EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1425

Clerk to provide a suitable book or docket, to be styled the
"Juvenile Docket, " which shall be carefully kept in his office
and in which shall be entered all such cases and the proceed-
ings therein briefly as in the Equity Docket of his office.

163. The said Clerk shall immediately upon the filing of
the petition and making the proper docket entries as provided
in the preceding Section, call the attention of the Court to the
same, and it shall be the duty of the Court, or in the event of
the designation of one of the Judges of said Court to investi-
gate and pass on such cases, it shall be the duty of such Judge
to make an order requiring the Sheriff of Harford County,
or some constable of the County, or the probation officer here-
inafter named, to serve summons upon all parties named in
said proceedings as defendants, to be and appear before such
Court at the hour and upon the day therein named, and the
Court, or such designated Judge thereof, may, in its or his dis-
cretion, adopt all necessary means to have the body of the
child named in the proceedings brought before the Judge of
Court at any designated time. It shall be the duty of the
Clerk to issue summons for any and all witnesses required by
any petitioner to appear at the hearing of his or her petition.
And any person failing to obey such summons, shall, in the
absence of sufficient excuse, be subject to a fine not exceeding
fifty dollars ($50. 00) or confinement in the County Jail not
exceeding thirty days.

164. The Circuit Court for Harford County or such Judge
as may be designated by said Court to hear and determine the
cases provided for in this Act, may select some one of the
Deputy Clerks (other than a recording clerk) employed in the
office of the Clerk of said Court to act as Clerk of the Court
in the exercise of the powers conferred upon said Court by
this Act, which clerk so selected shall have charge of the docket
hereinbefore provided for, and shall be present whenever the
Court or Judge may sit for hearing cases under the provisions
of this Act, and make all proper entries in said docket. That
said Court or Judge shall have the power to direct the Clerk
to have printed such forms of petitions, orders and papers as
the Court may deem requisite for the proper and convenient
discharge of its duties under this Act; the cost of such print-
ing to be paid for by the County Commissioners of Harford
County, and to be charged to the item of Court Expenses.

165. The Circuit Court for Harford County, or the Judge
designated by the Court for the purpose of hearing cases under