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years of age shall cause such child to attend school or receive instruc-
tions as required by this section. Children over fourteen years of age
and under the age of sixteen years, and every person having under his
control such a child shall be subject to the requirements of this section,
unless such children are regularly and lawfully employed to labor at
home or elsewhere; provided, however, that this section shall not apply
to Baltimore City; provided further, that this section shall apply only
in those counties where the Board of County School Commissioners
shall approve the same and appoint an attendance officer or attendance
officers for its enforcement as provided in the Act of 1912, Chapter
173.*

1904, art. 77, sec. 152. 1902, ch. 269, sec. 125. 1912, ch. 173, sec. 125.

154. Any person who has a child under his control and who fails
to comply with any of the provisions of the preceding sections, 153 and
153A, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be fined not exceed-
ing five dollars for each offense.*

Ibid. sec. 153. 1902, ch. 269, sec. 126. 1912, ch. 173, sec. 126

155. Any person who induces or attempts to induce any child to
absent himself unlawfully from school, or employs or harbors while
school is in session any child absent unlawfully from school shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined not more than fifty
dollars.*

Ibid. sec. 154. 1902, ch. 269, sec. 127. 1912, ch. 173, sec. 127.

156. The Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City shall
appoint and may remove at pleasure one "chief attendance officer,"
male or female and in addition such number of "attendance officers"
not exceeding eighteen as it may deem proper. Their compensation
shall be paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. The Boards
of School Commissioners of the several counties may appoint and may
remove at pleasure for their respective counties or any part thereof
such number of "attendance officers," male or female, as they may deem
necessary or desirable and fix their compensation from the general
school fund of the respective counties.*

Ibid. sec. 155. 1902, ch. 269, sec. 128. 1912, ch. 173, sec. 128.

157. It shall be the duty of each attendance officer, and said officer
shall have full power, within the city or county for which he or she
may be appointed, to arrest without warrant any child between eight
and sixteen years of age found away from his home, and who is a truant
from school, or who fails to attend school in accordance with the pro-

*A "saving" clause is contained in section 4 of the acts of 1912, chapter 173,
and it is further provided in said section that nothing in chapter 173 should be
taken to apply to Howard, Kent, Anne Arundel, Worcester, St. Mary's and Som-
erset Counties, the law as it existed prior to said act remaining in force in those
counties. The act of 1912, chapter 173, went into effect August 1, 1912.