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STATE OF MARYLAND.

CHAP 269

Attendance
officers
appointed.

127. The Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore city
and the several Boards of County School Commissioners shall
appoint, and may remove at pleasure, persons to be known as
''Attendance Officers." The number to be appointed for the
city of Baltimore shall not exceed twelve, and the number
for any county shall not exceed three. Their compensation
shall be fixed and paid by the County Commissioners of the
respective counties, or the Mayor and City Council of Balti-
more city, as the case may be.

Truant from
school to
be arrested.

128. It shall be the duty of each attendance officer, and he
shall have full power, within the city or county for which he
may be appointed, to arrest without warrant any child between
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, respec-
tively, or to such person or persons as they may direct.

Parental
schools to be
established.

129. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and the
several Boards of County Commissioners 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 offence other than truancy, shall be committed
thereto.

Separate
record to be
made out.

130. 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 17 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 eex of every child between six and sixteen years of
age in each precinct of the said city, and the place where, and