PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 593

duty of such officer to bring the same to the attention of the
Court or the Judge by petition, as hereinbefore provided.

In addition to the salary above provided for such probation
officer, he or she, shall be allowed for all actual traveling ex-
penses when in the discharge of duties imposed by order of the
Court or Judge, to be paid by the County Commissioners upon
the approval and order of such Court or Judge. And the said
Court or Judge shall have authority to retain or employ a
Psychologist who holds a degree of Medicine and authorized
to practice in this State, for the examination, when necessary, of
said delinquents, the costs of the same to be paid by the County
Commissioners of said County and to be charged to the item of
Court Expenses.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That if upon a hearing
and investigation, the Court or Judge 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 Act, liberally construed, the Court or Judge
may allow such child to remain at its home, subject to the super-
vision of the probation officer, and may require such child to
report to the Court or probation officer at such times as the
Court or Judge shall order. Of if the Court shall then or there-
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 custodian, the
Court may make an order committing such child to the custody
of the probation officer or other agency, or to some suitable in-
stitution, 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 further 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 probation officer guardian of such child; and whenever any
such child is so committed to any agency or institution, and