HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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or out of this State, or may procure other employment for such
infant in or out of this State, and shall have power to compel
such infant to comply with the terms of its judgment; but such
infant shall not be bound to service in the county or city where
the conviction was had, nor for a term extending beyond the age
of eighteen years.]

[630.

All infants over twelve and under the age of fifteen years
who may be convicted of mayhem, murder in the second degree,
manslaughter, assault with intent to commit murder or mayhem, or
of setting fire to any building, tenement, or property, the
setting fire to which is punishable by confinement in the
penitentiary in the case of adults, shall be sentenced to the
penitentiary for the said crime in the same manner as if they
were of full age, or in the discretion of the court may be
confined in the House of Refuge (Maryland Training School for
Boys) or Saint Mary's Industrial School, or the Cheltenham School
for Boys (Boys' Village of Maryland).]

[631.

Any court in this State having criminal jurisdiction may
bind out to the managers of any house of refuge or other
institution under police regulations within the limits of the
State all infants over twelve and under the age of fifteen years,
until they shall arrive at an age of eighteen, who shall be
convicted of any offense punishable in adults by confinement in
the penitentiary, other than those specified in § 630 of this
article.]

[632.

It shall be the duty of every court having criminal
jurisdiction to examine into the character of all infants
convicted of offenses for which they may be bound as apprentices
under § 631 of this article, and to exercise a sound discretion
in determining whether the said infant so convicted should be
bound out in accordance with existing laws, or should be
sentenced to the penitentiary in the same manner with adults
convicted of like crimes, and to bind out or sentence such
infants accordingly.]

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall
take effect July 1, 1985.

Approved May 21, 1985.