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under his control and who fails to
comply with any of the above pro-
visions, shall be deemed guilty of
~mfsdemeanor, and be fined not
exceeding five dollars for each
offe3 Use.
Any person who induces or
atts apis to induce any child to alb
sentfhimself unlawfully from school,
or employs or harbors while school
is III session any child, absent I'M
lawfully from school, shall be deem
ed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
be fined not more than fifty dol
lars.
a. The Boards of School Com
missioners of the several counties
may appoint and may remove, at
pleasure, for their respective coun-
tles,- or any part til ~eof, such num-
Der of attendance ficers, male or
female, as they + deem neces-
sary or desirable, = fix their COM
fund of the respective counties.
5. 1t shall be the duty of each
attendance officer, and said officer
shall have full power within the
city or county for which he or
she may be appointed, to arrest,
without warrant, any child of the
age indicated above, found away
from home, and who is a truant
from school, or who fails to attend
schpol. In accordance with the pro-
visions of this subtitle, the said
officer shall forthwith deliver
child so arrested either to the
custody of a person in parental re-
lation to the child or to the teach
| err from whose school such a child
| is then a truant, but if the child
be an habitual or incorrigible tru-
| ant, said officer shall bring him
before a Justice of. the Peace hav-
| ing jurisdiction, who may commit
him to a parental school, as pro-
vided for in the next section, or to
some other suitable institution for
children in the State of Maryland,
where 10 persons convicted of any
crime or offense, other than tru-
ancy, shall or may be confined pro-
vided, however, that such Justice
may, in his discretion, parole such
child instead of committing him as
aforesaid. The attendance officer
shall promptly report every such
arrest to the School Commissioners
of the said city or county, respec-
lively, or to such person or per-
sons as they may direct.
6. The several Boards of
School Commissioners for the
counties may establish schools to
| be known as parental schools for
| children who are habitual truants
from schools or from instruction or
in one or more counties of the
| State two or more Boards of
School Commissioners of adjoining
counties may, in their discretion,
| jointly establish a parental school
or schools for the joint use of the
said counties, and said school or
schools may be established lin any
one of the said counties so jointly
acting. The several Boards of
School Commissioners for the coun-
| ties may also provide for the con-
| finement, maintenance and instruc-
ton of such habitually truant chill
| dren in the schools respectively es-
tablished by them aforesaid; for
such period and under such rules
and regulations as they may have
respectively prescribed, and Justi-
ces of the Peace having jurisdiction
may commit such habitually truant
Ichildren to any of the parental
schools for the county in which
such children may reside, but no
person convicted of any other Of
tense than truancy, shall be COM
mitted to any such schools.
Z. 1t shall be the duty of the
ITluClpdl VI Hedu teacher OI eN-
cry public or private school in
this State to report Immediately to
| the School Commissioners of the
Icounty where such school is located,
for to an attendance officer or 9TH
er officials designated by such
Commissioners, the names of all
4 ohi1lroy nrro11aI in, har
school who have been absent or
irregular in attendance three days,
or their equivalent, without lawful
excuse within period of eight con-
/ secutive weeks.
s. Any officer may visit all es-
Establishments where minors are en-
/ nlouad in thoir