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of said courts, and is now no longer in office and has attained the age of
seventy years, or if not now seventy years of age, when he shall attain said
age, shall be entitled to a salary of twenty-four hundred dollars per annum,
payable in quarterly instalments, as other judges' salaries are now paid.

Dependent and Delinquent Children.

An. Code, sec. 47. 1916, ch. 326, sec. 1.

47. For the purposes of this sub-title, the words "dependent child "
and " neglected child " shall be construed as meaning any male child under
the age of twenty years, or any female child under the age of eighteen
years, who for any cause is destitute, homeless or abandoned, or dependent
upon the public for support, or has not fit and proper parental care or
guardianship, or who is feeble-minded or otherwise mentally deficient, or
who habitually begs for alms, or is found living with vicious or depraved
persons, or has a home, which, by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity
on the part of its parent or parents, guardian or other person having charge
of it, is an unfit place for such a child or who is habitually absent from
school contrary to the public general or public local laws of Maryland in
such case made and provided.

The term " delinquent child " shall be construed as meaning any male
or female child under the ages above specified, and who, while under such
age, may violate any criminal law of the State, or is incorrigible, or know-
ingly associates with thieves, vicious or depraved persons, or is growing
up in idleness or crime, or knowingly frequents any gambling places, policy
shops or patronizes or frequents liquor or beer saloons unaccompanied by
a parent or guardian, or is guilty of indecent, immoral or lascivious conduct.
See sec. 62.

An. Code, sec. 48. 1916, ch. 326, sec. 2.

48. The judges of each of the several Judicial Circuits of the State,
now or hereafter created, shall have power to designate if all of the judges
in said circuit, in their discretion, shall deem it necessary or expedient
for each of the Circuit Courts of their said Judicial Circuit, a judge
of said Judicial Circuit to hear, try and determine the cases of depen-
dent, neglected or delinquent children found within the County wherein
said Circuit Court has jurisdiction, or whose dependency, neglect or
delinquency shall have occurred within said County; and said Circuit
Judge when designated shall be known as the Circuit Court for said
County, sitting in Juvenile causes, and when so designated shall have
jurisdiction exclusive of any and all Justices of the Peace in and for said
County in all cases of trial or commitment to any juvenile institution of
any such dependent, neglected or delinquent child; and the said Circuit
Court for said County sitting in Juvenile causes shall have plenary juris-
diction to hear, try and determine all cases of any such dependent, neg-
lected or delinquent children and to provide for the custody, control and
maintenance of such child until it shall attain the age of 21, and shall
have all other jurisdiction by this sub-title hereinafter expressly conferred.