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parents, guardians or friends may desire to place therein for
temporary restraint and discipline, and whose parents, guar-
dians or friends shall agree and contract with the managers for
their support and maintenance. Fourth. Such colored girls
under the age of eighteen as may be committed by the several
courts of this State; provided, however, that the said board of
managers shall have the right and power to refuse admission to
any such female if, in their judgment, they may be unable to
take proper care of them by reason of disease or other cause,
or, having received them, to discharge ,or return them to their
parents, or send them to the almshouses of the several counties,
or other institutions, wherein they had their last residences,
respectively, if, in the opinion of the board of managers, the
interests of the inmates of the institution demand and require it.

1886, art. 27, sec. 382. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 9.

541. The mayor and city council of Baltimore are author-
ized and empowered to appropriate annually towards the cur-
rent expenses, or for the benefit of the industrial home for
colored girls, any sum of money they may deem proper.

Ibid. sec. 383. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 10.

542. The board of managers shall make a report to the
general assembly at each regular session thereof of the
number of colored girls received by them into said institution;
the disposition made of them by instructing or employing
them therein or by binding them out as apprentices; the
receipts and expenditures of said managers, and generally all
such facts and particulars as may tend to exhibit the effects,
whether beneficial or otherwise, of the said institution.

St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys.

Ibid. sec. 384. 1867, ch. 402. 1874, ch. 288.

543. St. Mary's industrial school for boys of the city of
Baltimore is empowered to receive in charge such orphan and
other destitute boys as may be committed to the charge of said
body corporate and to bind out such boys until they shall
attain the age of twenty-one years; and any court or justice of
the peace of this State shall have power and authority, in the
discretion of the judge of such court or such justice, to commit
to the charge of said institution any destitute white boy, or
any white boy convicted before such court or justice of any
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