and the said mayor and city council are further authorized and empowered to appropriate for repairs, permanent improvements and additions to the buildings now occupied and used by said house of refuge, such additional sum or sums of money as in their judgment shall from time to time be required for these purposes.

House of Refuge-Female.

1888, art. 27, sec. 372. 1866, ch. 156, 1870, ch. 391. 1872, ch. 218.

1880, ch. 173.

530. The affairs of "The Female House of Refuge" shall be managed by thirty directors, fifteen of whom shall be chosen annually by the members on the first Tuesday in January, and five of whom shall be appointed annually in the month of January by the mayor of the city of Baltimore, with the advice and consent of the city council, and ten of whom, to be severally resident of some county in this State, shall be appointed biennially in the month of January by the governor of the State with the advice and consent of the senate; and in case of failure to appoint or elect, at the times hereinbefore mentioned, they shall be appointed or elected as soon thereafter as possible; and a special meeting of the members may be called by the directors, at any time after such failure, for the purpose of a special election by them; and in all cases the directors shall hold office until their successors are appointed or elected; and seven of said directors shall constitute a quorum; but vacancies shall be filled by the concurrent vote of not less than a majority of the whole number remaining.

Ibid. sec. 373. 1866, ch. 156. 1870, ch. 391. 1872, ch. 218. 1880, ch. 173. 531. The directors of said institution shall have, as to female juvenile delinquents, all the powers and fulfill all the duties had and fulfilled by the directors of the house of refuge; and the provisions of sections 524, 525 and 526 shall be applicable to this institution throughout the State.

1890, ch. 435, sec. 373 A.

532. Every person who has paid or shall hereafter pay to the funds of said institution fifty dollars in any one year, or ten dollars annually for the term of six years shall be a member for life; and every person paying any sum not less than five dollars shall be for one year next after such payment a member of said institution, and the treasurer's book shall be

prima facie evidence of such membership; but permanent members may be elected by the directors from time to time on such terms as the directors may prescribe.

Industrial Home for Colored Girls.

1888, art. 27, sec. 374. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 1.

533. The industrial home for colored girls is a body corporate and politic and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession with power to have and use a common seal and to change the same at pleasure; to make contracts relative to said institution; to sue and be used, and by that name and style shall be capable of purchasing, taking, holding and conveying any real estate or personal property, or receiving the same by gift, deed, will or bequest or otherwise for the use of the corporation, and to establish by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of said institution and the preservation and application of the funds thereof, and may appoint such officers, agents and servants as they may deem proper to transact the business of the said corporation and designate and prescribe their duties. The special object of the said industrial home for colored girls shall be the care, reformation and instruction of colored female minors who shall be admitted or committed to the care and supervision thereof as hereinafter provided.

Ibid. sec. 375. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 2.

534. Every person who shall pay the sum of one hundred dollars or more into the treasury of said institution at one time shall be an honorary life director thereof, and every person who shall contribute the sum of fifty dollars shall be a life member thereof, and every person who contributes the sum of five dollars or more annually shall be a member thereof while he or she continues to contribute said sum, and all the said parties so contributing shall be entitled to vote at the annual election for managers and have the right to participate in all meetings of the members of the said institution.

Ibid. sec. 376. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 3.

535. The property and concerns of the said corporation shall be managed by a board of managers consisting of eleven persons, two of whom shall be appointed by the governor of the State for the term of two years as other State appointments are made; two shall be appointed by the mayor of the city of Baltimore annually as other municipal appointments

are made, and seven shall be annually elected by the members of the said corporation at the annual meeting under rules and regulations to be provided for in the by-laws; five of said managers shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. The said board of managers shall appoint from their own body a president, a secretary and treasurer and prescribe the duties of each. The treasurer, before entering upon. his duties, shall give a bond in the sum of five thousand dollars, to be approved by the board of managers.

1888, art. 27, sec. 377. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 4.

536. Whenever any vacancy in the board of managers shall occur from any cause the same shall be filled by the appointment of the remaining members of the board if such vacancy occurs among those elected by the members, or by the governor or mayor if said vacancy occurs among those appointed by them; and the said board of managers shall continue to act until their successors are duly appointed; and in case the annual election shall not be held for any reason, the said corporation shall not thereby be dissolved.

Ibid. sec. 378. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 5.

537. The board of managers shall provide a suitable building within the State, and establish such regulations respecting the religious and moral education, training, employment, discipline and safe keeping of its inmates as may be deemed expedient and proper; and the grounds and buildings which may be erected thereon for the said industrial home for colored girls shall be exempt and free of all taxes; no public streets, lanes or alleys, roads or railroads or canals of any kind shall be opened through the lands of the said institution, when the same are exclusively used or appropriated for the purposes of its incorporation, except with the consent of the board of

managers.

Ibid. sec. 379. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 6.

538. The board of managers shall take into said institution all such colored female minors under the age of eighteen years as shall be taken up and committed as street beggars or vagrants, or who shall be convicted of criminal offenses, or who shall be committed under the provisions of article 4, code of public local laws, title "City of Baltimore," sub-title "Vagrants;" but whenever any colored female under the age of eighteen years

shall be convicted in any of the courts of this State of any offense, or of vagrancy, the judge of said court, in his discretion, and with reference to the character of the industrial home for colored girls as a place of reform, and not of punishment, may order the minor so convicted to be removed to and confined in the said industrial home for colored girls.

539. The board of managers shall have power to bind out girls committed to their care as apprentices until they reach 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 be most conducive to their reformation and advantage; and the indentures by which said children shall be bound shall contain the covenants, and shall be recorded as prescribed by this code; and all the provisions of the code in relation to white apprentices shall apply to apprentices bound under this section.

Ibid. sec. 381. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 8.

540. The manner of receiving inmates into the industrial. home for colored girls shall be in either of the following modes, namely: First. Colored girls under the age of eighteen may be committed by a justice of the peace for the city of Baltimore or any of the counties of this State on complaint and due proof made to him by the parent, guardian or next friend of such girl that, by reason of incorrigible or vicious conduct, such minor has rendered her control beyond the power of such parent, guardian or next friend, and made it manifestly requisite that from regard for the morals and future welfare of such minor and the peace and order of society, she should be placed under the guardianship of the industrial home for colored girls. Second. Colored girls under the age of eighteen years may be committed by the authority aforesaid when complaint and due proof shall have been made that such minor is a proper subject for the guardianship of the industrial home for colored girls in consequence 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 unable or unwilling to exercise the proper care and discipline over such incorrigible or vicious minor. Third. Such colored girls under the age of eighteen years as their

parents, guardians or friends may desire to place therein for temporary restraint and discipline, and whose parents, guardians or friends shall agree and contract with the managers for their support and maintenance. Fourth. Such colored girls under the age of eighteen as may be committed by the several courts of this State; provided, however, that the said board of managers shall have the right and power to refuse admission to any such female if, in their judgment, they may be unable to take proper care of them by reason of disease or other cause, or, having received them, to discharge or return them to their parents, or send them to the almshouses of the several counties, or other institutions, wherein they had their last residences, respectively, if, in the opinion of the board of managers, the interests of the inmates of the institution demand and require it.

1888, art. 27, sec. 382. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 9.

541. The mayor and city council of Baltimore are authorized and empowered to appropriate annually towards the current expenses, or for the benefit of the industrial home for colored girls, any sum of money they may deem proper.

Ibid. sec. 383. 1882, ch. 291, sec. 10.

542. The board of managers shall make a report to the general assembly at each regular session thereof of the number of colored girls received by them into said institution; the disposition made of them by instructing or employing them therein or by binding them out as apprentices; the receipts and expenditures of said managers, and generally all such facts and particulars as may tend to exhibit the effects, whether beneficial or otherwise, of the said institution.

St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys.

Ibid. sec. 384. 1867, ch. 402. 1874, ch. 288.

543. St. Mary's industrial school for boys of the city of Baltimore is empowered to receive in charge such orphan and other destitute boys as may be committed to the charge of said. body corporate and to bind out such boys until they shall attain the age of twenty-one years; and any court or justice of the peace of this State shall have power and authority, in the discretion of the judge of such court or such justice, to commit to the charge of said institution any destitute white boy, or any white boy convicted before such court or justice of any