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fications for personnel, and appoint personnel needed to staff the
[Southern Maryland] Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's Center, all
in accordance with the provisions of Article 64A of this Code, title
"Merit System."

(b)  The advisory board for the Maryland Children's Center, estab-
lished by Section 39A of this article, shall be also the advisory board
for the [Southern Maryland] Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's Center
with the same duties, powers and. responsibilities for the latter
institution [was] as provided for the Maryland Children's Center.

(c)  The [Southern Maryland] Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's
Center, subject to the rules and regulations adopted and promul-
gated by the State Department of Public Welfare, shall accept from
police and court officers the temporary custody of children then
being held on a charge which is or could be adjudged as delinquency.
For the period during which children are in the custody of the
[Southern Maryland] Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's Center, it
shall provide for them a residential program of care and study.
Unless a formal petition covering the charge against the child has
been filed in the proper circuit court or juvenile court and detention
ordered thereunder, the [Southern Maryland] Thomas J. S. Waxter
Children's Center may not in any event, on any one charge or set
of charges, detain or hold a child in custody for longer than 24 hours
(excluding Sundays and holidays from the computation for this
restriction.) Once such a petition is filed, the [Southern Maryland]
Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's Center, if ordered and authorized
by the court, shall continue to detain and hold the child in custody
for a continued residential program of care and study; but the
[Southern Maryland] Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's Center may
not in any event, on any one charge or set of charges, detain or
hold a child in custody for a period of time greater than thirty
days (excluding from the computation for this restriction the twenty-
four-hour period prior to the filing of a petition in court and the
order of the court for continued detention and custody).

(d)  During the period that any child may be placed in the custody
of the [Southern Maryland] Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's Center
pursuant to the provisions of this section, the county (or Baltimore
City) where the child resided at the time of his admission to the
[Southern Maryland] Thomas J. S. Waxter Children's Center shall
be chargeable with the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars
($180.00) per annum for each child under care and study. It is
the duty of the State Department of Public Welfare, or its agent or
agents, to furnish the board of county commissioners or to the
comptroller of Baltimore City, a quarterly statement giving the
number and names of all such children from the particular political
subdivision and the total amount due therefor. The State Department
of Public Welfare shall also certify to the State Comptroller the
amount due from each of the several counties and from Baltimore
City, and it shall be the duty of the State Comptroller to collect
these respective sums from the counties and Baltimore City.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it is the legislative intent
in this Act only to change the name of the Southern Maryland Chil-
dren's Center and in no other way to affect the powers, duties,
functions, and operations of the Southern Maryland Children's