and it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to provide for the payment of such employees as may be needed in the efficient management of such detention home.

Dependent and Neglected Children. If the court shall find any child under the age of eighteen years to be dependent or neglected within the meaning of this act, the court may allow such child to remain at its home subject to the friendly visitation of a probation officer, or to report to the court or probation officer from its home or school at such times as the court may require. And if parent, parents, guardian, or custodian consent thereto, or if the court shall further find that the parent, parents, guardian, or custodian of such child are unfit or improper guardians or are unable or unwilling to care for, protect, train, educate, correct, or discipline such child, and that it is for the interest of such child and other people of this state that such child be taken from the custody of its parents, custodian, or guardian, the court may make an order appointing as guardian of the person of such child, some reputable citizen of good moral character, and order such guardian to place such child in some suitable family, home, or other suitable place which such guardian may provide for such child, or the court may enter an order committing such child to some suitable state institution, of this or any other state organized for the care of dependent or neglected children, or to some training or industrial school or childrens' home-finding society of this or any other state, or to some association embracing in its objects the purpose of caring for or obtaining homes for neglected or dependent children, which association shall have been accredited as heretofore provided. As amended, Stats. 1911,

386.

SEC. 8. Guardianship. In every case where such child is committed to an institution, or association, the court shall appoint the president, secretary, or superintendent of such institution or association, guardian over the person of such child and shall order such guardian to place such child in such institution or with such association, whereof he is such officer, and to hold such child, care for, train, and educate it subject to the rules and laws that may be in force from time to time governing such institution or association.

SEC. 9. Delinquent Children. If the court shall find any child under the age of eighteen years to be delinquent within the meaning of this act, the court may allow such child to remain at its own home subject to the friendly visitation of a probation officer, such child to report to the court or probation officer with such record of its conduct in its home or school as the court may require as often as may be required, and if the parents, parent, guardian, or custodian consent thereto or if the court shall further find either that the parent, parents, guardian, or custodian are unfit or improper guardians or are unable or unwilling to care for, protect, educate, or discipline such child, and shall further find that the parent, parents, guardian, or custodian are unfit or improper guardians or are unable or unwilling to care for, protect, educate, or discipline. such child, and shall further find that it is for the interest of such child and other people of this state that such child be taken from the custody of its parents, parent, custodian, or guardian, the court may appoint some proper person or probation officer, guardian over the per

son of such child and permit it to remain at its home or order such guardian to cause such child to be placed in a suitable family home, or cause it to be boarded out in some suitable home, in case provision is made by voluntary contribution or otherwise for the payment of the board; or the court may commit such child to any institution incorporated under the laws of this or any other state to care for delinquent children, or to any institution that has been or may be provided by the state, county, city, town, or village suitable for the care of delinquent children including a detention home or school, or to some association that will receive it, embracing in its objects the care of neglected, dependent, or delinquent children and which has been duly accredited as hereinbefore provided. In every case where such child is committed to an institution or association, the court shall appoint the president, secretary, or superintendent of such institution or association, guardian over the person of such child, and shall order such guardian to place such child in such institution or with such association, whereof he is such officer, and to hold such child, care for, train, and educate it subject to the rules and laws that may be in force, from time to time governing such institution or association. As amended, Stats. 1911, 387. SEC. 10. The court may, in its discretion, in any case of a delinquent child, permit such child to be proceeded against in accordance with the laws that may be enforced in the state governing the commission of crimes or violation of city, village, or town ordinances; in such case the petition filed under this act shall be dismissed.

Whenever any person over the age of eighteen years and under the age of twenty-one years is accused of felony, and the indictment or information has been filed in the district court of the county wherein the crime was committed, charging said person with the commission of said felony, the judge may, in his discretion, with the consent of the accused, or upon his request, arrest said proceeding at the time of the arraignment or at any time previous to the impanelment of the jury, except where the crime charged is a capital offense or an attempt to commit a capital offense, and may proceed to investigate the charge against the defendant, and all the facts and circumstances necessary to determine the proper disposition to be made of said person, and shall determine whether said person shall be dealt with as a delinquent under the provisions of this act.

If the court is satisfied upon such investigation that said person should be declared a delinquent and should be dealt with under this act, it may make such order as herein provided for the disposition of delinquent children. If such person thereafter proves not to be amenable to the discipline of the school to which he may be committed, and the trustees thereof shall determine that said person should be committed to a state penitentiary, such person should be returned to the custody of the sheriff of the county in which such crime was committed, and thereafter proceedings shall be had upon the indictment or information commencing at the point at which proceedings were arrested; and said person shall be tried for the offense alleged in the information, and if convicted shall be sent to the penitentiary for such time as the court may determine, or otherwise dealt with in accordance with the law for dealing with persons convicted of a felony. If no request is made by the defendant for proceedings under this statute, or if the

defendant desires a trial by jury, or if the judge declines to consent to the application of the defendant for proceedings under this statute, said cause shall proceed in the ordinary manner up to the verdict of guilty or not guilty, as the case may be. If said person is convicted, the court may thereafter receive such evidence as may be offered, touching the question as to whether or not said person shall be dealt with as a delinquent in the manner hereinbefore provided in the case of the application and consent of the accused before trial, and may make such order of probation or commitment to said state schools, and may from time to time modify said probation order, as is herein provided in the case of children adjudged delinquent. If such person during the period of his commitment to said state institution, proves to be incorrigible or not amenable to the discipline of such institution, and it shall be deemed advisable in the judgment of the trustees of such institution that said person be sent to the penitentiary, then said person shall be returned to the district court in which the verdict was rendered, for sentence, and thereupon the court shall pronounce judgment. As amended, Stats. 1911, 388.

