WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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form, and not of punishment, may order said minor

so convicted to be removed to a'nd confined in the

said House of Refuge; provided that in all cases no

transfer of any such minor shall be made until due

Proviso.

notice has been given to the superintendent of said

House of Refuge, and an answer received from him

that there is room in the House of Refuge for the

reception of such delinquent.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1882.

Chapter 382.

AN ACT to repeal section twenty-one of an act

passed January session, eighteen hundred and

seventy, chapter three hundred and ninety-two,

entitled "An act to incorporate a House of Re-

formation and Instruction for Colored Children,

and to appropriate a sum of money for the same,"

and to re-enact the same with amendments.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assem-

bly of Maryland, That section twenty-one of an

act passed January session, eighteen hundred and

seventy, chapter three hundred and ninety-two, en-

titled "An act to incorporate a House of Reforma-

Repealed and
re-enacted.

tion and Instruction for Colored Children, and to

appropriate a sum of money for the same," be and

the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with

amendments, as follows :

21. Whenever any colored minor under the age

of sixteen years shall be convicted before any court,

or magistrate, of any felony, or other offence against

any law or laws of this State, the judge of said

court, or said magistrate, in his discretion, and with

Who may be

reference to the character of said institution as a

confined there-
in.

place of reform and not of punishment, may order

said minor so convicted to be removed to and con-

fined in the said House of Reformation and Instruc-

tion; provided that in all cases no transfer of any