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and authority to require such parent or parents or other person
so charged, to pay in full or in part the cost of maintaining
such child, and said Court shall have full power and authority
to assess the costs of such proceeding against such parent or
parents or other person so charged. Costs in such cases shall
be taxed in the customary amount, but in no case shall any
appearance fee be allowed, and fees to witnesses shall be al-
lowed only in the discretion of said Court.

In no case shall any person filing a petition under this
Act be held liable for any costs of the case unless the Court
shall be satisfied that the case was instituted without reason-
able grounds or through prejudice, upon which finding all
costs of the proceeding may be assessed against the Petitioner
in the discretion of said Court.

SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That, except as here-
inbefore provided, all costs incurred in the prosecution of cases
under this Act shall be paid by the County Commissioners of
the County wherein said cases shall be prosecuted, and it shall
be the duty of the County Commissioners of each of the several
Counties to make all levies and appropriations necessary to
provide for the payment of the salaries, fees, expenses and costs
made by this Act payable by the County Commissioners of
such County.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That no Justice of the
Peace in and for any of the several Counties 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 as
and where demanded, he or she shall be committed to the care
of a probation officer of the Circuit Court for said County, or
to the custody of some society or juvenile institution organized
for the care of children.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That any person who
shall willfully contribute to or encourage, delinquency or de-
pendency of any minor as hereinbefore defined; or any person
charged by law with the care and support of any minor who
shall willfully neglect to care for or support such child, or any
person who shall advise or encourage any child to leave the
home, school, or institution to which such child shall have been
committed by any Court of competent jurisdiction, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined or imprisoned or
both in the discretion of the Court trying such offense or the
justice in tie cases where the justice has jurisdiction.