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	or transfer them to the custody, charge, care and
	training of any corporate or other home asylum, or
	other association authorized by law to receive such
	children, and to retain or bind them out in this	Bind out.
	State ; provided that all such acts of binding, plac-
	ing or transferring shall be evidenced by an instru-
	ment of writing, executed in duplicate, signed by
	the president of the said Nursery and Child's Hos-
	pital of Baltimore city, and by the person or corpor-
	ation taking such child as apprentice or for adop-
	tion, or for subsequent custody, care and rearing,
	and by such signers acknowledged before any offi-
	cer competent under the laws of this State to take
	acknowledgment of deeds, at the proper cost and
	charge of the party so taking, receiving or adopt-
	ing ; and provided also, that the said Nursery and
	Child's Hospital of Baltimore city shall keep a fair	Keep record.
	record, in a suitable book, of ,the admission of all
	children so received into its custody and care, in
	which shall be stated the date of admission, the
	name and age of the child at the time of admission,
	the name of the person or justice by whom, or the
	court by which, committed, and the name of the
	nearest relatives of the child when known, to the
	corporation or its officer charged with the admission
	of inmates, and the name and address of any person
	to whom, or institution to which, any child or children
	may be committed by the said Nursery and Child's
	Hospital of Baltimore city, and one copy of said in-
	strument, so to be executed in duplicate, shall be re-	Duplicate
	tained and properly filed by said Nursery and Child's Hospital of Baltimore city, and shall be open to	copy to be re- tained.
	inspection.
	SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the foundlings, in-
	fants, orphans and other destitute children under the
	care and control of the said corporation, the Nursery
	and Child's Hospital of Baltimore city, shall be and
	remain under the control and restraint, and under
	the charge of the said corporation and of the offi-	Under charge
	cers, managers and agents thereof, and bound to obedience to its rules, regulations and discipline to	of corpora- tion.
	every effect as apprentices are bound in respect of
	their masters and mistresses, and subject to all laws
	concerning the duties, liabilities, privileges and
	rights of apprentices.