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Girls eligible to be received into said home (the West Virginia Industrial Home for Girls) are those who are from seven to eighteen years of age, and

• May be committed by any justice of the peace on complaint and due proof that by reason of incorrigible or vicious conduct, such girl has rendered her control beyond the power of such parent, guardian or next friend, and made it manifestly best that such girl should be placed in said home;
• Girls may be so committed for vagrancy up to eighteen years of age or where parents, guardians or next friends agree and contract with the board of directors for their support and maintenance;
• Girls up to fifteen years of age, who may be found in houses of ill fame or assignation houses, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, mayor of a town or city;
• Girls convicted by any of the courts of this State of felony or misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment, may be assigned by the judge provided there is room there for such girl;
  
• Every girl committed to said home shall remain there until she is twenty-one years of age, unless sooner discharged by the board of directors.

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