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PLACES OF IMPRISONMENT AND REFORMATION. [ART. 74.

Id s 10
Eeport to
General
Assembly.

145. They shall make a report to the General Assembly at each
regular session thereof, of the number of minors received by them
into the House of Reformation and Instruction, the disposition
which shall be made of such minors, 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 bene-
ficial or otherwise, of the said association.

Id s 11
Bond of
treasurer

146. The treasurer, before he shall enter upon the duties of
his office, shall give bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars
for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office.

Id s 12.
Building
regulations.

147, The board of managers shall provide a suitable build-
ing in any part of the State of Maryland and establish such regu-
lations respecting the religious and moral education, training, em-
ployment, discipline, and safe-keeping of its inhabitants, as may be
deemed expedient and proper.

Id s 13
Free of tax.

148. The ground and the buildings which may be erected
thereon, for said House of Reformation and Instruction, shall be
free of tax.

Id s 14.
Streets, etc ,
not to be opened
thiough
property.

149. No public streets, alleys, roads, railroads, or canals of any
kind, shall be opened through the lands, or any part of the lands,
of the House of Reformation and Instruction, where the same are
exclusively used or appropriated for the purposes of its incorpora-

Exception.

tion, except with the consent of the board of managers.

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What colored
children to be
committed.

150. The board of managers shall have power, in their discre-
tion, to take into said house all such colored children as shall be
taken up and committed as street beggars or vagrants, or shall be
convicted of criminal offences, or as in hereafter provided for, in the
case of application of parents or guardians.

Id s 16.
Employment
and instruction
of children

151. They shall have power to place the children committed to
their care, during the minority of such children, at such employ-
ments, and cause them to be instructed in such branches of useful
knowledge as may be suited to their years and capacities

Id s 17.
Power to bind
out as appren-
tices, and bow.

152. The managers of the House of Reformation and Instruction
shall have power to bind out the children 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 be most
conducive to the reformation and the future benefit and advantage
of such children; and the indentures by which such children shall
be bound shall contain the covenants and shall be recorded as pre-
scribed by Article LIV of this Code relating to Apprentices, and all
the provisions of the said article in relation to white apprentices
shall apply to apprentices bound under this section.

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Manner of
receiving in-
mates

153, The manner of receiving inmates into the House of Reforma-
tion and Instruction shall be in either of the following modes, namely: