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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 Three hun-
dred dollars per annum for each minor so committed to the
following reformatories: Maryland School for Boys, St. Mary's
Industrial School, 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 committed; and may appropriate in conformity with the
requirements of section 105-107 of this article annually, a
sum of money not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5, 000)
to the Boys' Home Society of Baltimore City; and to St.
Vincent's Male Orphan Asylum of Baltimore City any sum
now due said institution for care of destitute 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 ten thousand dollars per year and the said Mayor and
City Council of Baltimore are further authorized and empower-
ed to appropriate for repairs, permanent 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 1, 1927.

CHAPTER 311.

AN ACT to provide for the preparation of a new edition of the
Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland.

WHEREAS, there has been no edition of the Code of Public
Local Laws of Maryland since 1888; and

WHEREAS, there is great need for a new edition of said Code
therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Horace E. Flack be and he is hereby appointed to
prepare and submit to the Governor of the State for publica-
tion, a new edition of the Code of Public Local Laws of Mary-