230 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

after find the parent, parents, guardian or custodian of such
child an unfit or improper person or persons, or unable or un-
willing to care for, protect, train, educate and discipline such
child, and shall further find it to be for the interest of such
child or the people of the County that such child be taken
from the custody of such parent, parents, guardian or cus-
todian, the Court may make an order committing such child
to the custody of the probation officer or other agency, or to
some suitable institution, State or otherwise, organized for the
care of children, approved by the Court, until it becomes
twenty-one years of age; and said probation officer, agency or
institution may place such child in the home of some suitable
family. The Court, however, shall retain the right to remove
such child from such family, home, agency or institution, for
such reasons as the Court may determine sufficient.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That whenever any such child is
so committed to a probation officer and the said child is placed
in a family home, the Court or Judge shall appoint the proba-
tion officer guardian of such child; and whenever any such
child is so committed to any agency or institution and placed
in a family home, some responsible representative of such agency
or institution shall be appointed guardian of such child by the
Court or Judge. And it shall be the duty of such guardian to
visit each child committed to his or her custody and placed in
a family home at least once in every three months, unless other-
wise ordered by the Court or Judge, and to report to the Court
or Judge the condition and progress of such child; and such
guardian shall exercise proper care for the schooling and train-
ing of such child, and make report to the Court as often as
directed by the order of appointment; and if any child so
placed in such a home or institution shall leave or quit the same
before attaining adult age, and without leave of the Court or
Judge, he or she shall be apprehended and brought before the
Court or Judge and dealt with as the Court or Judge shall
determine to be best for the interest of the child and the com-
munity. All orders of the Court or Judge shall be noted fully
in the docket provided for by this Act, and the originals care-
fully preserved in the Clerk's office, and a duplicate copy made
and presented to the guardian so appointed.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the said Circuit Court for
Baltimore County, or the Judge designated as hereinbefore pro-
vided, shall when sitting for the discharge of the duties im-
posed by this Act, be known as the "Circuit Court for Balti-