HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER 172.

AN ACT to authorize certain officials to com-
mit destitute girls to the St. Mary's Orpha-
line School, in the city of Baltimore.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That any Justice of the
Peace or Trustees of the Poor of said city of
Baltimore, or of the counties of Maryland, may
commit to the above-named institution any
orphan or destitute girls who may be suffering
for want of support either on account of death

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or extreme indigence, or bad habits, or neglect
of parents; provided, however, that such girl
shall not be under six or over fourteen years
of age, and that she shall not be afflicted with
any contagious disease, or vicious, in which
cases the managers have the right to refuse
the commitment; and that the person making
the commitment do so in writing and sign the
same.

SEC. 2 And be it enacted, That any girl thus

Commitments.

committed shall remain subject to the laws
and articles of the act of incorporation of said
institution of eighteen hundred and seventeen
and eighteen hundred and eighteen.

Legal status.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 1, 1886.

Effective.