690 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 326

officer, and may require such child to report to said Court or
probation officer at such times as said Court shall order. Or
if said Court shall then or thereafter find the parent, parents,
guardian or custodian of such child an unfit or improper per-
son or persons, or unable or unwilling to care for, protect,
train, educate or discipline such child, and shall further
find it to be to the interest of such child or the people of said
County that such child be taken from the custody of such
parent, parents, guardian or custodian, said Court may pass
an order committing the child to the custody of some agency,
or to some suitable institution, State or otherwise organized
for the care of children, until it becomes twenty-one years of
age; and said agency or institution may place such child in
the home of some suitable family. Said Court, however, shall
retain the right to remove such child from such family, home,
agency, or institution, for such reasons as the Court may deter-
mine sufficient.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That whenever any such
child is so committed to an agency or institution, and the said
child is placed, by such agency or institution, in a family
home, as hereinbefore authorized, it shall be the duty of
such agency or institution to cause one of its responsi-
ble representatives to visit such child at least once in every
three months, unless otherwise ordered by said Court, and to
report to said Court 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 said Court as
often as directed by the order of appointment; and if any
child so placed in a home or institution, or in any custody
whatsoever, shall leave or quit the same before attaining adult
age, and without leave of said Court, he or she shall be appre-
hended and brought before said Court, and said Court shall
award the custody of said child as said Court shall determine
to be best for the interest of said child and the community. All
orders of the Court shall be noted fully in the docket pro-
vided for by this Act, and the originals carefully preserved in
the Clerk's Office, and a duplicate copy made and presented to
the custodian so appointed.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That in any proceed-
ing begun by petition under this Act, wherein the parent or
parents or other person charged by law with the support of
any dependent, neglected or delinquent child shall be made
defendant or defendants, the said Court shall have full power