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rigible or vicious conduct and that, from the moral depravity or
otherwise of the parent, guardian or next friend in whose cus-
tody 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

1888, art. 27, sec. 324. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 4.

480. The said corporation shall have power to bind out all
minors committed to their care, with the consent of such
minors, as apprentices during their minority, to such persons
and places, within or out of this State, and to learn such
proper trades or employments, as in the judgment of such
managers will be most conducive to the reformation and the
future benefit and advantage of such children; and the inden-
tures by which children shall be bound shall contain the cove-
nants, and shall be recorded as prescribed by law; and all the
provisions of this code in relation to white apprentices shall
apply to apprentices bound under this section.

Ibid sec. 325. 1878, ch. 442, sec 5.

481. The directors of the said house of the good shepherd
shall have power to place all the females committed to their
care at such employment and cause them to be instructed in
such branches of useful knowledge as may be suited to their
years and capacities; and they shall have power to classify the
inmates of the refuge conducted by them and to make all such
useful rules and regulations as in their experience they shall
from time to time find necessary for the regulation and govern-
ment of the same.

Ibid, sec 326. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 6.

482. The said corporation shall have power to receive
within the refuge conducted by it all such females as may be
committed to it by the criminal court of Baltimore, the circuit
court for any county, or any justice of the peace in the State
of Maryland under the provisions hereinafter contained and
the same to retain within the said refuge for their several
terms of commitment; provided, however, that the directors of
the said corporation may, at any time prior to the expiration
of her term of commitment, discharge and release any female
so committed to their care, on being satisfied of her reformation.

Ibid. sec. 327. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 7.

483. The judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, or any
judge of any circuit court for any county, upon information
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