EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 1427

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, how-
ever, shall retain the right to move such child from such fam-
ily, home, agency or institution, for such reasons as the Court
may determine sufficient

167. Whenever any such child is so committed to a pro-
bation officer and the said child is placed in a family home,
the Court or Judge shall appoint the probation officer guar-
dian of such child; and whenever any such child is so com-
mitted to any agency or institution, and placed in a family
home, some responsible representative of such agency or insti-
tution 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 training 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.

168. The said Circuit Court for Harford County, or the
Judge designated as hereinbefore provided, shall when sitting
for the discharge of the duties imposed by this Act, be known
as the "Circuit Court for Harford County, sitting as a Juve-
nile Court, " and shall have exclusive jurisdiction, where juris-
diction is given by law to any Justice of the Peace in and for
Harford County, in all cases of trial or commitment to any
juvenile institution of any minor specified in this Act.

169. No Justice of the Peace shall commit for any reason
a child under fourteen years of age to a jail or police station
to be confined with other prisoners. If any such child shall
be unable to give bail for his or her appearance before the