shall be paid from funds appropriated to said board, but the amount of board, if any, paid for the care of such child and the expense for providing suitable clothing and personal necessities and for mental, medical, dental and optical examination and treatment shall be charged by the board of state charities to the county from which such child was committed or transferred as provided in section 1352-3. The treasurer of each county, upon the warrant of the county auditor, shall pay to the treasurer of state the amount so charged upon the presentatoin of a statement thereof. The sum so received by the treasurer of state shall be credited to the fund appropriated for the purpose of maintaining the child placing work of the board. (As amended February 9, 1920.)

SECTION 1352-5. Delinquent children may be received. Board and maintenance. The board of state charities may, when willing to do so, receive as its wards with all the powers given it by section 1352-3 of the General Code delinquent children committed to it by a juvenile court or from any institution to which such children may be committed by the juvenile court or assigned by the board of administration. Such children shall be placed by it in homes in accordance with the provisions of section 1352-3 of the General Code. Before making such commitment the court may make an order that the parent or parents of such child shall pay the board of state charities, periodically, reasonable sums for the maintenance of such child, which orders, upon the disobedience thereof, may be enforced by attachment as for contempt. If originally committed to such institution by the juvenile court, the court must first consent to the transfer of such child to the board of state charities. Said court may in such cases make an order that the parents or guardians pay for its maintenance in the same manner as if such child had been originally committed to said board.

Provided that if the board of state charities find it impracticable to so place such child, it shall at its discretion have the right to surrender such child to the court, institution or board of administration from which it was received. (As amended February 9, 1920.)

SECTION 1352-6. Definition of "institution." For the purpose of this chapter the words "institution" and "association" shall include any incorporated or unincorporated organization, society, association or agency, public or private, which may receive or care for children; any individual who, for hire, gain, or reward, receives or cares for children, unless he is related to them by blood or marriage; and also any individual not in the regular employ of a court, or of an institution or association certified in accordance with section 1352-1, who in any manner becomes a party to the placing of children in foster homes, unless he is related to such children by blood or marriage, or is the duly appointed guardian thereof. (Passed February 10, 1920.)

SECTION 1352-7. Use of money received for board. Whenever the board of state charities receives moneys for board from an individual liable therefor under sections 1352-5 and 1653 of the General Code the same shall be paid to the treasurer of state and credited to the fund appropriated for the purpose of maintaining the child placing work of the board. (As amended February 9, 1920.)

SECTION 1352-8. When board shall provide treatment for crippled children. In order to provide suitable medical and surgical treatment of crippled children whose parents or guardians fail or are financially unable to provide such treatment, the board of state charities is authorized and empowered to receive into its custody such children. Application for such care and treatment shall first be made to the juvenile court by a parent, guardian or some

interested person. If such court is of the opinion that such child is in need of such treatment, and finds that the parent or guardian fails to provide it, he may make an order to that end; or if the parent or guardian is financially unable to pay all or a part of the expense of such treatment, the court shall make a proper finding and decree. In either case the court shall at once forward a copy of the decree and a statement of facts to the board of state charities, and such board shall, when able to do so under this act, accept such child for care as hereinbefore provided. Upon receipt of notice from such board that such child can be given treatment in a suitable institution, the court shall then commit such child to such board and provide for its conveyance in charge of a suitable person to the place designated by such board for treatment. The expenses for conveyance shall be paid by the county or by the parent or guardian as the court may direct. Such commitment shall be only for the period necessary for the treatment of such child. (Passed April 14, 1919.)

SECTION 1352-9. Contract for treatment; compensation; clothing. The board of state charities shall by contract arrange for treatment of crippled children in any public or private hospital which in its judgment is equipped to give adequate medical, surgical and educational attention to such cases. Compensation for such service, including all surgical and other professional attention, shall be allowed by the board of state charities upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between said board and the hospital admitting such crippled children as herein provided and shall be paid from funds appropriated for such purpose upon vouchers approved by the secretary of said board. Necessary clothing shall be furnished by the board of state charities, but such board may require parents or guardians to pay the state for such expenses when in its judgment such action is just. Such board shall exercise close supervision over such crippled children while patients in such hospitals and may at any time terminate any contracts so made when in its judgment such action should be taken. Each hospital caring for crippled children under this act shall be visited at least once each calendar month by a representative of such board who shall prepare and present to the board a written report concerning the progress of each patient who is being treated in accordance with this act. (Passed April 14, 1919.)

