HABEAS CORPUS 1771

ties, or any of them, to dismiss the case or settle it; a minor, in such pro-
ceeding may be removed from the custody of his parent, appointed guar-
dian, or other legal custodian; he may be committed to the care of any
person; body corporate or institution, upon such terms and for such period
as the court or judge may deem beneficial; if it be made to appear that
such course is demanded by the temporal or moral welfare of the minor,
it shall be the duty of the court or judge to commit him to the care or
custody of any charitable, reformatory or other institution incorporated
under the laws of this State subject to the discipline and regulations of
such institution, and to the further order and direction of the court or
judge; and any court or judge disposing of the custody of a minor upon
habeas corpus may assume and retain jurisdiction over such minor in as
ample a manner as a court of chancery, or judge of a court of chancery
upon bill or petition, and may pass such other and further orders in rela-
tion to his care and custody as may be deemed just and beneficial.

Order, in habeas corpus proceeding by mother involving custody of child, which per-
mitted child to remain with father, held proper. Tull v. Tull/ 172 Md. 215.

Cited but not construed in Backus v. Reynolds, 159 Md. 604.

This section referred to in construing art. 16, sec. 85. Kartman v. Kartman, 163
Md. 21.

Uniform Act for the Extradition of Persons of Unsound Mind.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 22. 1912, sec. 21. 1918, ch. 150, sec. 21.

22. (Name of the sub-title.) This sub-title may be cited as the Uni-
form Act for the Extradition of Persons of Unsound Mind.
As to insanity as a defense in criminal cases, see art. 59, sec. 6, et seq.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 23. 1912, sec. 22. 1918, ch. 150, sec. 22.

23. (Definition of Terms.) The terms "flight" and "fled" as used
in this sub-title, shall be construed to mean any voluntary or involuntary
departure from the jurisdiction of the court where the proceedings herein-
after mentioned may have been instituted and are still pending, with the
effect of avoiding, impeding or delaying the action of the court in which
such proceedings may have been instituted or be pending, or any such
departure from the State where the person demanded then was, if he then
was under detention by law as a person of unsound mind and subject to
detention. The word "state" wherever used in this sub-title shall include
states, territories, districts and insular and other possessions of the United
States. As applied to a request to return any person within the purview
of this sub-title to or from the District of Columbia, the words "executive
authority," "Governor" and "Chief Magistrate" respectively shall in-
clude a justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and
other authority.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 24. 1912, sec. 23. 1918, ch. 150, sec. 23.

24. (Persons Subject to the Sub-title.) A person alleged to be of un-
sound mind found in this State, who has fled from another State, in which
at the time of his flight:

(a) He was under detention by law in a hospital, asylum or other in-
stitution for the insane as a person of unsound mind; or

(b) He had been theretofore determined by legal proceedings to be
of unsound mind, the finding being unreversed and in full force and effect,
and the control of his person having been acquired by a court of compe-
tent jurisdiction of the State from which he fled; or