WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 389
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CHAPTER 249.
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AN ACT to repeal and re-enact section three of
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chapter two hundred and seventy-seven of the
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acts passed at December session, eighteen hundred
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and fifty-two, an act amendatory to the charter of
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the Baltimore Orphans' Asylum, so as to give
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power to said institute to have committed legally
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and more effectually to its care and control desti-
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tute children who are the objects of its charity.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
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bly of Maryland, That section three of chapter
two hundred and seventy-seven of the acts passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, be
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Repealed and
re-enacted.
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and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted so
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as to read as follows:
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when any two
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justices of the peace shall have placed any child or
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Receive des-
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children in the aforementioned asylum, such child or
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titute chil-
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children shall be under and subject to the like reg-
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dren.
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ulations, powers and authority, as though placed in
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said asylum by any orphans' court; and said asylum
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is hereby authorized to receive into its custody, care
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and control from any parent or guardian or guard-
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ians, or any orphans' court, or any justice of the
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peace, any destitute child which it may be willing
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to accept; and any parent upon his, her or their
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offer, and any orphans' court or justice of the peace,
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upon being satisfied that any child is destitute or
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without means for his or her maintenance and ed-
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ucation, may place any such child in said asylum, to
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be controlled and retained by it in accordance with
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How control-
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its rules and regulations, and in conformity with the
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led.
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several Acts of Assembly heretofore passed in rela-
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tion thereto, or to be bound out by it as an appren-
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tice to any trade, business or occupation suitable to
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the sex of the child, or if a female, to learn to be
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useful in housewifery or other purposes, or to place
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them for adoption, or as inmates, until the age of
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eighteen, if a female, and twenty-one if a male,
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