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their successors shall be appointed for terms of four years. All vacancies
in such committee shall be filled by the Governor for the unexpired term.
The duties of such committee shall be as follows: (1) They shall recom-
mend to the Governor qualified persons to be appointed as magistrates for
juvenile causes of their respective counties. (2) Each committee shall meet
with the respective magistrates in their county at least four (4) times
annually and shall confer with and make recommendations to such magis-
trate as to the appointment of probation officers as may be hereafter pro-
vided for. (3) They shall confer with the magistrates for juvenile causes
of their respective counties and render such service as the magistrates may
require in their discretion.

1931, ch. 323, sec. 86.

86. The magistrates for juvenile causes for each of the several counties
of the State shall appoint a probation officer or officers who shall receive
such compensation as shall be provided by the County Commissioners of
the several counties. The magistrates for juvenile causes of the several
counties may also appoint, from time to time, additional probation officers,
upon recommendation of the respective juvenile court committees, to serve-
without pay during the pleasure of the said magistrates. Such additional
probation officers are subject to the same orders and directions, are under
the same supervision and are vested with the same authority as are the
regularly appointed paid probational officers herein provided for. All such
probation officers receiving or not receiving compensation for their services,
shall have had at least one year's experience in the field of social work.
Any person appointed as probation officer in any county may also be ap-
pointed probation officer for one or more additional counties.

1931. ch. 323, sec. 87.

87. Said probation officers shall be known as "Probation Officers for
Delinquent and Dependent Children. " They shall be at all times subject
to the orders and directions and shall be under the supervision of the
appointing magistrate. In the execution of their office they shall be vested
with all the privileges and authority of constables. In any proceeding,
before any magistrate for juvenile causes involving a hearing, trial, deten-
tion, the custody or commitment of any minor, one or more of the pro-
bation officers provided for aforesaid shall make such investigation and
make return thereof as may be required by said magistrate and shall exe-
cute such further orders or directions as such magistrate may from time
to time require. The probation officers herein provided for shall have
the power to bring any minor or minors who may be on probation as afore-
said before the juvenile court by a process of warrant duly sworn to,
charging him or them with violation of the terms or conditions of their
probation, or by subpoena directed to them for further proceedings, and
when such action is taken the magistrate aforesaid may continue the pro-
ceeding and finally dispose, of -the same as fully as could have been done
had there been no suspension of sentence or proceedings in the first place;