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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 274

McCarrier, Miss Mary C. Aburn, Mrs. Amanda Peterman,
Julia Downes, M. D., Miss Florence Hammond, Alice Park-

Body corporate

hurst, M. D., James S. Barnard, M. D., William C. Corn-
stock, M. D., J. Lewis Edeler, Francis M. Richardson, Mrs.
Elizabeth Riley, Miss Elizabeth Rarick, Wil bur Brosnan,
Mrs. Dora Snyder, Miss Etga Maddox, Mrs. Emma Maddox
Funck, John W. Barton, Miss Henrietta E. Briscoe, Henry
C. Garthe, Mrs. Amanda Stearns, Paul I. Zimmerman,
Marion A. Crown, John Henry Grill and such other persons
as may hereafter join them, according to the terms and con-
ditions of the by-laws, to be made under the provisions of
this charter, be and they are hereby made and constituted a
body corporate, by the name and style of "The United
Patriotic Home for Orphan Children of Maryland," to
receive in charge, instruct and teach orphans and other chil-
dren, both boys and girls committed, apprenticed, bound
and entrusted to it.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation may

May possess
and hold
property.

possess a.nd hold property not exceeding in value three hun-
dred thousand dollars.
SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall

May receive
children
from parents
etc.

have the power to receive from any parent, parents, guar-
dian or guardians, under a written contract, any child or
children, and to retain control of him or her or them, until
the age of twenty-one years, and the said corporation shall
likewise have the power to receive such child or children as
may be committed, apprenticed, bound or entrusted to it in
conformity to law.
SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That each of the judges of the
Court of Appeals of Maryland, of the Circuit Courts of the

Power granted
certain per-
sons to com-
mit children
to said cor-
poration.

different counties, and of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore
city, including the justice of the peace assigned to the
different police station houses of the city of Baltimore, as
well as the judge of the Juvenile Court of Baltimore, shall
have full power to commit, bind or apprentice to said corpo-
ration any child or children, who is destitute, or whose
parent or parents are unable or unwilling to provide an
educational or industrial pursuit for him or her; provided,
the said corporation be willing to receive said child or chil-
dren; provided further, that the parent, parents, guardian
or guardians of said child or children, have been accorded
an opportunity to be heard by said judge or justice of the