EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1363

CHAPTER 674.

AN ACT fixing and defining the powers of the several Circuit
Courts for the Counties of this State, and of the Criminal
Court of Baltimore City, with reference to persons re-
sponsible for or directly promoting or contributing to the
conditions that render a child a minor without proper care
or guardianship, and providing how such powers shall be
executed, and conferring concurrent jurisdiction upon, the
Magistrate for Juvenile Cases in the City of Baltimore in
such cases.

SECTION 1. Any parent, guardian or person having the
custody, control or supervision of any child defined by the
statutes of this State as a minor without proper care or guar-
dianship, or any person who shall knowingly or wilfully en-
courage, aid, cause, abet, or connive at such state of absence
of proper care or guardianship of a minor, or who shall know-
ingly or wilfully do any act or acts to directly produce, pro-
mote or contribute to the conditions which render such child a
minor without proper care or guardianship, or who having
the custody, control or supervision of such child, shall wilfully
neglect to do that which will directly tend to prevent such a
condition, or to remove the conditions that render such a child
a minor without proper care or guardianship shall be proceeded
against as provided herein.

SEC. 2. Any reputable person being a resident of the State
of Maryland, having knowledge of a child in any County of
said State or the City of Baltimore, who appears to be a minor
without proper care or guardianship, and who is not an inmate
of a State institution, or any institution, incorporated under
the laws of the State of Maryland for the care and correction
of children, or of any reform school or industrial school for
juvenile offenders, and having knowledge of the person or per-
sons responsible for or contributing to the condition of said
child, may file with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the
County, or of the Criminal Court of Baltimore City, or with
the Magistrate for Juvenile Causes in Baltimore City, a petition
in writing, setting forth the facts verified by affidavit; or the
judge of the Circuit Court for the County in which the child
resides or of the Criminal Court of Baltimore City or the
Magistrate for Juvenile Causes for Baltimore City, should the
child reside in said City of Baltimore, on his personal knowl-
edge, or on information given him may direct such petition to