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fied by affidavit. It shall be sufficient that the affidavit is upon information and belief.

Summons to issue; notice to parents; committment. SECTION 5. Upon the filing of the petition, a summons shall issue from the court, requiring the person having custody or control of the child, or with whom the child may be, to appear with the child at the place and time stated in the summons, which time shall be not less than twenty-four hours after service. The parents of the child, if living, and their residence 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 case 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 cannot 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 be issued 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 return 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 manWhen any child under the age of sixteen years shall be found to be dependent or neglected within the meaning of this act, the court may make an order committing the child to the care of some suitable state or county institution as provided by law, or to the care of some incorporated association willing to receive it, embracing in its objects the purpose of caring or obtaining homes for dependent or neglected children. Pending the final disposition of any case, the child may be retained in the possession of the person having the charge of the same, or committed to the care and guardianship of the probation officer, or may be kept in some suitable place provided by the proper authorities.

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Custody of child during hearing. SECTION 6. In 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 re

turned 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, subject to the friendly supervision of such probation officer; or it may authorize the said probation officer, to board out the 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; or the court may commit the child if a boy, to an industrial school for boys, or if a girl, to an industrial school for girls; or the court may commit the child to the care and custody of some association or institution that will receive it, embracing in its objects the care of neglected, dependent or delinquent children.

When child to be brought before juvenile court instead of justice of peace. SECTION 7. When in any county where a juvenile court is held as provided in section 2 of this act, a child under the age of sixteen years is arrested, with or without warrant, charged with the violation of any law of this state the penalty for which is not imprisonment in the state prison, or the violation of any city or village ordinance, 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 be 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 case 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 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.

Preliminary hearing may be held, when; bail. SECTION 8. When in any county where a juvenile court is held as provided' in section 2 of this act, a child under the age of sixteen years is arrested, with or without a warrant, charged with the violation of any law of this state the penalty for which is imprisonment in the state prison, the magistrate before whom the prisoner is brought shall as soon as may be, hold a preliminary examination of the offender, and all the provisions of chapter 195 of the Wisconsin statutes of 1898, relative to the arrest and examination of offenders shall be applicable, except that in case

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it shall appear that an offense has been committed, and that there is probable cause to believe the prisoner guilty, the magistrate shall admit the prisoner to bail or commit him for trial to the juvenile court, and all provisions of law relating to proceedings in criminal cases in circuit courts shall be applicable to the trial, sentence and commitment of such offenders in such juvenile court; provided however that such court may in its discretion commit such offenders as provided in section 6 of

this act.

Child under fourteen not to be committed to police station. SECTION 9. No court or magistrate shall commit a child under fourteen 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, which shall be provided by the city or county outside of the enclosure of any jail or police station. When any child under sixteen years of age 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 room with such adult convicts, or to confine such child in the same yard or enclosure with such adult convicts, or to bring such child into any yard, hall or room in which such adult convicts may be present.

Board of visitation; report of. SECTION 10. The judge of such juvenile court may appoint a board of six reputable inhabitants, who will serve without compensation, to constitute a board of visitation, whose duty it shall be to visit as often as once a year, all institutions, societies and associations receiving children under this act; said visits shall be made by not less than two of the members of the board, who shall go together or make a joint report; the said board of visitors shall report to the court from time to time the condition of the children received by or in charge of such associations, and institutions, and shall make an annual report to the state board of control in such form as the board may prescribe. The county board may at its discretion, make appropriations for the payment of the actual necessary expenses incurred by the visitors in the discharge of their official duties.

SECTION 11. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after three months next after its passage and publication. Approved March 26, 1901.

No. 401, A.]

[Published March 28, 1901.

CHAPTER 91.

AN ACT "To authorize the establishment of traveling and permanent libraries by counties and to permit counties to receive gifts of lands, buildings, money, books or other property for the permanent use and maintenance of the same."

The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows:

County board may appoint board of libraries. SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of any county may establish a board of libraries, and elect five directors thereof, of either sex, who may hold their office for three years, and until their successors are qualified, excepting the first year, when there shall be elected two directors for one year, two for two years and one for three years. Their term of office shall begin at once on their first election, but thereafter at the same date with county officers. Vacancies shall be filled by similar election of a successor to complete the term. No compensation or expenses whatever shall be allowed said directors.

Officers of board; powers of. shall, upon a date appointed by the chairman of the county board, within thirty days after their first election, elect from their number a president, vice president, secretary and such other officers as they may deem necessary, and thereafter hold their annual election on the last Wednesday in January. They may make and adopt rules and by-laws for their own guidance, and of the county traveling libraries and officers thereof or of such permanent libraries established under section 7 of this act. They shall have the exclusive control of the expenditures of all moneys appropriated, or property or money donated for the uses of the county traveling libraries, or such permanent libraries, and the establishment, location, supervision, care, control and custody of such libraries; but shall not allow or pay any sums whatever for the keeping, care, transporting or librarian service of such county traveling libraries. They shall have exclusive charge and control of all lands, buildings, moneys or property devised, bequeathed or given to any county for li

SECTION 2. The said directors

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Supervising librarian and duties of. SECTION 3. The said board of libraries may appoint a supervising librarian for such such county traveling libraries, at a salary not to exceed fifty dollars per annum, whose duty it shall be to arrange the books in their cases and repair them when slightly injured, keep the records, instruct the librarians of county traveling libraries in their duty, and perform such other duties as directed by the said board. Such supervising librarian shall be a resident of the county, of either sex, and may be permitted such expenses, as necessary travel in establishing county traveling libraries, or other expenses found necessary in the interest of the county traveling libraries. Such salary and expenses to be paid by the county board on the certificate of president and secretary of the board of libraries.

Duty of board as to books. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of the board of libraries to purchase suitable books for the county traveling libraries, arrange them in proper cases, and distribute such cases of books to as many districts as equally distant from each other as their means will permit, with the object in view of finally serving libraries within easy reach of all the people of the county. Such libraries may be located at suitable places in any town, village or city, within the county, and not permitted to remain in one location longer than six months, except upon application of not less than five patrons holding cards in such library, when such time may be extended not to exceed thirty days. Upon such removal another library may be loaned in its place successively for similar periods.

Appropriation for maintenance of libraries. SECTION 5. For the purpose of such county traveling libraries any county may appropriate the first year not to exceed five hundred dollars and thereafter annually not to exceed two hundred dollars. Such money shall be retained by the treasurer of the county in a separate fund. It shall be paid out on order of the board of libraries, signed by its president and secretary. All the books, 'property, moneys, donations, devises, bequests or gifts, bought or appropriated or given for the purposes of this act, shall remain the property of the county for the uses herein enacted.

Free Library Commission to advise. SECTION 6. The Wisconsin Free Library Commission may advise any board of li braries as far as practicable in the conduct of its work.

County may receive devises, bequests, etc. SECTION 7. Any county may receive by devise, bequests or gifts of lands, buildings, money, books or other property for the pur