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shall be convicted in any of the courts of this State of any
offense, or of vagrancy, the judge of said court, in his discre-
tion, and with reference to the character of the industrial home
for colored girls as a place of reform, and not of punishment,
may order the minor so convicted to be removed to and confined
in the said industrial home for colored girls.

1888, art. 27, sec 380. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 7.

639. The board of managers shall have power to bind out
girls committed to their care as apprentices until they reach
the age of eighteen years to such persons and places, whether
in or out of this State, and to learn such proper trades or
employments as in the judgment of the said managers will be
most conducive to their reformation and advantage; 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 the code in relation to white appren-
tices shall apply to apprentices bound under this section.

Ibid. sec. 381. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 8.

540. The manner of receiving inmates into the industrial
home for colored girls shall be in either of the following
modes, namely: First. Colored girls under the age of eigh-
teen may be committed by a justice of the peace for the city
of Baltimore or any of the counties of this State on complaint
and due proof made to him by the parent, guardian or next
friend of such girl that, by reason of incorrigible or vicious
conduct, such minor has rendered her 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, she
should be placed under the guardianship of the industrial
home for colored girls. Second. Colored girls under the age
of eighteen years may be committed by the authority aforesaid
when complaint and due proof shall have been made that such
minor is a proper subject for the guardianship of the industrial
home for colored girls in consequence of vagrancy or of incor-
rigible or vicious conduct and that from the moral depravity
or otherwise of the parent, guardian or next friend, in whose
custody 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. Third.
Such colored girls under the age of eighteen years as their