Guardianship. Disposition of delinquent children. or obtaining homes for dependent or neglected children, which association shall have been accredited as hereinafter provided. The court may, when the health or condition of the child shall require it, cause the 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. SECTION 8. 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 a child in a family home, with or without indenture, and be made party to any proceedings 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. Such guardianship shall not include the guardianship of any estate of the child. SECTION 9. 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 or custody of a probation officer, and may allow said child to remain in its own home, subject to the visitation of the probation officer; and subject to be returned to the court for further or other proceedings whenever such action may appear to be necessary; or the court may cause the child to be placed in a suitable family home, subject to the friendly supervision of a probation officer, and the further order of the court, or it may authorize the child to be boarded out 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 such child, if a boy, to a training school for boys, or, if a girl, to an industrial school for girls, or the court may commit the child to any institution within the county, incorporated under the laws of this state, that may care for delinquent children, or be provided by a city or county suitable for the care of such children, or to the boys' industrial school at Lancaster, or to any state institution which may be established for the care of delinquent boys. or if a girl over the age of nine (9) years, to the girls' industrial home at Delaware, or to any state institution which may be established for the care of delinquent girls. In no case shall a child be committed to such institution beyond the age of twenty-one (21). A child committed to such institution shall be subject to the control of the board of trustees thereof, and the said bcard shall have power to parole such child on such condition as it may prescribe; and on the recommendation of the board of trustees the superintendent shall have power to discharge such child from custody, 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 or dependent children, and that has been duly accredited as hereinafter provided. SECTION 10. Transfer from justices and judges of police courts-When [in] any county where a court is held, as provided in section three (3) of this act, a child under the age of sixteen (16) years is arrested without warrant, such child, instead of being taken before a justice of the peace. or judge of a police court, shall be taken directly before such juvenile court; or, if the child is taken before a justice of the peace, or judge of a police court, it shall be the duty of such justice of the peace or judge of a police court, to transfer the case to such juvenile court, and the officer having the child in charge shall take the child before that court, and in any 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 hereinafter 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. Transfer from judges of police courts. justices and twelve years not to be com SECTION II. Children under twelve years not to Children under be committed to jail-No court or magistrate shall commit a child under twelve (12) years of age to a jail or police mitted to jail. 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 by a juvenile court. 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 enclosure with such adult convicts, or to bring such child into any yard or building in which adult convicts may be present. SECTION 12. Agents of juvenile reformatories It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the boys' industrial school at Lancaster, and of the girls' industrial home at Delaware, 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 home 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 over paroled inmates during the continuance of their parole; such agents shall hold office subject to the pleasure of 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. Agents of juvenile re formatories. Supervision by board of state charities. Incorporation of associations. Surrender of dependent children; adoption. SECTION 13. Supervision by board of state charities-All associations receiving children under this act shall be subject to the same visitation inspection and supervision by the board of state charities as are the public charitable institutions of this state, and it shall be the duty of the said board to pass annually upon the fitness of every such association as may receive, or desire to receive, children under the supervision of this act, and every such association shall annually, at such time as said board shall direct, make report thereto, showing its condition, management and competency adequately to care for such children as are, or may be committed to it, and such other facts as said board may require, and when said board is satisfied that such association is competent and has adequate facilities to care for such children, it shall issue to the association a certificate to that effect, which certificate shall continue in force for one (1) year, unless sooner revoked by said board, and no child shall be committed to any association which shall not have received such a certificate within fifteen (15) months next preceding the commitment. The court may, at any time, require from any association, receiving or desiring to receive children under the provision in this act, such reports, information and statements as the judge shall deem proper and necessary for his action, and the court shall in no case be required to commit a child to any association whose standing, conduct or care of children, or ability to care for the same, is not satisfactory to the court. SECTION 14. 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 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 the secretary of the board of state charities that he has examined the said articles of incorporation, and that, in his judgment, the incorporators are reputable and respectable persons, that 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 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 the secretary of the board of state charities that he has examined the said amendment, that the association in question is, in his judgment, performing in good faith the work undertaken by it, and that the said amendment is, in his judgment, a proper one, and for the public good. SECTION 15. Surrender of dependent childrenAdoption-It shall be lawful for the parents, parent, guard ian or other person or persons having the right to dispose of a dependent or neglected child to enter into an agreement with any association or institution incorporated under any law of this state which shall have been approved as herein provided for the purpose of aiding, caring for or placing in homes such children or 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, guardian or other person, the same as if such person were personally in court and consented thereto, whether made party to the proceeding or not. SECTION 16. Foreign corporations-No associa- Foreign cortion, which is incorporated under the laws of any other state porations. than the state of Ohio, shall place any child in any family home within the boundaries of the state of Ohio, either with or without indenture or for adoption, unless the said association shall have furnished the state board of charities with such guaranty as it may require that no child shall be brought into the state of Ohio by such society, or its agents, having any contagious or incurable disease, or having any deformity, or being of feeble mind, or of vicious character, and that said association will promptly receive and remove from the state any child brought into the state of Ohio by its agents, which shall become a public charge within the period of five (5) years, after being brought into this state. Any person who shall receive to be placed in a home, or shall place in a home, any child in behalf of any association incorporated in any other state than the state of Ohio, which shall not have complied with the requirements of this act, shall be imprisoned in the county jail not more than thirty days, or fined not less than five dollars or more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or both, in the discretion of the court. SECTION 17. Religious preference-The court in Religious committing children shall place them, so far as practicable, preference. in the care and custody of some individual holding the same religious belief as the parents of said child, or with some association which is controlled by persons of like religious faith to the parents of the said child. training SECTION 18. Industrial and training schools not Industrial and affected-Nothing in this act shall be construed to repeal schools not afany portion of the acts relating to the boys' industrial school fected. at Lancaster or the girls' industrial home at Delaware. of the act. SECTION 19. Construction of the act-This act Construction shall be liberally construed to the end that its purpose may be carried out to-wit: That the care, custody and discipline of a child shall approximate as nearly as may be, that which Support of neglected, dependent or definquent child. should be given by its parents, and in all cases where it can properly be done, the child be placed in an approved family home, and become a member of the family by legal adoption, or otherwise. SECTION 21. In any case in which the court shall find a child neglected, dependent or delinquent, it may, in the same or subsequent proceeding upon the parents of said child, or either of them, being duly summoned or voluntarily appearing, proceed to inquire into the ability of such parent or parents, to support the child or to contribute to its support, and if the court shall find such parent, or parents, able to support the child, or contribute thereto, the court may enter such order or decree, relating to such report [support] as the equity of the case demands, and if the decree of the court be that any such parent discipline and control a delinquent child, then the court may enforce such order by fine imposed on any such parent, not to exceed, for the first offense, twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and for each subsequent offense one hundred dollars ($100.00). SECTION 22. Nothing herein shall be taken or held to repeal or affect the provisions of an act entitled "An act to establish a juvenile court in certain counties, and to regulate the control of delinquent and neglected children," passed April 18, 1902, (95 O. L. 785). Secretary of state: Secretary of state to give notice for als to furnish paper. [House Bill No. 478.] AN ACT To amend sections 133 and 131 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: Sec. 133. When the amount and grades are ascertained and fixed as aforesaid, the secretary of state shall sealed propos- give notice weekly, for four consecutive weeks, in at least three daily newspapers printed, and of general circulation, in the state, immediately preceding the second Monday in September, setting forth that sealed proposals will be received at the office of the secretary of state until 12 o'clock, noon, on the second Monday of September following, for |