1754 PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. 77

eight and sixteen years of age found away from his home and
who is a truant from school, or who fails to attend school in
accordance with the provisions of this sub-title. He shall
forthwith deliver a child so arrested either to the custody of a
person in parental relation to the child or of the teacher from
whose school such child is then a truant; but if the child be a
habitual or incorrigible truant he shall bring him before a
justice of the peace for commitment by him to a "parental
school," as provided for in the next section, or to some other
institution to which disorderly children may be committed.
The attendance officer shall promptly report every such arrest
and the disposition made by him of the child so arrested to
the school commissioners of the said city or county, respect-
ively, or to such person or persons as they may direct.

1902, ch. 269, sec 129.

166. The mayor and city council of Baltimore and the
county commissioners of Allegany county may establish schools
to be known as parental schools for children between eight
and sixteen years of age who are habitually truants from school
or from instruction. They may also provide for the confine-
ment, maintenance and instruction of such children in such
schools for such period and under such rules and regulations
as they may prescribe, not exceeding the remainder of the
school year. Justices of the peace may commit such children
to such parental schools, but no person convicted of any crime
or of any offense other than truancy shall be committed thereto.

Ibid. sec. 130.

157. It shall be the duty of the police commissioners of
Baltimore city, at the same time that the census of legal voters
in said city is taken under their direction, as provided by sec-
tion 18 of article 33 of the code of public general laws, also
to cause to be made by the members of the force under their
control, annually, a separate record of the full name, age, color
and sex of every child between six and sixteen years of age in
each precinct of the said city, and the place where and the
year and month when such children last attended school,
together with the name and address of the parents, guardians
or persons in parental relation, and of employers of such
children, which record shall be furnished by said police com-
missioners to the board of school commissioners of Baltimore
city. Whosoever has under his control a child between said
ages and withholds information in his possession from any