BALTIMORE COUNTY. 805

APPENDIX.

JUVENILE COURT ACT.

1914, ch. 171.

Section 1. For the purposes of this Act, the words "dependent child"
and "neglected child" shall be construed as meaning any male child living
in Baltimore County and being under the age of twenty years, or any fe-
male child living in said county being 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 any vicious or depraved person, or
has a home which, by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity on the part of
its parent or parents, guardian or other persons having charge of it, is an
unfit place for such a child.

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

Chapter 326, Acts of 1916, a Public General Law conferred upon all the Circuit
Courts of Maryland powers similar to those here conferred upon the courts of the
Third Judicial Circuit.

1914, ch. 171.

Sec. 2. All such children described in the aforegoing section, and re-
siding in Baltimore County, are declared to be wards of the State, and
the judges of the courts of the Third Judicial Circuit of Maryland, sitting
as a Court of Equity, shall have full power to deal with such children
when brought before such court, and full jurisdiction over the disposition
of such child or children. And the said court shall have the power to
designate one of its judges to hear, determine and dispose of all such cases
and to adopt such rules and regulations for the trial and disposition of
such cases as to said court may seem reasonable and proper.

1914, ch. 171.

Sec. 3. Any person of respectable standing in his or her community
and being a resident of said county, or the agent of any society incor-
porated under the laws of this State for the care and protection of chil-
dren, may file with the clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County,
on the equity side thereof, a petition in writing setting forth that a certain