WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOTERNOR.

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vacancy occurs among those elected by the mem-

bers, or by the Governor or mayor if said vacancy

occurs among those appointed by them, and the
said board of managers shall continue to act until

Vacancy— how

filled.

their successors are duly appointed, and in case the

annual election shall not be held for any reason the

said corporation shall not thereby be dissolved.

SEC. 5 And be it enacted, That the board of

managers shall provide a suitable building within

the State, and establish such regulations respecting

the religious and moral education, training, employ-

ment, discipline and safe keeping of its inmates as

Provide suita-
ble building.

may be deemed expedient and proper, and the

grounds and buildings which may be erected thereon

for the said Industrial Home for Colored Girls shall

be exempt and free of all taxes; no public streets,

lanes or alleys, roads or railroads or canals of any

kind shall be opened through the lands of the said

institution, when the same are exclusively used or

appropriated for the purposes of its incorporation,

except with the consent of the board of managers.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the board of

managers shall take into said institution all such

colored female minors under the age of eighteen

years as shall be taken up and committed as street

beggars or vagrants, or who shall be convicted of

criminal offences, or who shall be committed under

Who to take
in institution.

the provisions of article four, Code of Public

Local Laws, title " City of Baltimore," sub-title

"Vagrants;" but whenever any colored female

under the age of eighteen years shall be convicted in

any of the courts of this State of any oftence, or of

vagrancy, the judge of said court in his discretion,

and with reference to the character of the Industrial

Home for Colored Girls as a place of reform, and

not of punishment, may order the minor so con victed

to be removed to and confined in the said Industrial

Home for Colored Girls.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the managers of

the Industrial Home for Colored Girls shall have

power to bind out girls committed to their care as

apprentices, until they reach the age of eighteen

Power to bind

years, to such persons and places, whether in or out

out.

of this State, and to learn such proper trades or

employments as in the judgment of the said mana-

gers will be most conducive tc their reformation and