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and training for male offenders from sixteen (16) years to
twenty-five (25) years of age, both inclusive. The courts of
the State, instead of imposing sentences of fixed duration in
other institutions upon such offenders, may, in their discretion,
sentence them to said Reformatory for an indetermined period
of time, which shall not exceed the maximum term of imprison-
ment provided by statute for the offense of which said person
was convicted, and in the event no penalty is provided by
statute for said offense, then the court shall prescribe the
maximum term of imprisonment; provided, however, that noth-
ing herein contained shall apply to any case in which the
sentence is life imprisonment or to the service of time for non-
payment of a fine, and provided further, that in those cases in
which the Judge of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City,
who is assigned to exercise jurisdiction in juvenile causes,
shall waive jurisdiction and order a minor under the age of
sixteen, and the Judge of any Circuit Court in any County
exercising jurisdiction in juvenile causes, shall waive jurisdic-
tion and order a minor under the age of eighteen, to be held
for action under the regular procedure that would follow if
such act or acts had been committed by an adult, then and in
that event the Judge presiding in the Criminal Courts of Balti-
more City and the Judge of the Circuit Court of any County
may, upon assuming jurisdiction in such case, upon convic-
tion commit such minor to the Maryland State Reformatory
for Males under the terms of this [Act] section regardless of
age.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1, 1951.

Approved February 12, 1951.

CHAPTER 14
(House Bill 25)

AN ACT to repeal Sections 29, 30 and 31 of Article 88A of
the Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition and 1947
Supplement), title "State Department of Public Welfare",
sub-title "Pauper or Vagrant Children", said sections relat-
ing to the bringing of pauper or vagrant children into this
State.

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