ART. 27] HOUSE OF REFUGE. 947

hereinafter provided for in the case of application of parents

or guardians.

Roth's Case, 31 Md. 330.

1888, art. 27, sec. 366. 1860, art 78, sec. 16. 1849, ch. 374, sec 1.

524. They shall have power to place the children com-
mitted to their core, during the minority of such children, at
such employments, and cause them to be instructed in such
branches of useful knowledge as may be suited to their years
and capacities.

Ibid. sec. 367. 1860, art. 78, sec. 17. 1849, ch. 374, sec. 1.
1860, ch. 205, sec. 1. 1872, ch. 218

525. The managers of the house of refuge shall have power
to bind out the white male children committed to their care,
with the consent of such children, as apprentices during their
minority, that is to say, until the age of twenty-one years, to
such persons and places, whether in or out of the State, and
to learn such proper trades or employment as in the judgment
of the said managers will be most conducive to the reformation
and the future benefit and advantage of such children; and
the indentures by which said children shall be bound shall
contain the covenants, and shall be recorded as prescribed by
this code; and all the provisions of this code in relation to
white apprentices shall apply to apprentices bound under this
section.

Ibid. sec. 368. 1860, art. 78. sec. 18, 1849. ch. 374, sec., 2. 1856, ch. 288,
sec. 2. 1860, ch. 205, sec. 2. 1872, ch. 218.

526. The manner of receiving inmates into the house of
refuge shall be in either of the following modes, namely:
first, white male minors may be committed by a justice of the
peace for any of the counties or city of Baltimore, on complaint
and due proof made to him by the parent, guardian or next
friend of such minor, that by reason of incorrigible or vicious
conduct such minor has rendered his control beyond the power
of such parent, guardian or next friend, and made it manifestly
requisite that from regard for the morals and future welfare of
such minor and the peace and order of society he should be
placed under the guardianship of the house of refuge. Second,
white male minors may be committed by the authority afore-
said, when complaint and due proof have been made that such
minor is a proper subject for the guardianship of the house of
refuge, in consequence of vagrancy, or of incorrigible or vicious