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more County, sitting as a Juvenile Court," and shall have
exclusive jurisdiction, where jurisdiction is given by law to any
Justice of the Peace in and for Baltimore County, in all cases
of trial or commitment to any juvenile institution of any minor
specified in this act.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That no Justice of the Peace
shall commit for any reason a child under fourteen years of
age to a jail or police station to be confined with other pris-
oners. If any such child shall be unable to give bail for his or
her appearance before the said Circuit Court for Baltimore
County, he or she shall be committed to the care of a proba-
tion officer of said Court or to the custody of some society or
juvenile institution organized for the care of children.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That any person who shall contribute
to or encourage delinquency or dependency of any minor as here-
inbefore defined; or any person charged by law with the care and
support of any minor who shall wilfully neglect to perform
his or her duty to such child, or any person who shall advise
or encourage any child to leave the home, school or institution
to which such child shall have been committed by the Court
or Judge, and any person who shall interfere in any way with
the execution of any order made or passed by the Court or
Judge in the exercise of the powers conferred by this Act, may
be cited before such Court or Judge, and upon conviction
of the offense charged against him by such Court or Judge,
shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars, or may be committed
to the County Jail for a term not exceeding sixty days, but if
the person so charged with the offense shall pray a jury trial,
such case shall be referred to the Circuit Court, and there be
tried before a Jury as other criminal cases are tried. Pro-
vided, however, that nothing contained herein shall be con-
strued to deprive the Judge or Court sitting as a Juvenile
Court of the powers now conferred upon the Judge or Court to
punish for contempt.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That all fines imposed by the
Court or Judge under this Act, shall be collected as fines are
now collected by the Circuit Court for Baltimore County in
the exercise of its criminal jurisdiction, and when so col-
lected shall be paid over to the County Commissioners of Bal-
timore County. Whenever the said Court may determine that
a parent or custodian of any child coming within the provisions
of this Act, is able to pay the cost of the proceeding against such
child, and it is proper that he should pay the said costs, or to