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CHAPTER 611.
AN ACT to amend Article 4 of the Code of Public Local
Laws, title "City of Baltimore," by changing a sub-title
thereof, and by adding thereto three Sections relating to the
trial and commitment of minors, the appointment of pro-
bation officers for the protection of such minors, and the
powers and duties of such probation officers.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General. Assembly of
Maryland, That the following sections be added to Article 4
of the Code of Public Local Laws, title "City of Baltimore,"
sub-title "Justices of the Peace and Constables," to follow
section 623 as now enacted, and to be known and numbered
as section 623 A of the said Article.
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Section 623 A. In addition to the justices of the peace men-
tioned in section 623 of this Article, the Governor, by and with ;
the advice and consent of the Senate, and if the Senate shall
not be in session then by the Governor, shall appoint from
the city of Baltimore tit large an additional justice of the peace,
who shall be appointed from such ward as the Governor may
elect, shall be known as "The Magistrate for Juvenile Causes,"
who shall be a member of the bar of the Supreme Bench of
Baltimore City, and shall receive from the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore a salary of two thousand one hundred
dollars per annum, payable monthly, and the additional justice
provided for in this section of this Article shall have exclusive
jurisdiction of all cases of trial, or commitment for trial, or
of commitment to any reformatory or other institution, of
all minors under sixteen years of age in all cases where juris-
diction thereof is given by law to any justice of the peace in
Baltimore city, and such justice shall hear and dispose of all
such cases at such place and as shall be designated by the Board
of Police Commissioners of Baltimore city, and he shall sit
during the same hours as the police magistrates of said city.
Whenever any such child shall be arrested it may be taken to
such place other than one of the station houses, as may be
designated by the Board of Police Commissioners, but in the
absence of such designation such child may be held at a
station house as heretofore until he shall be brought before
the magistrate. When such justice shall commit any such
child for the action of the grand jury, such commitment may
be to any suitable reformatory institution, having due regard
to the sex of the said child and the wishes of its parents or
guardian, if it have any, instead of to the Baltimore city jail,
n the absence of the additional justice provided for in this
section, either from sickness or other cause, the Board of Police
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Additional
Justices of the
peace.
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