946 ARTICLE 26.

County Commissioners upon the approval and order of said Court. Two
or more adjacent counties may, with the consent of the judges of the Judi-
cial Circuit or Circuits wherein they are situate, arrange for the appoint-
ment of a joint probation officer to serve the counties so arranging; and
the County Commissioners of each of such Counties shall have power to
make all necessary levies and appropriations to pay the salary and ex-
penses of such probation officer in such proportion as shall be mutually
agreed by said County Commissioners.

An. Code, sec. 53. 1916, ch. 326, sec. 7.

53. In the event that any minor, charged by petition filed under this
sub-title with a criminal offense for which a jury trial may be legally de-
mandable, may pray a jury trial when brought before the Circuit Court
for any County, sitting in Juvenile Causes, then said Court shall direct
said charge against said minor to be tried in like manner as other criminal
cases are now or may hereafter be tried; and the said Court shall have and
exercise in such case all its ordinary powers over the person of said minor
pending information, indictment or trial.

An. Code, sec. 54. 1916, ch. 326, sec. 8.

54. If upon hearing and investigation, the Circuit Court of any of
the several Counties, sitting in Juvenile Causes, shall find any male child
under twenty years of age, or any female child under the age of eighteen,
to be dependent, neglected or delinquent within the meaning of this sub-
title said Court may allow such child to remain at its home, subject to
the supervision of the probation officer, and may require such child to
report to said Court or probation officer at such times as said Court shall
order. Or if said Court shall then or thereafter find the parent, parents,
guardian or custodian of such child an unfit or improper person or persons,
or unable or unwilling to care for, protect, train, educate or discipline
such child, and shall further find it to be to the interest of such child or
the people of said County that such child be taken from the custody of
such parent, parents, guardian or custodian, said Court may pass an order
committing the child to the custody of some agency, or to some suitable
institution, State or otherwise organized for the care of children, until it
becomes twenty-one years of age; and said agency or institution may
place such child in the home of some suitable family. Said Court, how-
ever, shall retain the right to remove such child from such family, home,
agency, or institution, for such reasons as the Court may determine
sufficient.

An. Code, sec. 55. 1916, ch. 326, sec. 9.

55. Whenever any such child is so committed to an agency or institu-
tion, and the said child is placed, by such agency or institution, in a family
home, as hereinbefore authorized, it shall be the duty of such agency or
institution to cause one of its responsible representatives to visit such child
at least once in every three months, unless otherwise ordered by said
Court, and to report to said Court the condition and progress of such child;