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186 COURTS. [ART. XXVI
1916, ch. 326, sec. S.
54. If upon hearing and investigation, the Circuit Court of any of
the several Counties, sitting in Juvenile Causes, shall find any male
child under twenty years of age, or any female child under the age of
eighteen, to be dependent, neglected or delinquent within the meaning
of this sub-title said Court may allow such child to remain at its home,
subject to the supervision of the probation officer, and may require such
child to report to said Court or probation officer at such times as said
Court shall order. Or if said Court shall then or thereafter find the
parent, parents, guardian or custodian of such child an unfit or improper
person or persons, or unable or unwilling to care for, protect, train,
educate or discipline such child, and shall further find it to be to the
interest of such child or the people of said County that such child be
taken from the custody of such parent, parents, guardian or custodian,
said Court may pass an order committing the child to the custody of
some agency, or to some suitable institution, State or otherwise organ-
ized for the care of children, until it becomes twenty-one years of age;
and said agency or institution may place such child in the home of some
suitable family. Said Court, however, shall retain the right to remove
such child from such family, home, agency, or institution, for such
reasons as the Court may determine sufficient.
1916, ch. 326, sec. 9.
§5. Whenever any such child is so committed to an agency or insti-
tution, and the said child is placed, by such agency or institution, in a
family home, as hereinbefore authorized, it shall be the duty of such
agency or 'institution to cause one of its responsible representatives to
visit such child at least once in every three months, unless otherwise
ordered by said Court, and to report to said Court the condition and
progress of such child; and such guardian shall exercise proper care
for the schooling and training of such child, and make report to said
Court as often as directed by the order of appointment: and if any
child so placed in a home or institution, or in any custody whatsoever.
shall leave or quit the same before attaining adult age, and without
leave of said Court, he or she shall be apprehended and brought before
said Court, and said Court shall award the custody of said child as said
Court shall determine to be best for the interest of said child and the
community. All orders of the Court shall be noted fully in the docket
provided for by this sub-title, and the originals carefully preserved in
the Clerk's Office, and a duplicate copy made and presented to the
custodian so appointed.
1916, ch. 326, sec. 10.
66. In any proceeding begun by petition under this sub-title, where-
in the parent or parents or other person charged by law with the sup-
port of any dependent, neglected or delinquent child shall be made
defendant or defendants, the said Court shall have full power and
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