LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary -
land. That William G. Baker, Charles F. Thomas, Joseph D.

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Baker, Daniel Baker, John H. JJaker and William G. Baker.
Jr., and such other persons as may hereafter join them accord
ing to the terms and conditions of the by-laws to be madr.
nuder the provisions of this charter, be and they are hereby
made and constituted a body corporate, by the name and style
of the "Buckingham Industrial School of Frederick County.
Maryland," to receive in charge, instruct and teach orphan and
other boys apprenticed, bound and entrusted to it.

Constituted a
body corpo-
rate.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said corporation may
possess and hold property not exceeding in ualue three hun
dred thousand dollors.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the said corporation shall

Possess prop-
erty.

have power to receive from any parent, under a written con-
tract, any boy above the age of two years, and to retain con-
trol of him until the age of twenty-one years; and the said
corporation shall likewise have power to receive such boys
between said ages as may be apprenticed, entrusted or bound
to it in conformity to law.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That each of the judges of the
Circuit Court for Frederick County shall have full power to
bind or apprentice to said corporation any boy between said

Apprentices
received.

ages who is destitute or whose parents are unable or unwilling
to provide an educational or industrial pursuit for him ; pro
vided, the said corporation be willing to receive such boy, and
provided further, that the parents of such boy have an oppor-
tunity to be heard by said judge, before such judge shall
pass any order binding or apprenticing such boy to said corpo-
ration.

Judges of the
Circuit Court
given cer-
tain powers.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That said corporation shall have
full power to pass all by laws necessary to carry out the pur-
pose for which it is hereby created.

Pass by-laws.

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

Accept lega-
cies etc.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That all the property of said
corporation be and is hereby exempt from county and munici
pal taxation.

Exempt from
taxation.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That said corporation may, from
time to time, make and adopt such regulations relative to the
management, government, instruction, discipline, employment
and safe keeping of the boys under its charge as may be
deemed expedient and proper, if not contrary to law.

Adopt regu-
lations.