806 ARTICLE 3.

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, or the name of the custodian of such child or children, if there
be such custodian, and the place or places of residences of such child or
children, their parents or other custodian, is or are delinquent, dependent
or neglected, as defined in Section 1 of this Act, and that it is for the
interests 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 Equity Court for Baltimore
County, together with such other pertinent facts, if any, as the petitioner
may think proper to state. The Clerk of the Circuit Court for Baltimore
County shall file and preserve 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, guar-
dian 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 Equity Docket of his office.

1914, ch. 171.

Sec. 4. The said clerk shall, immediately upon the filing of the peti-
tion and making the proper docket entries as provided in the preceding
section, call the attention to the court to the same, and it shall be the
duty of the court, or in the event of the designation of one of the judges
of said court to investigate and pass on such cases, it shall be the duty
of such judge to make an order requiring the sheriff of Baltimore County,
or some constable of Baltimore County, or some constable of the county,
or the probation officer hereinafter named, to serve a summons upon all
parties named in said proceedings as defendants, 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 or 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) or confine-
ment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days.

1914, ch. 171.

Sec. 5. The Circuit Court for Baltimore 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