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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

members, or a majority of them, shall appoint a
time and place for the first meeting of the Direc-
tors, and give notice thereof to all the other Di-
rectors, and the Directors shall meet thereafter at
such times and places as they may from time to
time determine.

Objects.

Sec. 5. And be it enacted, " That the special ob-
ject of said institution shall be the care, reforma-
tion and instruction of such girls as are not admit-
ted into either the House of Refuge, the Home of
the Friendless, or the Children's Aid Society, but
who need the care of some public reformatory in-
stitution.

Power of di-
rectors.

Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That the Directors of
said institution shall have the same powers in re-
spect to such girls, until they are twenty-one years
of age, that the House of Refuge, the Home of the
Friendless, or the Children's Aid Society now have
in respect to children committed to their care; but
no girl shall he committed to said institution who
is over eighteen years of age at the time of such
commitment.

Power to

commit girls
to institution.

Sec. 7. And be it enacted, That the father, or
in case of his death, or his being a non-resident of
this State, the mother, if she he a resident of this
State, and the several courts having criminal juris-
diction, and the Orphans' Court and the Justices
of the Peace of the State may commit such girls to
said institution, and such girls may be transferred
to said institution from any of the others hereinbe-
fore named, or from the almshouses of this State;

Power to re-
ject.

but power is reserved to the Directors of this insti-
tution to reject any girls of whom they may be un-
able to take proper care by reason of disease or
other cause, or having received them, to discharge
or return them to their parents, or to send them to
the almshouses of the several counties wherein
they had their last residences respectively.

Sections ap-
plicable to in-
stitution.

Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That the provisions of
the Public Local Laws, article four, section nine
hundred and seven to nine hundred and twenty-
seven, inclusive, entitled, "City of Baltimore Va-
grants, " shall be applicable throughout the State,
to the institution hereby incorporated, as far as the
special object of it will admit.