HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
CHAPTER 262.

AN ACT to prohibit the receiving and detain-
ing of children in Alms Houses and Poor
Houses in the State, and to provide for the
care and education of such children.

SECTION 1 . Be it enacted by the General As-
sembly of Maryland, That it shall not be law-
ful for the Trustees of the Poor of the city
of Baltimore, or the Commissioners or Trustees
of the Poor of any of the counties of the State,

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to receive into or retain in any Alms House
or Poor House, any child between three and
sixteen years of age for a longer period than
ninety days, unless such child be an unteach-
able idiot, an epileptic, or a paralytic, or other-
wise so disabled or deformed as to render it
incapable of labor or service.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be
the duty of the Trustees of the Poor of the
city of Baltimore, and the County Commis-
sioners and Trustees of the Poor of the coun-

Prohibition.

ties of this State, to place all pauper children
who are in their charge and named in the first
section of this act, in some respectable family
in the State, or in some Educational Institution
or Home for Children, and of said Trustees of
the Poor of Baltimore city, and of the coun-
ties of the State, or an agent or agents to be
appointed by them for the purpose, to visit
such children not less than once in every six
months, and make all needful inquiries as to
their treatment and welfare, and shall report
to the Board of Trustees making such disposi-
tion of children as specified in the first section
of this act.

To place
pauper chil-
dren.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall
take effect from July the first, eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-six.

Approved April 7, 1886.

Effective.