654 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 517. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore may
annually appropriate a sufficient sum of money to pay for the
support and maintenance of each minor committed from the
City of Baltimore by legal process, not exceeding one hundred
and twenty dollars per annum for each minor so committed to
the following reformatories: Maryland School for Boys, St.
Mary's Industrial School, St. Joseph's School of Industry, the
Colored House of Reformation, House of Good Shepherd for
Colored Girls, Industrial Home for Colored Girls, and to any
other reformatories to which such minors may be so com-
mitted ; and may appropriate, in conformity with the require-
ments of Sections 105 and 107 of this Article, annually a sum
of money not exceeding five thousand dollars to the Boys'
Home Society of Baltimore City, and annually a sum of money
not exceeding ten thousand dollars to the Female House of
Refuge; and to St. Vincent of Paul's Orphan Asylum of Balti-
more, any sum now due said institution for the care of desti-
tute or other minors committed by the courts or other police
magistrates to its care, or who may hereafter be committed,
not exceeding the sum of two thousand dollars per year; and
the said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore are further
authorized and empowered to appropriate for repairs, perma-
nent improvements and additions to the buildings and grounds
now used, or hereafter to be used, by the Maryland School for
Boys and its successors, such additional sum or sums of money
as in their judgment shall from time to time be required for
those purposes.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7, 1910.

CHAPTER 203.

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
City to contract with the Public Athletic League, incorpor-
ated, for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and con-
ducting gymnasia, athletic fields and recreation centers for
the benefit of the people of Baltimore City, for such length of
time and upon such terms as the Mayor and City Council
may deem advantageous.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City be
and the same is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into
agreements or contracts with the Public Athletic League,
incorporated, for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and