1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 205.

committed to their care, with the consent of such
children, as apprentices, during their minority,
that is to say: males until the age of twenty-one
years, and the females until the age of eighteen
years, to such persons and places, whether in or
out of this State, and to learn such proper trades
or employments as in the judgment of the said
managers will he most conducive to the reforma-
tion and the future benefit and advantage of such

Indentures.

children; and the indentures by which said chil-
dren shall be bound shall contain the covenants,
and shall be recorded as prescribed by article sixth
of the Code, and all the provisions of the said arti-
cle in relation to white apprentices shall apply to
apprentices bound under this section.

Manner of
receiving in-
mates.

SEC. 2. The manner of receiving inmates into the
House of Refuge shall be in either of the following
modes, namely: First, white minors may be com-
mitted by a justice of the peace for any of the coun-
ties or the city of Baltimore, on complaint, and
due proof made to him by the parent, guardian, or
next friend of such minor, that by reason of incor-
rigible or vicious conduct such minor has rendered
his or her control beyond the power of such parent,
guardian, or next friend, and made it manifestly
requisite that from regard for the morals and fu-
ture welfare of such minor and the peace and order
of society, he or she should be placed under the
guardianship of the House of Refuge; second,
white minors may be committed by the authority
aforesaid, when complaint and due proof have been
made that such minor is a proper subject for the
guardianship of the House of Refuge, in conse-
quence of vagrancy or of incorrigible or vicious
conduct, and that from the moral depravity or
otherwise of the parent, guardian or next friend,
in whose custody such minor may be, such parent,
guardian or next friend is incapable or unwilling
to exercise the proper care and discipline over such
incorrigible or vicious minor; third, such children
as their parents, guardians or friends may desire to
place them therein for temporary restraint and
discipline, and whose parents, guardians or friends
shall agree and contract with the managers for
their support and maintenance; and fourth, minors

Appropria-
tion.

committed by the several courts of this State, as
provided in this article, and the annual sum of ten
thousand dollars, to commence on the tenth of