized to receive
all such white females under the age of eighteen years as may
be committed to the corporation by their parents or guardians
and the same to retain within the refuge conducted by said
corporation until they reach the age of eighteen years, or to
bind them out as apprentices until they reach the said age, as
the directors of the said corporation may elect.

Ibid. sec. 322. 1878, ch. 442, sec 2

478. White females under the age of eighteen years may be
committed to the said house of the good shepherd by a justice
of the peace for any of the counties or the city of Baltimore
on complaint and due proof made to him by the parents,
guardians or next friend of such minor that, by reason of incor-
rigible or vicious conduct, such minor has rendered her control
beyond the power of such parents or guardian or next friend
and made it manifestly requisite that, from regard to the
morals and future welfare of such minor and the peace and
order of society, she should be placed under the guardianship
of the house of the good shepherd.

Ibid, sec 323. 1878, ch. 442, sec 3.

479. White females under the age of eighteen years may be
committed to the said house of the good shepherd by the
authority aforesaid when complaint and due proof have been
made that such minor is a proper subject for the guardianship
of the said corporation in consequence of vagrancy or of incor-