EMERSON C. HARRINGTON, GOVERNOR. 689

male or female who shall be paid in monthly installments by
the County Commissioners of said County a salary to be fixed
by said Court. It shall be the duty of such officer or officers
to inform himself or themselves when any child is to be brought
into said Court, and to make investigations of all such cases,
to be present in Court to represent the interest of the child
when the case is heard, and to furnish said Court such infor-
mation and assistance as said Court may require, and to take
charge of such child before or after the trial as said Court
may direct, and whenever such probation officer shall have
knowledge of any dependent, neglected, or delinquent child, it
shall be the duty of such officer to bring the same to the atten-
tion of said Court by petition, as hereinbefore provided. In
addition to the salary above provided for such, probation offi-
cer, he or she, shall be allowed for all actual and reasonable trav-
elling expenses when in the discharge of duties imposed by or-
der of said Court, to be paid by the County Commissioners
upon the approval and order of said Court. Two or more
adjacent counties may, with the consent of the judges of the
Judicial Circuit or Circuits wherein they are situate, arrange
for the appointment 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 expenses of such
probation officer in such proportion as shall be mutually agreed
by said County Commissioners.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That in the event that
any minor, charged by petition filed under this Act with a
criminal offense for which a jury trial may be legally demand-
able, 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 here-
after 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.

SEC. S. And be it further enacted, That 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 Act said Court may allow such child to
remain at its home, subject to the supervision of the probation