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ART. XXVI] DEPENDENT AND DELINQUENT CHILDREN. 185
Causes in the exercise of the powers conferred upon said Court by this
sub-title, which clerk so selected shall have charge of the docket herein-
before provided for, shall be present whenever said Court may sit for
hearing cases under the provisions of this sub-title, and make all proper
entries in said docket. That said Court shall have the power to direct
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for said County to have printed such
forms or petitions, orders and papers as the Court may deem requisite
for the proper and convenient discharge of its duties under this sub-
title, the cost of such printing to be paid by the County Commissioners
of said County, and to be charged to the item of Court Expenses.
1916, ch. 326, sec. 6.
52. The Circuit Court for any of the several Counties, sitting in
Juvenile Causes, shall appoint one or more probation officers, who may
be either male or female who shall be paid in monthly installments by
the County Commissioners of said County a salary to be fixed by said
Court. It shall be the duty of such officer or officers to inform himself
or themselves when any child is to be brought into said Court, and to
make investigations of all such cases, to be present in Court to repre-
sent the interest of the child when the case is heard, and to furnish said
Court such information and assistance as said Court may require, and
to take charge of such child before or after the trial as said Court may
direct, and whenever such probation officer shall have knowledge of any
dependent, neglected, or delinquent child, it shall be the duty of such
officer to bring the same to the attention of said Court by petition, as
hereinbefore provided. In addition to the salary above provided for
such probation officer, he or she, shall be allowed for all actual and .rea-
sonable travelling expenses when in the discharge of duties imposed by
order of said Court, to be paid by the County Commissioners upon the
approval and order of said Court. Two or more adjacent counties may,
with the consent of the judges of the Judicial Circuit or Circuits where-
in they are situate, arrange for the appointment of a joint probation
officer to serve the counties so arranging; and the County Commis-
sioners of each of such Counties shall have power to make all necessary
levies and appropriations to pay the salary and expenses of such proba-
tion officer in such proportion as shall be mutually agreed by said
County Commissioners.
1916, ch. 326, sec. 7.
53. In the event that any minor, charged by petition filed under this
sub-title with a criminal offense for which a jury trial may be legally
demandable, may pray a jury trial when brought before the Circuit
Court for any County, sitting in Juvenile Causes, then said Court shall
direct said charge against said minor to be tried in like manner as other
criminal cases are now or may hereafter be tried; and the said Court
shall have and exercise in such case all its ordinary powers over the
person of said minor pending information, indictment or trial.
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