1852 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 1044

guardian, or other person or persons having custody of a child,
naming the child and of any person or persons responsible for
or contributing to the delinquency, dependency or neglect of
said child, and it shall be sufficient that the affidavit to the
facts set forth in the petition is on information and belief.
Upon filing of the petitions a summons shall issue requiring
all persons named in the petition to appear at a place and
time stated in the summons. Such summons may be served by
the Sheriff or Constable, or police officer or other officer auth-
orized by law to serve writs or process. If the person sum-
moned shall fail to appear, the Court may issue an attachment
for such person's personal attendance in court at the time
stated therein. On request of the Court, the State's Attorney
shall prepare and prosecute any case within the purview of
this section.

547-O. Any interested party aggrieved by any order or de-
cree of the Magistrate, may, within thirty days after the entry
of such order or decree, appeal therefrom to the Circuit Court
of Montgomery County, where the case shall be tried de novo
as in other appeals from Trial Magistrates findings and de-
crees.

The pendency of any such appeal or application therefor with
respect to a child shall not suspend the order of the Magistrate
regarding such child, nor shall it discharge such child from the
custody of the County Welfare Board or of the person, institu-
tion or agency to whose care such child shall have been com-
mitted by that Board, or by the Magistrate.

547P. The Court may cause any child coming under its
jurisdiction to be examined by a physician, psychiatrist or psy-
chologist appointed by the court.

547Q. In the event of the temporary absence or inability
of the Magistrate for Juvenile Causes, the substitute trial
magistrate appointed by the Governor for Montgomery County,
for the trial of causes before the other trial magistrates of
Montgomery County, shall serve in his place and stead during
the period of his absence or inability, and shall have the same
power and authority and be subject to the same duties and
responsibilities as the said trial magistrate for juvenile causes.
He shall receive from the County Commissioners the same pro
rata amount for his compensation and the same expenses as
would have been received by the trial magistrate for juvenile
causes.

547R The County Commissioners of Montgomery County
shall make all appropriations necessary to provide for the pay-