SEC. 11. The court may when the health or condition of any child found to be dependent, neglected, or delinquent, requires it, order the guardian to cause such child to be placed in a public hospital or institution for treatment or special care, or in a private hospital or institution which will receive it for like purposes, without charge to the public authorities.

SEC. 12. Guardianship, How Perfected. Any child found to be dependent or neglected or delinquent as defined in this act and awarded by the court to a guardian institution or association, shall be held by such guardian institution or association, as the case may be, by virtue of the order entered in such case, and the clerk of the court shall issue and cause to be delivered to such guardian or association a certified copy of such order of the court, which certified copy of such order shall be proof of such guardian institution or association in behalf of such child. The guardianship under this act shall continue until the court shall by further order otherwise direct, but not after such child shall have reached the age of twenty-one (21) years, but if the parent or parents or grandparent or grandparents of such dependent or neglected child are poor and cannot properly care for, maintain, and properly educate such child, but are otherwise proper guardians and a person or persons of good reputation and morals, and shall covenant and agree that such child shall attend school regularly during all school days, when such child is of school age, or until such child shall have completed the eighth grade of the public grammar school, or school of like grades of studies, or have graduated in bookkeeping and commercial course, the court may enter an order finding such facts, and fixing the amount of money necessary to enable the parent or parents or grandparent or grandparents to properly care for and educate such child, providing such amount shall not exceed the amount it would cost the county to have such child maintained and educated at any county or state home, or place provided for dependent or neglected children, in the State of Nevada, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the county board through its county agent, or otherwise, to pay to such parent or parents, or grandparent or grandparents, or blood aunt or blood uncle, the

amount specified at such times as said order may designate for the care of such neglected or. dependent child,, until the further order of the court, and the court shall cease to sanction the payment of the specified amount whenever it shall appear that such child is not receiving the benefit it should from the payment of said specified amount of money. Sec. 2. Any person or persons who shall violate any of the provisions of the said act as amended shall upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum of money not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or not less than sixty (60) days nor more than two hundred days (200) in the county jail, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Sec. 3. All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this act as amended are hereby repealed. This act shall become effective on the first day of the commencement of the ensuing term of the public school after its enactment and approval. As amended, Stats. 1913, 174.

SEC. 13. The court may, from time to time, cite into court the guardian, institution or association to whose care any dependent, neglected or delinquent child has been awarded, and require him or it to make a full, true, and perfect report as to his or its doings in behalf of such child; and it shall be the duty of such guardian, institution, or association, within ten days after such citation, to make such report either in writing verified by affidavit, or verbally under oath in open court, or otherwise as the court shall direct, and upon the hearing of such report, with or without further evidence, the court may, if it sees fit, remove such guardian and appoint another in his stead, or take such child away from such institution or association and place it in another, or restore such child to the custody of its parents or former guardian or custodian.

SEC. 14. Transfers from Justice and Police Magistrates. When in any county where a court is held as provided in section 2 of this act, any child under the age of eighteen 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 the justice of the peace or police magistrate, such justice or magistrate shall inquire into such case, and unless he be of the opinion that no sufficient foundation exists for the charge of dependency or delinquency, it shall be the duty of such justice of the peace or police magistrate to transfer the case to the district court, and the officer having the child in charge take the child before such court, and in any case the district 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 shall require notice to be given and investigation shall be made as in other cases under this act, and may adjourn the hearing from time to time for that purpose. As amended, Stats, 1911, 389.

SEC. 15. Children Under Twelve Years Not To Be Committed to Jail. No court or magistrate shall commit a child under twelve 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 suitable place provided by the city or county outside of the enclosure of any jail or police station. 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 within the same building with such adult convict, or to confine such child in the same yard or enclosure with such adult convicts, or to bring such child into any yard or building in which adult convicts may be present.

In counties of over ten thousand population the county commissioners of each of said counties are authorized and required without unreasonable delay to provide, furnish, and maintain at public expense a building suitable and adequate for the purpose of a detention home located at the county-seat of each of said counties, for the detention of the dependent and delinquent children and wherein all children within the provisions of this act shall, when necessary, before or after trial, be detained, either for securing the attendance of such children at any hearing or trial or when under order of probation for the best interests of said child and of the state. Such detention home shall be under the supervision of a matron who with other necessary employees shall be appointed by the judge or judges of the district court on the nomination of the probation committee, and their salaries shall be fixed by the judge or judges of the district court of the county, and such employees shall hold their positions during the pleasure of the judge or judges of their county. Such detention home shall be conducted as nearly like a home as possible, and shall not be deemed to be, or treated as a penal institution.

Whenever, in the discretion of the district judge or judges and probation officer, it becomes necessary to provide a superintendent or other male attendant at such detention home, the district judge or judges shall make such appointment, which appointee shall be deputized as, and clothed with the authority of, a probation officer, and it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to provide for the payment of all salaries and expenses occasioned thereby.

Any child within the provisions of this act, informed against or regarding which a petition has been filed, or for any purpose taken into custody, shall, at any time before it is tried and adjudged to be delinquent, be entitled, by any friend or parent offering sufficient surety, to give bond or other security for its appearance at any hearing or trial of such case as such right is given to persons informed against the crime; and the court may in any case, upon the request of said child, or parent representing it, appoint counsel to appear on behalf of any such child, such counsel to receive no pay from the county. As amended, Stats. 1911, 389.

SEC. 16. Agents of Juvenile Reformatories. It shall be the duty of the board of managers, trustees, or such authorities as may be vested by law with the control or management of any state institution now or hereafter established to which juvenile delinquents may, be committed by the courts of this state, 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 institutions where they have suitable homes; to assist children paroled or discharged from such institutions in finding employment and to maintain a friendly supervision over paroled inmates during the continuance of their parole; such agent shall hold office subject to the pleasure of the board or other authority having charge of said institu