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insane or other special classes requiring special treatment, or
homeless persons requiring temporary care only ; provided,
the City has adequate accommodations at the Almshouse or
other City home. All poor persons who, in the judgment of
said Supervisors, require special care or treatment outside of
a City institution, may be placed by said Supervisors in any
institution or institutions with which the City has contracted
for such care or treatment, which they, in the exercise of their
judgment, after careful inspection and inquiry, shall deem best
fitted to give the necessary care or treatment.

107. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, through
the said Supervisors, shall have care and supervision over such
children as shall be committed to or placed in those institutions
with which the City may have contracted and as shall have
been duly accepted by said Supervisors as proper charges on
the City. Said Supervisors shall have power to remove any
child from any such institution to which he or she has been
committed or placed, and to place said child in any other
such institution, when it is apparent to the Supervisors that,
from improper treatment or for other good cause, the welfare
of the child requires such removal. No such child shall be
discharged from the institution to which he or she shall
have been committed or placed (unless by direction of a court
of competent jurisdiction), or be transferred to any other insti-
tution, or to the care of any individual, without the approval
and consent of the said Supervisors. It shall be the duty of the
Supervisors, as far as is practicable, to place all destitute or
neglected children who are under their care or in their charge,
in some institution or home for children, or, without payment
of board in some respectable family in the State of Maryland,
and to have the children visited, and their circumstances
carefully examined at least once in every six months by one
of the Supervisors or by a skilled agent or agents appointed
by them for the purpose. On the preliminary question
of the commitment of any destitute or neglected child,
said Supervisors, or their agent, shall be summoned by
the committing officer and heard as to whether the parent
or guardian of the child to be committed is entitled to the
aid of the City, and if on the return of the summons of the said