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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 521.

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments Section

623A of Article 4 of the Code of Public Local Laws, title

"City of Baltimore," as amended by the Act of 1902, Chap-

ter 611, sub-title "Justices of the Peace and Constables."

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-

Amending sec-

land, That Section 623A of Article 4 of the Code of Public

tion.

Local Laws, title "City of Baltimore," as amended by the Act

of 1902, Chapter 611, sub-title "Justices of the Peace and

Constables," be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted

so as to read as follows :

623 A. In addition to the justices of the peace mentioned in

Magistrate for

Section 623 of this Article there shall be appointed by the

juvenile
causes.

Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,

and if the Senate shall not be in session, by the Governor,

from the City of Baltimore at large, an additional justice of the

peace to be known as the Magistrate for Juvenile Causes, who

shall be a member of the bar of the Supreme Bench of Bal-

timore City, and shall receive from the Mayor and City Coun-

cil of Baltimore City a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars

per annum, payable monthly, and the jurisdiction and powers

of such justice shall be as follows: (I) He shall possess the

general powers of a police justice of the peace or justice of the

peace selected to sit at a station house in the City of Baltimore,

as the same are now or may hereafter be defined by law. (2)

Exclusive ju-

He shall have exclusive jurisdiction where jurisdiction is

risdiction.

given by law to any justice of the peace in Baltimore City, in

all cases of trial, commitment for trial or commitment to any

juvenile institution of any minor under the age of sixteen years,

and such magistrate shall sit at such times as may be necessary

for the proper discharge of his duties, at such proper place in

the Court House in Baltimore City, as may be provided by the

Superintendent of Public Buildings. (3) He is empowered

to appoint a suitable person to act as his clerk, who shall re-

ceive from the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore a salary

of seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum, payable monthly,

and shall attend at such times and places and perform such

duties as may be directed by said justice, and shall be removable

by him at his discretion. Whenever any minor is arrested he

may be taken to such place other than a station house as may be

designated by said justice and provided by the Superintendent

of Public Buildings or the Mayor and City Council of Balti-

more, but in the absence of such designation such minor may