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or suitable institution, State or otherwise, organized for the
care of children, until it becomes twenty-one years of age.
Said Magistrate, however, shall retain the right to remove such
child from such person, home, agency or institution for such
reasons as he may determine sufficient.

272G. Whenever any child is so committed to any person,
home, agency or institution, it shall be the duty of such person,
home, agency or institution to report to said Magistrate 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 Magistrate as often as directed
by the order of appointment; and if any child so placed with
any person, home, agency or institution, shall leave or quit
the same before attaining adult age, and without leave of said
Magistrate, he or she shall be apprehended and brought before
said Magistrate, and said Magistrate shall award the custody
of said child as said Magistrate may determine to be best for
the interest of said child and the community. All orders of
the Magistrate shall be noted in the docket provided for by this
Act, and the originals carefully preserved by the clerk in said
Magistrate's office, and a duplicate copy of such orders shall
be made and presented to the custodian so appointed.

272H. In any proceeding 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 Magis-
trate shall have full power and authority to require such par-
ent or parents or other person so charged to pay in full or
in part the cost of maintaining such child, and said Magis-
trate 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 custom-
ary amount, but in no case shall any appearance fee be al-
lowed, and fees to witnesses shall be allowed only in the dis-
cretion of said Magistrate, but when allowed, such witness
fees and mileage shall be the same as now allowed by the Cir-
cuit Court for Washington County.

In no case shall any person filing a petition under this Act be-
held liable for any costs of the case unless the Magistrate shall
be satisfied that the case was instituted without reasonable
grounds or through prejudice, upon which finding all costs of