Sec. 2. Jurisdiction.) The circuit and county courts of the several counties in this State, shall have original jurisdiction in all cases coming within the terms of this act. Proceedings under this act shall conform as nearly as may be to the practice in chancery: PROVIDED, that in cases where a ciriminal offense is charged, the accused shall have the right to a trial by jury. When a case is being heard, all persons not officers of the court or witnesses, and those having a direct interest in the case being heard, shalı be excluded from the court room.

Amend Section 2 by striking out all of the Section after the word "act" where it first occurs in line 5 and inserting the following: "in all trials under this act any person interested therein may demand a jury of six or the judge of his own motion may order a jury of the same number to try the case."

Amendment proposed by Timothy D. Hur

ley.

Sec. 3. Juvenile Court.) In counties having over 500,000 population, the judges of the circuit court ghall, at such times as they shall determine, designate one or more of their number, whose duty it shall be to hear all cases coming under this act. A special court room to be designated as the juvenile court room, shall be provided for the hearing of such cases, and the findings of the court shall be entered in a book or books, to be kept for that purpose, and known as the "Juvenile Record," and the court may for convenience be called the "Juvenile Court."

Sec. 4. Petition to the Court.) Any reputable person being a resident in the county, having knowledge of a child in his county, who appears to be either neglected, dependent or delinquent, may file with the clerk of a court having jurisdiction in the matter, a petition in writing, setting forth the facts, verified by affidavit. It shall be sufficient that the affidavit is upon information and belief.

Sec. 5. Summons.) Upon the filing of the petition a summons shall issue requiring the person having custody or control of the child or with whom the child may be, to appear with the child at a place and time stated in the summons, which time shall be not less than 24

hours after service. The parents of the child if living and their residence if known or its legal guardian, if one there be, or if there is neither parent or guardian or if his or her residence is not known, then some relative if there be one and his residence is known, shall be notified of the proceedings and in any casé the judge may appoint some suitable person to act in behalf of the child. If the person summoned as herein provided shall fail without reasonable cause to appear and abide the order of the court or to bring the child he may be proceeded against as in case of contempt of court. In case the summons can not be served or the party served fails to obey the same and in any case when it shall be made to appear to the court that such summons will be ineffectual a warrant may issue on the order of the court, either against the parent or guardian or the person having custody of the child or with whom the child may be or against the child itself. On the rteurn of the summons or other process or as soon thereafter as may be the court shall proceed to hear and dispose of the case in a summary manner.

Amend Section 5 by adding thereto the following: "Pending the final disposition of any case, the child may be retained in the possession of the person having the charge of same, or may be kept in some suitable place provided by the city or county authorities."

Amendment proposed by Timothy D. Hur

ley.

Sec. 6. Probation Officers.) The court shall have authority to appoint or designate one or more discreet persons of good character to serve as probation officers, during the pleasure of the court; said probation officers to receive no compensation from the public treasury. In case a probation officer shall be appointed by any court, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court, if practicable, to notify the said probation officer in advance, when any child is to be brought before the said court; it shall be the duty of the said probation officer to make such investigation as may be required by the court; to be present in court in order to represent the interests of the child when the case is heard; to furnish to the court such information and assistance as the judge may require; and to take such charge of any child before and after trial as may be directed by the court.

Sec. 7. Dependent and Neglected Children.) When any child under the age of fourteen (14) years shall be found to be dependent or neglected within the meaning of this act, the court may make

over paroled inmates during the continuance of their parole; such agents shall hold office subject to the pleasure of an order committing the child to the care of some suitable State institution or to the care of some reputable citizen of good moral character, or to the care of some training school or an industrial school, as provided by law, or to the care of some association willing to receive it, embracing in its objects the purpose of caring or obtaining homes for dependent or neglected children, which association shall have been accredited as hereinafter provided.

Amend Section 7 by striking our "fourteen (14)" in line 3 and inserting the word "sixteen (16)."

Amendment proposed by Hon. Orrin N. Carter, County Judge of Cook County, IIIInois.

Sec. 8. Children Not to be Kept in Poor Houses.) It shall be unlawful to retain any child of sound mind and body, between the ages of two (2) and fourteen (14) years, in any poor house, and it shall be the duty of the superintendent of any poor house, or any member of the county board, who shall have knowledge of the presence of any such child in any poor house, to make petition to the circuit or county court, in the manner provided in Section 5 of this act. And the court shall have like power as in other cases of dependent children. When any child dependent upon a county for support is committed by the court to the care of an association, to be placed in a family home, the court may award a reasonable compensation for such services, to be paid by the county, including necessary expenses, provided that the compensation so allowed shall not exceed the sum of fifty (50) dollars in the case of any one child. If it shall prove impracticable to place or keep such child in a family home on account of incorrigibility, or any mental or physical defect, the child may be returned to the county authorities. In such case the court may require the association to refund to the county treasury such portion of the money paid by the county for the care of such child as may in the opinion of the court be equitable.

