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for the interest of the child and the community. All orders of the Court
or Judge shall be noted fully in the docket provided for by this Act, and
the originals carefully preserved in the Clerk's office, and a duplicate copy
made and presented to the guardian so appointed.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 168.

186. The said Circuit Court for Harford County, or the Judge desig-
nated as hereinbefore provided, shall when sitting for the discharge of
the duties imposed by this Act, be known as the "Circuit Court for Har-
ford County, sitting as a Juvenile Court," and shall have exclusive juris-
diction, where jurisdiction is given by law to any Justice of the Peace in

and for Harford County, in all cases of trial or commitment to any juve-
aile institution of any minor specified in this Act.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 169.

187. No Justice of the Peace shall commit for any reason a child
under fourteen years of age to a jail or police station to be confined with
other prisoners. If any such child shall be unable to give bail for his or
her appearance before the said Circuit Court for Harford County, he or
she shall be committed to the care of a probation officer of said Court or
to the custody of some society or juvenile institution organized for the
care of children.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 170.

188. Any person who shall contribute to or encourage deliquency or
dependency of any minor as hereinbefore defined; or any person charged
by law with the care and support of any minor who shall wilfully neglect
to perform his or her duty to such child, or any person who shall advise
or encourage any child to leave the home, school or institution to which
such child shall have been committed by the Court or Judge, and any
person who shall interfere in any way with the execution of any order
made or passed by the Court or Judge in the exercise of the powers con-
ferred by this Act, may be cited before such Court or Judge, and upon
conviction of the offense charged against him by such Court or Judge,
shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars, or may be committed to the
County Jail for a term not exceeding sixty days, but if the person so
charged with the offense shall pray a jury trial, such case shall be referred
to the Circuit Court, and there be tried before a Jury as other criminal
cases are tried. Provided, however, that nothing contained herein shall
be construed to deprive the Judge or Court sitting as a Juvenile Court
of the powers now conferred upon the Judge or Court to punish for
contempt.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 171.

189. All fines imposed by the Court or Judge under this Act, shall
be collected as fines are now collected by the Circuit Court for Harford
County in the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, and when so collected