WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 741

	CHAPTER 471.
	AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amend-
	ments the seventh section of an act passed at
	January session, eighteen hundred and seventy-
	eight, chapter four hundred and forty-two, en-
	titled " An act to give additional corporate powers
	to the House of the Good Shepherd of the city
	of Baltimore," and to provide for the commitment
	thereto of dissolute and disorderly females for the
	purpose of reformation.
	SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-
	bly of Maryland, That the seventh section of
	the act passed at January session, eighteen hun-
	dred and seventy eight, chapter four hundred and forty-two, entitled "An act to give additional	Repealed and
	corporate powers to the House of the Good Shep-	enacted in-
	herd of the city of Baltimore," and to provide for	stend.
	the commitment thereto of dissolute and disorderly
	females, for the purpose of reformation, be and the
	same is hereby .repealed, and that there be enacted
	instead thereof the following, to be known as sec-
	tion seven of the said act, that is to say :
	SECTION 7. The Judge of the Criminal Court of
	Baltimore city, or any judge of any circuit court for	Issue war-
	any county, or any justice of the peace for any	rant.
	county, upon information, that any female under the
	age of twenty-one years, in their several counties,
	or in the city of Baltimore, as the case may be, leads
	a disorderly, dissolute course of life, may, upon ap-
	plication of the parent or next friend of such fe-
	male, issue a warrant or order, directed to the
	sheriff, or to any constable or police officer in such
	county or city, commanding him to bring the per-
	son against whom the information is so given be-
	fore said court or said justice, on any day to be
	named therein, not more than one week from the	Who may
	date of the warrant, to answer said charge; and said	commit.
	court or justice, upon proof of said charge, may commit such female to the House of the Good