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ART. XXVl] DEPENDENT AND DELINQUENT CHILDREN. 137
authority to require such parent or parents or other person so charged,
to pay in full or in part the cost of maintaining such child, and said
Court shall have full power and authority to assess the costs of such
proceeding against such parent or parents or other person so charged.
Costs in such cases shall be taxed in the customary amount, but in no
case shall any appearance fee be allowed, and fees to witnesses shall be
allowed only in the discretion of said Court.
In no case shall any person filing a petition under this sub-title be
held liable for any costs of the case unless the Court shall be satisfied
that the case was instituted without reasonable grounds or through
prejudice, upon which finding all costs of the proceeding may be
assessed against the petitioner in discretion of said Court.
1916, ch. 326, sec. 11.
57. Except as hereinbefore provided, all costs incurred in the prose-
cution of cases under this sub-title shall be paid by the County Commis-
sioners of the County wherein said cases shall be prosecuted, and it shall
be the duty of the County Commissioners of each of the several Counties
to make all levies and appropriations necessary to provide for the pay-
ment of the salaries, fees, expenses and costs made by this sub-title
payable by the County Commissioners of such County.
1916, ch. 326, sec. 12.
58. No Justice of the Peace in and for any of the several Counties
shall commit for any reason a child under fourteen years of age to a
jail or police station to be confined with other prisoners. If any such
child shall be unable to give bail for his or her appearance as and where
demanded, he or she shall be committed to the care of a probation officer
of the Circuit Court for said County, or to the custody of some society
or juvenile institution organized for the care of children.
1916, ch. 326, sec. 13.
59. Any person who shall willfully contribute to or encourage delin-
quency or dependency of any minor as hereinbefore defined; or any
person charged, by law with the care and support of any minor who
shall willfully neglect to care for or support such child, or any person
who shall advise or encourage any child to leave the home, school, or
institution to which such child shall have been committed by any
Court of competent jurisdiction, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
shall be fined or imprisoned or both in the discretion of the Court try-
ing such offense or the justice in the cases where the justice has juris-
diction.
1916, ch. 326, sec. 14.
60. Nothing in this sub-title shall be construed to affect, modify or
abridge the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in and for any County
for which no Judge has been assigned for the hearing, trial and deter-
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