SECTION 1352-10. When child may be discharged. Whenever it appears that a crippled child has been successfully treated, or that it can not be further benefited by such treatment, the board shall order its discharge and thereupon its guardianship and responsibility shall cease. After such a child has been a patient in a hospital in accordance with this act for more than one year the parent or guardian, with the approval of the juvenile court, may cause its release from the hospital and the supervision of the board of state charities. (Passed April 14, 1919.)

SECTION 1352-11. Termination of contracts. After the Ohio institution for the treatment and education of deformed and crippled children is established and ready for the treatment of such children the board of state charities may terminate all contracts made under this act and transfer such children under its care to such institution, unless such institution cannot care for all such children who are eligible for admission. (Passed April 14, 1919.)

SECTION 1353. Plans for public buildings must be submitted to the board. Before their adoption by the proper officials, plans for new jails, workhouses, children's homes, infirmaries, state institutions and municipal lock-ups or prisons and for important additions to or alterations in such existing institutions, shall be submitted to the board of state charities for its approval. (R. S. Sec. 656.)

SECTION 1354. Governor may order investigation. The governor, at any time, may order the board of state charities, or a committee of two members thereof to investigate the management of a benevolent or correctional institution of the state. In making such investigation the board, or its committee, shall have such authority as is conferred upon officers authorized to take depositions, to send for persons and papers, to administer oaths, and to punish as for contempt a person, who being duly summoned by it, refuses to appear or produce papers. A report of an investigation with the testimony taken therein, shall be made to the governor, and by him it may be submitted to the general assembly with such suggestions as he deems proper. (R. S. Sec. 656, as amended April 28, 1913.)

SECTION 1355. Expenses of investigation and witness fees. A person summoned to appear in the investigation, provided in the preceding section, other than officers and employes of the benevolent or correctional institution under examination, shall receive such fees and mileage as are allowed witnesses in the court of common pleas. The witness fees, mileage and expenses of an investigation shall be paid from the current expense fund of such institution upon an itemized account approved by the president and secretary of the board of state charities. (Codifying Commission.)

SECTION 1356. Conferences of board with other officials. The board of state charities may call an annual conference, of the officials specified in section 1357 and representatives of the various social agencies in the state, to be known as the Ohio welfare conference. The purpose of the conference shall be to facilitate discussion of the problems and methods of practical human improvement, to increase the efficiency of agencies and institutions devoted to this cause; to disseminate information and to consider such other subjects of general social importance as may be determined upon by the conference itself. For this purpose the conference shall organize by the election of officers, the appointment of the proper committees, and the adoption of rules and regulations. The board may also call other conferences at any time or place for the consideration of problems relating to any particular group of institutions and agencies. (As amended May 19, 1919.)

SECTION 1357. Expenses of attending conferences. The necessary expenses of such officers of the state, county and municipal boards, benevolent and correctional institutions, and officials responsible for the administration of public funds used for the relief and maintenance of the poor and members of boards of county visitors as are invited by the board of state charities to the conferences provided for in section 1356 shall be paid from any fund available for their respective boards and institutions, provided they first procure a certificate from the secretary of the board of state charities as evidence that they were invited to and were in attendance at the sessions of such conferences. (As amended May 19, 1919.)

SECTION 1358. Annual report. The annual report of the board of state charities shall include a list of the officers and agents employed, and the condition of the state institutions under its control. It may include in such reports statistics and information in regard to correctional and benevolent institutions of this or other states as it deems useful. (R. S. Sec. 658, as amended May 27, 1915.)

SECTION 1359. Appointment of special agent or investigator authorized; credentials. The board of state charities is hereby empowered to appoint and commission any competent agency or person, willing to do so without compensation, as a special agent, investigator or representative to perform a

designated duty for and in behalf of such board. Specific credentials shall be given by such board to each person so designated, and each credential shall state the name; agency with which connected, if any; purpose of appointment; date of expiration of appointment, and such other information as such board may deem proper. (Passed June 5, 1919.)

OHIO COMMISSION FOR THE BLIND

SECTION 1360. Ohio commission for the blind, appointment and term of members. There shall be a state board to be known as the Ohio commission for the blind, consisting of six members, one of whom shall be superintendent of the state school for the blind and five shall be appointed by the governor. Each year the governor shall appoint a member of the commission who shall hold office for a term of five years. (99 v. 362 § § 1, 2.)

SECTION 1361. Organization and compensation of appointees. The commission for the blind shall elect one of its members as president, who shall preside at its meetings and have power to call meetings when he deems it is advisable. The commission may appoint necessary officers and agents and fix their compensation within the limits of the annual appropriation, but no person so appointed shall be a member of the commission. The commission may make its own by-laws. (99 v. 362 § § 3, 9.)

