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such Judge to make an order requiring the Sheriff of Harford County,

or some constable of the County, or the probation officer hereinafter named,
to serve summons upon all parties named in said proceedings as defend-
ants, to be and appear before such Court at the hour and upon the day
therein named, and the Court, or such designated Judge thereof, may, in
its or his discretion, adopt all necessary means to have the body of the

child named in the proceedings brought before the Judge of Court at any
designated time. It shall be the duty of the Clerk to issue summons for
any and all witnesses required by any petitioner to appear at the hearing

of his or her petition. And any person failing to obey such summons,
shall, in the absence of sufficient excuse, be subject to a fine not exceeding
fifty dollars ($50.00) or confinement in the County Jail not exceeding
thirty days.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 164.

182. The Circuit Court for Harford County or such Judge as may be
designated by said Court to hear and determine the cases provided for
in this Act, may select some one of the Deputy Clerks (other than a
recording clerk) employed in the office of the Clerk of said Court to act
as Clerk of the Court in the exercise of the powers conferred upon said
Court by this Act, which clerk so selected shall have charge of the docket
hereinbefore provided for, and shall be present whenever the Court or
Judge may sit for hearing cases under the provisions of this Act, and
make all proper entries in said docket. That said Court or Judge shall
have the power to direct the Clerk to have printed such forms of petitions,
orders and papers as the Court may deem requisite for the proper and
Convenient discharge of its duties under this Act; the cost of such print-
ing to be paid for by the County Commissioners of Harford County, and
to be charged to the item of Court Expenses.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 165.

183. The Circuit Court for Harford County, or the Judge designated
by the Court for the purpose of hearing cases under the provisions of
this Act, shall appoint one or more probation officers, who may be either
male or female, who shall be paid a salary to be fixed by the Court in
monthly installments by the County Commissioners of Harford County.
It shall be the duty of such probation officer or officers to inform himself
or themselves when any child is to be brought into Court, and to make
investigation of all such cases, to be present in Court to represent the
interest of the child when the case is heard, and to furnish the Clerk such
information and assistance as the Court or Judge may require, and to
take charge of such child before or after the trial as the Court may direct,
and whenever such probation officer shall have knowledge of any depend-
ent, neglected, or delinquent child, it shall be the duty of such, officer to
faring the same to the attention of the Court or the Judge by petition, as
hereinbefore provided. In addition to the salary above provided for such
probation officer, he or she shall be allowed for all actual traveling ex-