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.

When

Sec. 7. (Dependent and Neglected Children.) 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 an order committing the Ichild 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 out "fourteen (14)” in line 2 and inserting the word "sixteen (16).”

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

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 amendment 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 child 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 assent 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 suitable 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 the 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 Offenders. 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 com