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State for the care and protection of children, may file with
the clerk to said Magistrate for Juvenile Cases a petition in
writing and under oath, setting forth that a certain child or
children, naming the same, if the name or names be known,
and also naming the parent or parents of such child, if there
be parent or parents known to the petitioner, or the name of
the custodian of such child or children, if there be such cus-
todian known to the petitioner, and the place or places of resi-
dence of such child or children, their parents or other cus-
todian, where known to the petitioner, is or are delinquent, de-
pendent or neglected, as defined in Section 272B of this Act,
and that it is for the interest of such child or children, and
the State of Maryland, that it or they be taken from its or their
parent or parents, guardian or custodian, and placed under the
jurisdiction of the said Magistrate for Juvenile Cases, to-
gether with such other pertinent facts, if any, as the petitioner
may think proper to state. The clerk to said Magistrate for
Juvenile Cases shall file and preserve such petition and all
papers relating to such petition, and docket such case, wherein
the petitioner shall be named as plaintiff, and the child or
children, its or their parent or parents, guardian or custodian,
when named, shall be made defendants in such case. The said
clerk shall immediately upon the filing of the petition and
making the proper docket entries, call the same to the attention
of the said Magistrate for Juvenile Cases, and it shall be the
duty of the said Magistrate to pass an order requiring the
Sheriff of said county, or a policeman of the City of Hagers-
town, or the probation officer hereinafter provided for, to
serve a summons upon all parties named in said proceedings
as defendants, to be and appear before said Magistrate for
Juvenile Cases, at the hour and upon the day therein named.
It shall be the duty of said Magistrate for Juvenile Cases or
his clerk, to issue summons for any and all witnesses required
by any petitioner to appear at the hearing of his, her or its
petition.

272D. The County Commissioners of Washington County
may appoint one or more probation officers, who may be either
male or female, who shall be paid in monthly installments by
the County Commissioners of said county a salary to be fixed
by said Magistrate for Juvenile Cases and said County Com-
missioners. It shall be the duty of such officer or officers to
inform himself or themselves when any child is to be brought
before said Magistrate for Juvenile Cases, to make investiga-

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