J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR 29

That Section 408 of the Charter and Public Local Laws of Baltimore
City (1949 Ed. ), sub-title "Justices of the Peace and Constables",
be and the same is hereby repealed in its entirety.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That sub-section (e) of Section
428 of the Charter and Public Local Laws of Baltimore City (1949
Ed. ), sub-title, "Justices of the Peace and Constables", as the same
was enacted by Chapter 458 of the Acts of 1951, be and it is hereby
repealed and re-enacted with amendments, to read as follows:

428 (e). All females and children under sixteen years of age
arrested upon any criminal charge, whether under the laws of Mary-
land or of the City of Baltimore, [shall be taken before the Justice
of the Peace sitting in a station-house designated by the Police
Commissioner of Baltimore City as the "Women's Court" who shall
take jurisdiction of the case and dispose of such case promptly; pro-
vided, however, that in cases where a female or a child under sixteen
years of age is jointly charged with a male over sixteen years of age,
the preliminary hearing or trial, as the case may be, shall be held
before the Justice of the Peace having jurisdiction over the ^ case
against the male over sixteen years of age. The Police Commissioner
may, in his discretion, designate one or more station-houses as a
"Women's Court "71 shall be detained at the Pine Street Station House
of the Baltimore City Police. Said children shall there be detained
in a room or quarters separate from adult offenders.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That Section 428 (d) of the
Charter and Public Local Laws of Baltimore City (1949 Ed. ), sub-
title, "Justices of the Peace and Constables", as the same was enacted
by Chapter 458 of the Acts of 1951, be and the same is hereby re-
pealed.

. [428 (d). All children under sixteen years of age taken into
custody as delinquent children and not released under the provisions
of Section 246 of the Charter and Public Local Laws of Baltimore
City (1949 Edition) shall be taken to a station-house designated by
the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City as the "Women's Court"
and there be detained in a room or quarters separate from adult
offenders pending the delivery of such children to the Circuit Court
of Baltimore City, Division for Juvenile Causes, for hearing. ]

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby declared
to be an emergency measure and necessary for the immediate pres-
ervation of the public health and safety, and having been passed
by a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths of all of the members
elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly of Mary-
land, the same (a) shall take effect from the date of its passage;
(b) shall terminate or be of no effect as of the time that Chapter 616
of the Laws of the General Assembly of Maryland enacted at its
Regular Session in 1961, becomes or became effective, otherwise to
remain in full force and effect; and (e) shall not be construed as
repealing, by implication or otherwise, the aforesaid Chapter 616,
or any part thereof.

Approved June 12, 1961.