228 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Maryland, that it or they be taken from its or their parent or
parents, guardian or custodian, and placed under the jurisdic-
tion of the Equity Court for Baltimore County, together with
such other pertinent facts, if any, as the petitioner may think
proper to state. The Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore
County shall file and preserve such petition and all papers
relating to such petition, and docket such case, wherein the
petitioner shall be named as plaintiff,"and the child or chil-
dren, its or their parent or parents, guardian or custodian,
when named, shall be made defendants in such case. It shall
be the duty of the said Clerk to provide a suitable book or
docket, to be styled the "Juvenile Docket," which shall be
carefully kept in his office and in which shall be entered all
such cases and the proceedings therein briefly as in the Equity
Docket of his office.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the said Clerk shall immedi-
ately upon the filing of the petition and making the proper
docket entries as provided in the preceding Section, call the at-
tention of the Court to the same, and it shall be the duty of the
Court, or in the event of the designation of one of the Judges
of said Court to investigate and pass on such cases, it shall be
the duly of such Judge to make an order requiring the Sheriff
of Baltimore County, or some constable of the County, or the
probation officer hereinafter named, to serve a summons upon
all parties named in said proceedings as defendants, to be and
appear before such Court at the hour and upon the day there-
in named, and the Court, or such designated Judge thereof,
may, in its or his discretion, adopt all necessary means to have
the body of the child named in the proceedings brought before
the Judge or Court at any designated time. It shall be the
duty of the Clerk to issue summons for any and all witnesses
required by any petitioner to appear at the hearing of his or
her petition. And any person failing to obey such summons,
shall, in the absence of sufficient excuse, be subject to a fine not
exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00), or confinement in the County
Jail not exceeding thirty days.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the Circuit Court for Balti-
more County, or such Judge as may be designated by said
Court to hear and determine the cases provided for in this Act,
may select some one of the Deputy Clerks, (other than a re-
cording clerk) employed in the office of the Clerk of said Court
to act as Clerk of the Court in the exercise of the powers con-
ferred upon said Court by this Act, which clerk so selected