1202 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

quired by him of the Sheriff. The Mayor and City Council of
Cumberland shall designate one or more members of the police
force to attend such Magistrate and execute his process, orders
and direction within the corporate limits of the City of Cum-
berland.

SEC. 184 D. Any minor shall be considered dependent or de-
linquent who violates State, County or Municipal law, or whose
associations, habits or surroundings are such as to expose the
minor to physical injury or to immorality or vice, or who is
destitute, abandoned or homeless, or whose home, by reason of
cruelty or vice on the part of the parents, guardian or other
custodian of such minor is an unfit place for such minor, or
whose environment is such as to warrant the State in the in-
terest of the child and of society in assuming or directing
the guardianship of such minor. When a minor under the
age of sixteen years comes under the cognizance of said Mag-
istrate such minor shall continue for necessary purposes of dis-
cipline and protection a ward of Court until said minor attains
the age of twenty-one years.

SEC. 184 E. Any person causing, encouraging or contribu-
ting towards the delinquency or dependency of any minor as
herein defined, and any person charged by law with the care,
support or maintenance of any such minor and who wilfully
fails, neglects or refuses to care for, support or maintain said
minor, or who abandons such minor, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and on conviction or pleading guilty thereof,
may be fined not less than ten ($10) dollars nor more than
five hundred ($500) dollars or imprisoned in the House of
Correction not exceeding two years, or both fined and. im-
prisoned ; and each day of such failure, neglect or refusal shall
constitute a separate offense, and the accused may demand a
jury trial and be committed or bailed pending the same. Any
person pleading guilty, or tried, convicted and sentenced under
this Act for the abandonment of, or for the neglect of, or
failure to maintain or support a minor, may be sentenced as
hereinbefore stated, or may, in lieu thereof, be paroled on
such terms as said Magistrate, (or as the Circuit Court for
said County, if the case be before said Court) may deem proper,
the performance of said terms to be secured by the detention
of the offender or by recognizance entered into by or on his
or her behalf, as said Magistrate of said Court may adjudge.

SEC. 184 F. In the case of the absence, illness, disability or
disqualification, of the Juvenile Magistrate, it shall be the duty