Amend by striking out all of Section 8 and renumbering the Sections following and changing the references to any of said sections to correspond.

This amenmdent was proposed by Mr. John J. Lane, representative of the Chicago Inter Ocean, then assigned to duty on that paper at Springfield.

Sec. 9. Guardianship.) In any case where the court shall award a child to

the care of any association or individual in accordance with the provisions of this act, the child shall, unless otherwise ordered, become a ward, and be subject to the guardianship of the association or individual to whose care it is committed. Such association or individual shall have authority to place such chila in a family home, with or without indenture, and may be made party to any proceeding for the legal adoption of the child, and may by its or his attorney or agent appear in any court where such proceedings are pending and assent to such adoption. And such asent shall be sufficient to authorize the court to enter the proper order or decree of adoption.

Amend Section 9, by adding thereto, the following: “Such guardianship shall not include the guardianship of any estate of the child."

This amendment was proposed by Judge Hurd.

Sec. 10. Disposition of Delinquent Children.) In the case of a delinquent child, the court may continue the hearing from time to time and may commit the child to the care and guardianship of a probation officer duly appointed by the court, and may allow said child to remain in its own home, subject to the visitation of the probation officer; such child to report to the probation officer as often as may be required, and subject to be returned to the court for further proceedings, whenever such action may appear to be necessary; or the court may commit the child to the care and guardianship of the probation officer to be placed in a suitable family home, subject to the friendly supervision of such probation officer; or it may authorize the said probation officer to board out the said child in some suitable family home, in case provision is made by voluntary contribution or otherwise for the payment of the board of such child until a suitaable provision may be made for the child in a home without such payment. The county board of any county or the city council of any city may appropriate money for such purpose provided that the rate to be paid out of any public money shall not exceed $2.00 per week Or if the child is found guilty of any criminal offense and the judge is of the opinion that he best interest requires it, the court may commit the child to any institution within said county incorporated under the laws of this State for the care of delinquent children, or provided by a city for the care of such offenders, or may commit the child if a boy over the age of ten years to the State reformatory, or if a girl over the age of ten years to the State home for juvenile female of

fenders. A child committed to such an institution shall be subject to the control of the Board of Managers thereof, and said board shall have power to parole such child on such conditions as it may prescribe, and the court shall, on the recommendation of the board, have power to discharge such child from custody, whenever in the judgment of the court, his or her reformation shall be complete; or the court may commit the child to the care and custody of some association that will receive it, embracing in its objects the care of neglected and dependent children, and that has been duly accredited as hereinafter provided. The order of commitment may include such allowance to the said institution or association for the actual expense and care for said child as the judge may deem proper, not exceeding the sum of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per week, such expense to be paid from the county treasury: PROVIDED, that no such payment shall continue for more than twelve (12) months without a new order of the court; AND PROVIDED, such payment shall cease when the said child shall reach the age of fourteen (14) years, unless a special order shall be made for continued payment.

Amend Section 10, by striking out all after the words, "without such payment" in the 26th line of said section, down to and including the words, "$2.00 per week" in line 31, and inserting "or the court may commit the child if a boy to a training school for boys, or if a girl to an industrial school for girls."

Also striking out all of said section after the word "provided" in line 56.

These two amendments were proposed by Mr. John J. Lane of the Inter Ocean staff and Mr. Dudley of the Glenwood School and Mrs. M. R. M. Wallace of the Illinois Industrial School for Girls located at Evanston, Illinois.

Sec. 11. Transfer from Justices and Police Magistrates.) When, in any county where a court is held as provided in section three of this act, a child under the age of 16 years is arrested with or without warrant, such child may, instead of being taken before a justice of the peace or police magistrate, be taken directly before such court, or if the child is taken before a justice of the peace or police magistrate, it shall be the duty of such justice of the peace or police magistrate to transfer the care to such court, and the officer having the child in charge to take such child before that court, and in any such case, the court may proceed to hear and dispose of the case in the same manner as if the child

had been brought before the court upon petition as herein provided. In any case the court may proceed without notice, or it may cause such notice to be given, and investigation to be made as it may think for the interest of the child, and may adjourn the hearing for that purpose.

Amend Section 11, by striking out all of the last six lines of said section and inserting the following: "Shall require notice to be given and investigation to be made as in other cases under this act and may adjourn the hearing from time to time for the purpose.

This amendment was proposed by Timothy D. Hurley.

