HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1693

they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ments, and that seven new sections be and they are hereby
added to said Article, said new section to be known as
Sections 370A, 370B, 373A, 374A, 374AA, 374AAA and
374B, to follow immediately after Sections 370, 373 and
374, respectively, and all to read as follows:

370. In addition to the Justices of the Peace herein-
before mentioned, there shall be appointed by the Governor,
by and with the consent of the Senate, and if the Senate
shall not be in session, by the Governor, for Allegany
County at large an additional Justice of the Peace to be
known as the Magistrate for Juvenile Causes, who shall re-
ceive a salary of two thousand seven hundred and sixty dol-
lars ($2, 760), per year, payable monthly, two-thirds by the
County Commissioners for Allegany County and the other
one-third by the Mayor and City Council of Cumber-
land, Maryland, and the jurisdiction and powers of such
Justice shall be as follows: (1) He shall possess the gen-
eral powers of a Justice of the Peace and also of the Justice
of the Peace who is selected to sit at the Police Court in
the City of Cumberland as the same are now or may here-
after be defined; (2) He shall have full power and juris-
diction over and with respect to delinquent, neglected,
dependent and feeble-minded children under the age of
eighteen years, and of any person causing, encouraging or
contributing towards delinquency, neglect or dependency
of any such child; he shall have exclusive jurisdiction in
all cases of trial or commitment for trials or commitment
to any juvenile institution of any minor under eighteen
years of age where jurisdiction is given to any Justice of
the Peace; (3) He shall sit each weekday for the discharge
of his duties from nine o'clock A. M. to twelve o'clock Noon
and from one o'clock P. M. to three-thirty o'clock P. M.,
with the exception of Saturday when he shall sit from nine
o'clock A. M. to twelve o'clock Noon; and at such proper
places as may be provided by the Board of County Com-
missioners for Allegany County; (4) He shall have power
at any stage of the proceedings in the case of a child who
is charged with the commission of any crime or whose
care, commitment or custody is involved before said Mag-
istrate for Juvenile Causes, to suspend sentence, to suspend
final judgment or order further proceedings for such
period of time or for an indefinite period of time as may be
deemed necessary, and place such child on probation in the
care of and under the supervision and direction of the Pro-
bation Officer hereinafter provided for, and at the time of
suspension of certain or further proceedings or subsequent
thereto, the said Magistrate for Juvenile Causes may im-