PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 671

magistrate at his discretion. Whenever any minor is arrested
he may be taken to such place, other than a station-house or
jail, as may be designated by said magistrate, but in the absence
of such designation, such minor may be held at a station-house
until brought before said magistrate, and when said magistrate
shall commit any minor for trial or for hearing he may com-
mit such minor to a suitable institution instead of the jail.
The Board of County Commissioners for said county shall
designate one or more constables, and the Mayor and City
Council of Cumberland shall designate one or more members
of the police force to attend such magistrate and execute his
process, orders and directions.

SEC. 184B. Any minor shall be considered dependent or
delinquent who violates State, county or municipal law or
whose associations, habits or surroundings are such as to expose
the minor to physical injury or to immorality or vice, or who
is destitute, abandoned or homeless, or whose home, by reason
of cruelty or vice on the part of the parents, guardian or other
custodian of such minor, is an unfit place for such minor, or
whose environment is such as to warrant the State in the inter-
est of the child and society in assuming or directing the guard-
ianship of such minor. When a minor under the age of six-
teen years comes under the cognizance of said magistrate such
minor shall continue for necessary purposes of discipline and
protection a ward of Court until said minor attains the age of
twenty-one years.

SEC. 184C. Any person causing, encouraging or contribut-
ing towards the delinquency of dependency of any minor as
herein defined, and any person charged by law with the case,
support or maintenance of any such minor and who wilfully
fails, neglects or refuses to care for, support or maintain said
minor or who abandons such minor shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and on conviction or pleading guilty thereof, may
be fined not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than five hun-
dred dollars or imprisoned in the House of Correction not
exceeding two years, or both fined and imprisoned; and each
day of such failure, neglect or refusal shall constitute a sepa-
rate offense, and the accused may demand a jury trial and be
committed or bailed pending the same. Any person pleading
guilty, or tried, convicted and sentenced under this act for the
abandonment of, or for the neglect of, or failure to maintain
or support a minor, may be sentenced as hereinbefore stated,
or may in lieu thereof, be paroled on such terms as said magis-
trate (or as Circuit Court for said county, if the case be
before said Court), may deem proper, the performance of said