COURTS. 945

An. Code, sec. 50. 1916, ch. 326, sec. 4.

50. The said Clerk shall, immediately upon the filing of the petition
and making the proper docket entries as provided in the preceding Sec-
tion, call the same to the attention of the Circuit Court for said County,
sitting in Juvenile Causes, and it shall be the duty of said Court, to pass
an order requiring the Sheriff or some constable of said County, or the
probation officer hereinafter named, to serve a summons upon all parties
named in said proceedings as defendants, to be and appear before said
Court, at the hour and upon the day therein named, and the Court may,
in its or his discretion, adopt all necessary means to have the body of the
child named in the proceedings brought before said Court at any desig-
nated time. It shall be the duty of the Clerk to issue summons for any
and all witnesses required by any petitioner to appear at the hearing of
his or her petition.

An. Code, sec. 51. 1916, ch. 326, sec. 5.

51. The Circuit Court for any of the several Counties sitting in Juve-
nile Causes may select some one of the Deputy Clerks (other than record-
ing clerk) employed in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of
said county to act as Clerk of said Circuit Court sitting in Juvenile Causes
in the exercise of the powers conferred upon said Court by this sub-title,
which clerk so selected shall have charge of the docket hereinbefore pro-
vided for, shall be present whenever said Court may sit for hearing cases
under the provisions of this sub-title, and make all proper entries in said
docket. That said Court shall have the power to direct the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for said County to have printed such forms or petitions,
orders and papers as the Court may deem requisite for the proper and con-
venient discharge of its duties under this sub-title, the cost of such printing
to be paid by the County Commissioners of said County, and to be charged
to the item of Court Expenses.

An. Code, sec. 52. 1916, ch. 326, sec. 6.

52. The Circuit Court for any of the several Counties, sitting in Juve-
nile Causes, shall appoint one or more probation officers, who may be either
male or female who shall be paid in monthly installments by the County
Commissioners of said County a salary to be fixed by said Court. It shall
be the duty of such officer or officers to inform himself or themselves when
any child is to be brought into said Court, and to make investigations of
all such cases, to be present in Court to represent the interest of the child
when the case is heard, and to furnish said Court such information and
assistance as said Court may require, and to take charge of such child be-
fore or after the trial as said Court may direct, and whenever such proba-
tion officer shall have knowledge of any dependent, neglected, or de-
linquent child, it shall be the duty of such officer to bring the same to the
attention of said Court by petition, as hereinbefore provided. In addi-
tion to the salary above provided for such probation officer, he or she, shall
be allowed for all actual and reasonable travelling expenses when in the
discharge of duties imposed by order of said Court, to be paid by the