648 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Acts amendatory thereof, and to re-enact said Article 4 with
amendments under two subtitles, known as 'Charter' and
'Miscellaneous Local Laws.' " by adding three sections
thereto relating to female physicians to be appointed for the
examination of women and children brought before the
Juvenile Court or any of the Police Magistrates of Baltimore
City, under circumstances set forth in this Act, said sections
to be known, respectively, as 773A, 773B, 773C, and to come in
after Section 773 of said Chapter 123.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Chapter 123 of the Acts of the General Assembly
of 1898, entitled "An Act to repeal Article 4, subtitle 'City of
Baltimore,' of the Code of Public Local Laws of Maryland, and
the several Acts and parts of Acts amendatory thereof, and to
re-enact said Article 4 with amendments under two subtitles,
to be known as 'Charter' and 'Miscellaneous Local Laws,'" be
and the same is hereby amended by adding three sections
thereto, to be known, respectively, as 773A, 773B and 773C, and
to come in after Section 773 of said Chapter 123.

SEC. 773A. Be it enacted, That the Board of Police Commis-
sioners for the City of Baltimore shall appoint and commission
biannually two men and two women physicians of integrity
and capacity, residents of Baltimore City, and who shall have
practiced medicine therein for at least three years next pre-
ceding the date of their commissions, whose duties shall be to
attend the various station-houses in the City of Baltimore and
at the Juvenile Court in Baltimore City, from time to time,
when required by the Magistrates sitting at the said several
station-houses, or by the Magistrates sitting as the Magistrates
for juvenile causes in said city, and examine all women and
female children brought to the said several station-houses, or
to the Juvenile Court in Baltimore City, when, in the opinion
of the Police Magistrates sitting at the said several station-
houses or the Magistrate sitting as the Magistrate for juvenile
causes in said city, an examination requiring the exposure of
the person of such woman or female child or children may be
required.

SEC. 773B. Be it enacted, That the said Magistrates sitting
at the said several police stations and the said Magistrate
sitting as the Magistrate for juvenile causes in said city shall,
whenever any examination requiring the exposure of the per-
son of any woman or female child or children brought before
them is necessary for the proper hearing or disposition of the
case, notify one of the physicians provided for under Section
773A, herein, to attend and make the said examination.