Danton

The New York Foundling Hospital is a corporation of the state of New York. Its charter was amended by chapter 635, Laws of New York, of the year 1872, which statute was in force at all times herein mentioned. That law authorized the corporation to receive and keep under its care, charge, custody, and management, certain classes of children. The corporation was given power, when children in their care attained a proper age, to place them at suitable employments and cause them to be instructed in suitable branches of knowledge, and had discretion to bind out or indenture such children as clerks, apprentices, or servants, to some profession, trade, or employment, for such time or period as they may deem proper, not exceeding, however, in the case • of girls, the age of eighteen years. Section 6 reads as follows: “In the case of the death of any master to whom any child shall have been bound to service under the provisions of this act . . . then such death shall have the effect to cancel and annul the indenture or contract of service; and thereupon the said corporation shall resume the charge and management of such child and have the same power and authority with regard to it as…