1162 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 573

CHAPTER 572.

AN ACT to authorize the State Road Commission of Mary-
land to build an improved State Road from the new
Southeast boundary of the City of Baltimore, at the end
of Pennington Avenue, extended; thence southwesterly
to Foreman's Corner; thence new road to the present
bridge across Stony Creek, to a point where the concrete
road running from Camp Meade to Severn, in the Fourth
Election District of Anne Arundel County ends.
(Vetoed.)

CHAPTER 573.

AN ACT to amend Article 16, title "Chancery," sub-title
"Infants," as the same appears in Volume 1 of Bagby's
Annotated Code of the Laws of Maryland, by adding a
new section thereto to be known as 77-A, to follow im-
mediately after Section 77 in said Code,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and the same is to be added to
Volume I of. Bagby's Annotated Code of the Laws of Mary-
land, the same to be known as Section 77-A, and to follow
immediately after Section 77 in said Code.

77-A. The several equity courts of this State shall have
original jurisdiction in all cases relating to the custody or
guardianship of children and may on bill or petition filed by
the father or mother or relative or next of kin or next friend
of any child or children to direct who shall have the custody
or guardianship of such child or children, and who shall be
charged with his, her or their support and maintenance, and
may from time to time thereafter annul, vary or modify its
decree or order in relating to such child or children, provided
that nothing herein contained shall be construed to take away
or impair the jurisdiction of the several Juvenile Courts in
this State and of the Juvenile Court of Baltimore City in
cases relating to dependent or delinquent children, or be taken
or construed to repeal or modify the provisions of Section 20
of Article 42 of the Code of Public General Laws.

Approved April 9, 1920.