944 ARTICLE 26.

And the said Circuit Court for said County sitting in Juvenile Causes
shall have and exercise to the fullest extent all the powers of equity to
make and enforce by injunction, attachment for contempt, or otherwise,
and all orders or decrees that may be necessary or appropriate in the exer-
cise of the jurisdiction conferred by this sub-title, and shall have and ex-
ercise all the powers now or hereafter conferred upon the Circuit Court
for said County in the hearing, trial and determination of causes wherein
a minor may be brought before said Court by habeas corpus, and shall
have and exercise all other powers by this sub-title hereinafter expressly
conferred.

And the hearing, trial and determination of all cases of dependent,
neglected or delinquent children by the Circuit Court for said County
sitting in Juvenile Causes shall be had without regard to technicalities of
procedure or the rules of evidence, and without regard to any technical
claim of any party to said cause, and the Circuit Court for said County
sitting in Juvenile Causes may control and conduct the hearing of such
cases, in the same manner as are now controlled and conducted the hear-
ing of cases of minors brought before said Circuit Court by habeas corpus.

An. Code, sec. 49. 1916, ch. 326, sec. 3.

49. Whenever the Judges of any Judicial Circuit shall designate one
of their number to try, hear and determine the cases of such children as
aforesaid in any County of their said Circuit, then and thereafter any
resident of said County or the agent of any society incorporated under
the laws of this State for the care and protection of children, may file with
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said County a petition in writing, and
under oath, setting forth that a certain child or children, naming the same,
if the name or names be known, and also naming the parent or parents
of such child, if there be parent or parents, known to the petitioner, or
the name of the custodian of such child or children, if there be such custo-
dian known to the petitioner, and the place or places of residence of such
child or children, their parents or other custodian, where known to the
petitioner, is or are delinquent, dependent or neglected, as defined in Sec-
tion 47, and that it is for the interest of such child or children, and the
State of Maryland, that it or they be taken from its or their parent or
parents, guardian or custodian, and placed under the jurisdiction of the
Circuit Court for said County, sitting in Juvenile Causes, together with
such other pertinent facts, if any, as the petitioner may think proper to
state. The Clerk of the Circuit Court for said County shall file and pre-
serve such petition and all papers relating to such petition, and docket such
case, wherein the petitioner shall be named as plaintiff, and the child or
children, its or their parent or parents, guardian or custodian, when named,
shall be made defendants in such case. It shall be the duty of the said
Clerk to provide a suitable book or docket, to be styled the " Juvenile
Docket," which shall be carefully kept in his office and in which shall be
entered all such cases and the proceedings therein briefly as in the ordinary
Docket of his office.