954 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS. [ART. 27.

offense against any law or laws of this State; provided, that
the parent or guardian of said boy or boys shall request that
they be committed to the St. Mary's industrial school; in all
such cases the board of managers shall have power, in their
discretion, to take into said institution all such white boys
under sixteen years of age as shall be taken up and committed
as street beggars or vagrants, or shall be convicted of criminal
offenses.

1888, art. 27, sec. 385. 1867, ch. 402.

544. The governor of the State and mayor of the city of
Baltimore shall each appoint, every two years, three persons
to represent said State and city, respectively, in the board of
trustees of said institution.

St. Mary's Ind. School v. Brown, 45 Md. 310.

Ibid. sec. 386. 1867, ch. 402.

545. The board of trustees may, from time to time, make
such by-laws, ordinances ond regulations relative to the man-
agement, government, instruction, discipline, employment and
disposition of the minors in said institution, not contrary to
law, and establish such regulations respecting the religious
and moral education, training, employment, discipline and safe
keeping of its inmates, as may be deemed expedient and proper

Ibid. sec. 387. 1882, ch. 72, sec. 2.

546. In addition to the classes of minors who may be com-
mitted to said St. Mary's industrial school for boys of the city
of Baltimore, any justice of the peace of this State may com-
mit to the care of said corporation every such white male
minor as on complaint of any parent, guardian or next friend
in whose custody such minor may be, and, on proof taken
before such justice, shall be adjudged by such justice to be a
proper subject for commitment to said institution by reason of
the incorrigible or vicious conduct of such minor, and because
of such incorrigible or vicious conduct to be beyond the con-
trol of such parent, guardian or next friend; and any justice
of the peace may commit to the care and custody of said cor-
poration any white male minor whom said justice, on com-
plaint and due proof, shall deem a proper subject to be com-
mitted to said institution because of incorrigible or vicious
conduct; provided, the said justice shall be satisfied, on proof
taken before him, that the parent, guardian or next friend, in