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execute his process, orders and direction within the corporate limits of the
City of Cumberland.

1914, ch. 701, sec. 184D.

373. Any minor shall be considered dependent or delinquent who vio-
lates 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 interest of the child
and of society in assuming or directing the guardianship of such minor.
When a minor under the age of sixteen 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.

1914, ch. 701, sec. 184E.

374. Any person causing, encouraging or contributing towards the
delinquency or dependency! of any minor as herein defined, and any per-
son charged by law with the care, 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 ($10) dollars nor more than five hundred ($500)
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 separate 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 Magistrate, (or as the Circuit Court for
said County, if the case be before said Court) may deem proper, the per-
formance of said terms to be secured by the detention of the offender or
by recognizance entered into by or on his or her behalf, as said Magis-
trate of said Court may adjudge.

1914, ch. 701, sec. 184F.

375. In the case of the absence, illness, disability or disqualification of
the Juvenile Magistrate, it shall be the duty of the City Magistrate of
Cumberland, Maryland, to perform the duties required by this Act of the
said Magistrate for Juvenile Cases pending such absence, illness, disabil-
ity or disqualification*

*Sec. 2 of ch. 701, 1914, repeals all laws inconsistent therewith.