728 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 300

ring in any of said classes from death, resignation, removal
from State, failure to qualify within thirty days after the first
day of June following their appointment, or from any cause
whatever, to appoint a person or persons to fill such vacancy
or vacancies for the balance of the term of said office.

SEC. 4. That the manner of commitments to and receiving
inmates into said institution shall be as now provided by the
Laws of this State under Sections 589, 590 and 591 of Article
27 of the Code of Public General Laws of this State, known as
Bagby's Article 27, Crimes and Punishments, Annotated, as

fully and absolutely as if the same were herein repeated, re-
cited and specifically set out and re-enacted; provided, how-
ever, that all commitments heretofore made shall in no man-
ner be affected by the transfer to and taking over by the State
of Maryland of said institution, but the same shall be and re-
main in full force and effect and continue after said trans-
fer shall have been made.

SEC. 5. That all Legacies now held and existing, and all
Legacies that may hereafter be given by persons dying after
the passage of this Act and the acquisition by the State of
Maryland as aforesaid of the property and rights of said now
existing corporation, said Maryland School for Boys, and all
appropriations for, and gifts, grants, and devises heretofore
and hereafter to be made, given, granted, devised or bequeathed
to the said Maryland School for Boys, either under and by said
name, or under its former name of the House of Refuge, shall
survive and inure to the benefit of and vest in the Board of
Managers of the Maryland Training School for Boys as ap-
pointed under the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 6. The said Board of Managers of the Maryland
Training School for Boys shall provide accommodation and
proper care and training for at least two hundred and fifty
(250) boys, who may be committed to said school from the vari-
ous counties of the State and from Baltimore City, which num-
ber shall be from time to time apportioned among the several
counties and the City of Baltimore according to the population
as ascertained by the preceding census, and the County Com-
missioners of each county and the Mayor and City Council of
said City are hereby authorized and required to levy annually
upon the assessable property of each of said counties and said
city respectively, an amount equal to $130.00 per annum for
each boy so apportioned, to be collected in the same manner as
other taxes; and out of the said sum so levied by each county