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ART. XXVI] DEPENDENT AND DELINQUENT CHILDREN. 183
unaccompanied by a parent or guardian, or is guilty of indecent, im-
moral or lascivious conduct.
See section 62.
1916, ch. 326, sec. 2,
48. The judges of each of the several Judicial Circuits of the State,
now or hereafter created, shall have power to designate if all of the
judges in said circuit, in their discretion, shall deem it necessary or
expedient for each of the Circuit Courts of their said Judicial Circuit,
a judge of said Judicial Circuit to hear, try and determine the cases
of dependent, neglected or delinquent children found within the County
wherein said Circuit Court has jurisdiction, or whose dependency, neg-
lect or delinquency shall have occurred within said County; and said
Circuit Judge when designated shall be known as the Circuit Court for
said County, sitting in Juvenile causes, and when so designated shall
have jurisdiction exclusive of any and all Justices of the Peace in and
for said County in all cases of trial or commitment to any juvenile
institution of any such dependent, neglected or delinquent child; and
the said Circuit Court for said County sitting in Juvenile causes shall
have plenary jurisdiction to hear, try and determine all cases of any
such dependent, neglected or delinquent children and to provide for the
custody, control and maintenance of such child until it shall attain the
age of 21, and shall have all other jurisdiction by this sub-title herein-
after expressly conferred.
And the said Circuit Court for said County sitting in Juvenile
Causes shall have and exercise to the fullest extent all the powers of
equity to make and enforce by injunction, attachment for contempt, or
otherwise, and all orders or decrees that may be necessary or appro-
priate in the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by this sub-title, and
shall have and exercise all the powers now or hereafter conferred upon
the Circuit Court for said County in the hearing, trial and determina-
tion of causes wherein a minor may be brought before said Court by
habeas corpus, and shall have and exercise all other powers by this sub-
title hereinafter expressly conferred.
And the hearing, trial and determination of all cases of dependent,
neglected or delinquent children by the Circuit Court for said County
sitting in Juvenile Causes shall be had without regard to technicalities
of procedure or the rules of evidence, and without regard to any tech-
nical claim of any party to said cause, and the Circuit Court for said
County sitting in Juvenile Causes may control and conduct the hearing
of such cases, in the same manner as are now controlled and conducted
the hearing of cases of minors brought before said Circuit Court by
habeas corpus.
1916, ch. 326, sec. 3.
49. Whenever the Judges of any Judicial Circuit shall designate
one of their number to try, hear and determine the cases of such chil-
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