SECTION 1362. Expenses of commission. The members of the commission for the blind shall receive no compensation for their services, but their traveling and other necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties, when approved by the president of the commission, shall be paid by the state upon the order of the auditor of state. (99 v. 364 § 11.)

SECTION 1363. Object of commission. The commission for the blind shall act as a bureau of information and industrial aid, the object of which shall be to assist the blind in finding employment and to teach them industries which may be followed in their homes. (99 v. 363 § 5.)

SECTION 1364. Duties of commission. It shall be the duty of the commission for the blind to prepare and maintain a complete register of the blind in the state which shall describe the condition, cause of blindness, capacity for educational and industrial training of each, and such other facts as the commission deems of value. (99 v. 363 § 4.)

SECTION 1365. Visits to aged or helpless blind. The commission for the blind may ameliorate the condition of the aged or helpless blind by promoting visits to them in their homes for the purpose of instruction and by such other lawful method as the commission deems expedient. (99 v. 363 § § 8.)

SECTION 1366. Schools and workshops. The commission for the blind may establish, equip and maintain schools for industrial training and workshops for the employment of suitable blind persons, pay the employes suitable wages and devise means for the sale and distribution of the products thereof. The commission may also provide or pay for during their training the temporary lodging and support of pupils or workmen received at any industrial schools or workshops established by it. (99 v. 363 § § 6, 7.)

SECTION 1367. Prevention of blindness. The commission for the blind shall make inquiries concerning the cause of blindness to ascertain what portion of such cases are preventable and co-operate with the state board of health in the adoption and enforcement of proper preventive measures. (99 v. 363 § 10.)

SECTION 1368. Use of receipts and earnings. In furtherance of the purposes of this chapter, the commission for the blind shall have authority to use any receipts or earnings that accrue from the operation of industrial schools and workshops as provided in this chapter, but a detailed statement of receipts or earnings and expenditures shall be made monthly to the auditor of state. (99 v. 364 § 12.)

SECTION 1369. Annual report. The commissioners for the blind shall make an annual report to the governor of its proceedings for each fiscal year. It shall embody therein a properly classified and tabulated statement of its estimates for the ensuing year with its own opinion as to the necessity or expediency of appropriation in accordance with such estimates. Such annual report shall also present a concise review of the work of the commission for the preceding year with such suggestions and recommendations for improving the condition of the blind as may be expedient. (99 v. 363 § 9, as amended May 21, 1910.)

JUVENILE COURT

SECTION 1639. What courts shall have power and jurisdiction. "Juvenile Court" defined. Courts of common pleas, probate courts, and insolvency courts and superior courts, where established shall have and exercise, concurrently, the powers and jurisdiction conferred in this chapter. The judges of such courts in each county, at such times as they determine, shall designate one of their number to transact the business arising under such jurisdiction. When the term of the judge so designated expires, or his office terminates, another designation shall be made in like manner. In case of the temporary absence or disability of the judge so designated another designation shall be made in like manner to cover the period of such absence or disability.

The words, juvenile court, when used in the statutes of Ohio shall be understood as meaning the court in which the judge so designated may be sitting while exercising such jurisdiction, and the words "judge of the juvenile court" or "juvenile judge" as meaning such judge while exercising such jurisdiction.

The foregoing provisions shall not apply to Hamilton county, in which county the powers and jurisdiction conferred in this chapter shall be exercised by the court of common pleas, and in 1914 and every sixth year thereafter, one of the common pleas judges to be elected at said times shall be elected as a judge of the court of common pleas, division of domestic relations. To him shall be assigned all juvenile court work arising under this chapter, and all divorce and alimony cases, and whenever said judge of the court of common pleas, division of domestic relations, shall be sick, absent or unable to perform his duties, the presiding judge of the common pleas court shall assign another common pleas judge to perform his duties during his illness, absence or indisposition. (As amended February 4, 1920.)

SECTION 1640. Seal. The seal of the court, the judge of which is designated to transact such business, shall be attached to all writs and processes. (99 v. 192 § 2.)

SECTION 1641. Appearance docket and journal. The clerk of the court of the judge exercising the jurisdiction shall keep an appearance docket and a journal, in the former of which shall be entered the style of the case and a minute of each proceeding and in the latter of which shall be entered all orders, judgments and findings of the court. (99 v. 192 § 3.)