EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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peace before said judge or justice of the peace shall pass
an order committing, binding or apprenticing said child or
children to said corporation.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall

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have full power to pass all by-laws necessary to carry out
the purpose for which this corporation is incorporated; and
the said corporation shall have power to bind out any child
or children entrusted or committed to its care, without the
consent of such child or children, as apprentices, during their
minority, that is until the age of twenty-one years, to such
person, persons or corporations within this State, and to
learn such proper trade or trades or employment as in the
judgment of the managers of said corporation as will be most
conductive to the reformation and the future benefit and
advantage of said child or children, and the indenture by
which said child or children shall be bound shall contain the
usual covenants and shall be recorded as prescribed by the
Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, Article 6, and all
the provisions of said Article 6 of the Public General Laws
of Maryland in relation to apprentices shall apply to appren-
tices bound under this Act. And the said managers of said
corporation shall have the same power to cause any child or
children entrusted or committed to it whether under or over
the age of sixteen years to be committed to some place of
reformation and punishment, that the parent, parents, guard-
ian, guardians or next friend of such child or children now
have with reference to children under sixteen years of age,
under Article 27 of the Code of Public General Laws of
Maryland, and title "Crimes and Punishments," sub-title
"Places of Reformation and Punishment."

Power granted
to pass cer-
tain by-laws,
etc.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That said corporation shall have
power to accept and receive legacies, gifts, devises and
bequests.

May accept
and receive
legacies, etc.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That all the property — real,
personal and mixed — of said corporation be and the same is
hereby excepted from State, county and municipal taxation.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That said corporation may from

Property ex-
empted from,
taxation.

time to time make and adopt such regulations relative to the
management, government, instruction, discipline, employment
and safe-keeping of children under its charge, as may be
deemed expedient and proper, if not contrary to law.

Make and
adopt regula-
lations.