ART. 27] HOUSE OF REFORMATION. 939

1888, art. 27, sec 329, 1878, ch. 442, sec. 9.

485. The judge of the criminal court of Baltimore, the
president of the board of police commissioners and the marshal
of police of the city of Baltimore shall, at such times as they
think proper, visit and inspect the said institution.

House of the Good Shepherd for Colored Girls.

1894, ch. 187, sec. 329 A.

486. The house of the good shepherd for colored girls of
the city of Baltimore, organized under the general incorporation
laws of this State, for the purpose of affording a refuge to
colored females who have had the misfortune to lead an evil
life and who wish to abandon their vicious course and reform,
such persons to be received without distinction of creed, age or
place of birth or residence, is declared to be a body corporate
and politic of this State for the purpose aforesaid, and is
hereby, as to colored females, vested with all such powers and
charged with all such duties as have heretofore been conferred
or charged by law as to white females on the house of the
good shepherd of the city of Baltimore.

Ibid. sec. 329 B.

487. All courts and justices of the peace are hereby author-
ized and empowered to commit colored females to said corpora-
tion for like causes, in like manner and for like terms as they
are now by law authorized to commit white females to the
"House of Good Shepherd" of the city of Baltimore, and the
judge of the criminal court, the president of the board of
police commissioners and the marshal of police of the city of
Baltimore shall, at such times as they think proper, visit and
inspect the said institution.

House of Reformation.

1888, art. 27, sec. 330. 1870, ch 392, sec 1. 1882, ch 373.

488. The house of reformation is a body politic and cor-
porate, and by that name and style shall have perpetual suc-
cession, with the power to have a common seal and to
change the same at pleasure; to make contracts relative to
said institution; to sue and be sued; and by that name and
style shall be capable of purchasing, taking, holding and con-
veying any estate, real or personal, for the use of said corpo-
ration, and to establish by-laws and orders for the regulation of