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Relief to Sheriffs and Collectors. 40. May extend time for collecting fees and taxes. 41. Also to their sureties and personal re- presentatives. 42. Notice to comptroller and county com- missioners. 43. Not to affect remedies of comptroller, county commissioners, or others in- terested. Removal of Cases from Courts of Law to Courts of Equity. 44. Removal of causes from courts of law to courts of equity, and vice versa. Salaries of Judges. 45. Salaries of judges. Pensions of Judges. 46. Payment of pensions, after retirement from bench. Dependent and Delinquent Children. 47. Explanation of terms. 48. Circuit court sitting in juvenile causes; jurisdiction, procedure. 49-50. Practice. 51. Clerk. 52. Probation officers. 53. Jury trial. 54. Disposition of child.

55. Children committed to institution. 56-57. Cost of maintenance. Court costs. 58. Children under 14 not to be committed to jail or police station; bail. 59. Encouraging delinquency, prohibited; penalty. 60. Jurisdiction of justices, when not af- fected ; commitments. 61. Jurisdiction of circuit courts enlarged. 62. Baltimore city, sub-title not applicable to. Minors without Proper Care or Guardianship. 63. Who may be proceeded against under this sub-title. 64. Procedure in court. 65. Judgment — enforcement; bond. 66. Jury trial. 67-68. Bond, proceedings against; commit- ment. 69-70. Construction of sub-title; prosecu- tions. 71. Fine. 72. Jurisdiction; conviction and sentence. 73. Effect of unconstitutional provision. Judicial Council. 74. How constituted. 75. Vacancy. 76. Reports. 77. Powers. 78. Expenses.

General Provisions.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1715, ch. 41, sec. 2.

1. The judges of the several courts of law and of equity may make
such rules and orders from time to time for the well-governing and regu-
lating their respective courts and the officers and suitors thereof and under
such fines and forfeitures as they shall think fit, not exceeding twenty dol-
lars for any one offense, all of which fines shall go to the State.

This section referred to in upholding abatement of a case under a rule of court
providing such abatement where a case remained on stet docket for four continuous
terms, etc. Laurel Canning Co. v. B. & O. R. R. Co., 115 Md. 642.

The courts have full power and authority to prescribe rules. Gambrill v. Parker,
31 Md. 5. See also Ricketts v. Pendleton, 14 Md. 330.

While the court of appeals cannot pass upon whether a rule of a trial court which
is in its power to pass, is a wise or proper one, any error by a trial court as to the
legal effect of the rule or its application to a particular case, may be reversed on
appeal. Gist v. Drakely, 2 Gill, 346. See also Dunbar v. Conway, 11 G. & J. 97.

Rules being established, the court has no discretion to dispense with them, or to
innovate on established practice. Hughes v. Jackson, 12 Md. 463; Gist v. Drakely,
2 Gill, 346; Wall v. Wall, 2 H. & G. 81.

Courts will sometimes enlarge or suspend their rules when ends of justice require
it. Carroll v. Barber, 7 H. & J. 456.