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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Chapter 347.

AN ACT to repeal the fifteenth section of an act

entitled "An Act to incorporate a House of Re-

formation and Instruction for Colored Children,"

passed at January session, eighteen hundred and

seventy, chapter three hundred and ninety-two,

and to re-enact the same with amendments, and

also to add an additional section to said act, to be

known as section twenty-one A.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That section fifteen of the act

Repealed and
re-enacted.

passed at January session, eighteen hundred and

seventy, chapter three hundred and ninety two, be

and the same is hereby repealed and re enacted so

as to read as follows:

15. And be it enacted, That the Board of Man-

agers of the House of Reformation shall have power,

in their discretion, to take into said house all such

colored boys as shall be taken up and committed as

Power of

street beggars or vagrants, or for incorrigible or

board.

vicious conduct; or shall be convicted for criminal

offences, or as hereinafter provided for in the case

of application of parents or guardians.

SEC. 2. And be it, enacted, That the following

Additional

additional section be and is hereby added to said

section.

act, to be known as section twenty-one A.

SEC. 21 A. And be it enacted, That every person

who shall wilfully aid or abet any minor in escaping

from the House of Reformation, or from any person

or persons to whose care and custody any minor may

Fine for abet-

have been lawfully bound by said House of Reforma-

ting.

tion under the seventeenth section of this act, shall,

on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more

than one hundred dollars, or to be imprisoned for

not more than sixty days.

Approved May 3, 1882.