938 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27

that any female under the age of eighteen years in their
several counties or the city of Baltimore, as the case may be,
leads a disorderly and dissolute course of life, may, upon
application of the parent or next friend of such female, issue a
warrant or order to be directed to the sheriff or to any con-
stable or police officer in such county or city, commanding him
to bring the person against whom the information is so given
before said court or said justice on any day to be named
therein, not more than one week from the date of the warrant,
to answer to said charge; and the said court or said justice
upon proof of said charge may commit such female to the said
house of the good shepherd of the city of Baltimore for not
less than one week nor more than two months for the first
occasion, and not less than one month nor more than six
months for the second or any subsequent occasion; provided,
however, that in every case so brought before the criminal
court of Baltimore or the circuit court for any county the
trial shall be by jury, if demanded by the party charged; and
if in any case brought as aforesaid before any justice of the
peace the party charged shall demand a jury trial, the said
justice shall certify said case to the criminal court of Balti-
more, or the circuit court for the county, as the case may be,
to be proceeded with and tried by said court in the same man-
ner as if the case had been originally brought before said
court; and such court or justice may commit said person, in
the absence of suitable bail, to the said house of the good
shepherd instead of the common jail, pending the said charge.

1888, art, sec. 328. 1878, ch. 442, sec. 8.

484. The directors of the said house of the good shepherd
in the city of Baltimore shall annually report to the governor
of this State a full account of the operations of the said cor-
poration; and the comptroller of the State shall semi-annually
on the first day of January and July draw his warrant on the
treasurer to the order of the president of the said corporation
for an amount at the rate of twenty cents per diem for each of
the average number of females committed by any court or
justice of the peace, as hereinbefore provided, who shall have
been in the said institution during the preceding six months ;
and the sum of two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the said
twenty cents per day out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.