Sec. 12. Children Under Twelve Years Not to Be Committed to Jail.) No court or magistrate shall commit a child under twelve (12) years of age to a jail or police station, but if such child is unable to give bail, it may be committed to the care of the sheriff, police officer or probation officer, who shall keep such child in some place. When any child shall be sentenced to confinement in any institution to which adult convicts are sentenced, it shall be unlawful to confine such child in the same building with such adult convicts, or to confine such child in the same yard or inclosure with such adult convicts, or to bring such child into any yard or building in which such convicts may be present.

Amend Section 12, by striking out all of said section after the words 'in some" in line 9, down to and including the words "per day," in line 13 of said section, and insert in lieu thereof, "suitable place provided by the city or county outside of the inclosure of any jail or police station."

Amendment proposed by Mr. Lane, Mr. Dudley and Mrs. Wallace.

Sec. 13. Agents of Juvenile Reformatories.) It shall be the duty of the board of managers of the State Reformatory at Pontiac and the board of managers of the State Home for Juvenile Female Offenders at Geneva, and the board of managers of any other institution to which juvenile delinquents may be committed by the courts, to maintain an agent of such institution, whose duty it shall be to examine the homes of children paroled from such institution, for the purpose of ascertaining and reporting to said court whether they are suitable homes; to assist children paroled or discharged from such institution in finding suitable employment, and to maintain a friendly supervision

fenders. In no case shall a child be committed beyond his or her minority. A child committed to such institution shall be subject to the control of the board of managers thereof, and the said the board making the appointment, and shall receive such compensation as such board may determine out of any funds appropriated for such institution applicable thereto.

Amend Section 13 by striking out the words "board of manageers" where they first occur in line one (1) and insert the word "superintendent."

Amendment proposed by Judge Hurd.

Sec. 14. Supervision by State Commissioners of Public Charities.) All associations receiving children under this act shall be subject to the same visitation, inspection and supervision of the board of State commissioners of public charities as the public charitable institutions of this State. The judges of the courts hereinafter mentioned may require such information and statistics from associations desiring to have children committed to their care under the provisions of this act as said judges deem necessary, in order to enable them to exercise a wise discretion in dealing with children. Every such association shall file with the board of State commissioners of public charities an annual printed or written report, which shall include a statement of the number of children cared for during the year, the number received, the number placed in homes, the number died, the number returned to friends; also a financial statement showing the receipts and disThe bursements of the associations. statement of receipts shall indicate the amount received from other sources, The sources. specifying the several statement of disbursements shall show the amount expended for salaries and other expenses, specifying the same, the amount expended for lands, buildings and investments. The secretary of the board of public charities shall furnish to the judge of each of the county courts a list of associations filing such annual reports, and no child shall be committed to the care of any association which shall not have filed a report for the fiscal year last preceding with the State board of commissioners of public charitles.

Sec. 15. Incorporation of Associations.) No association whose objects may embrace the caring for dependent, neglected or delinquent children shall hereafter be incorporated unless the proposed articles of incorporation shall first

have been submitted to the examination of the board of State commissioners of public charities, and the Secretary of State shall not issue a certificate of incorporation unless there shall first be filed in his office the certificate of said board of State commissioners of public charities that said board has examined the said articles of incorporation and that, in its judgment, the incorporators are reputable and responsible persons, the proposed work is needed, and the incorporation of such association is desirable and for the public good; amendments proposed to the articles of incorporation or association having as an object the care and disposal of dependent, neglected or delinquent children shall be submitted in like manner to the board of State commissioners of public charities, and the Secretary of State shall not record such amendment or issue his certificate therefor unless there shall first be filed in his office the certificate of said board of State commissioners of public charities that they have examined the said amendment, that the association in question is, in their judgment, performing in good faith the work undertaken by it, and that the said amendment is, in their judgment, a proper one and for the public good.

Sec. 16. Surrender of Dependent Children-Adoption.) It shall be lawful for the parents, parent, guardian or other person having the right to dispose of a dependent or neglected child to enter into an agreement with any association or institution incorporated under any public or private law of this State for the purpose of aiding, caring for or placing in homes such children, and being approved as herein provided, for the surrender of such child to such association or institution, to be taken and cared for by such association or institution or put into a family home. Such agreement may contain any, and all proper stipulations to that end, and may authorize the association or institution, by its attorney or agent, to appear in any proceeding for the legal adoption of such child, and consent to its adoption, and the order of the court made upon such consent shall be binding upon the child and its parents or guardian or other person the same as if such parents or guardian or other person were personally in court and consenting thereto, whether made party to the proceeding or not.

NOTE. Continued in the August number, coples of which may be secured by sending ten cents to THE JUVENILE COURT RECORD.