party sum in case. of the child will be best subserved thereby, a summons shall Summons, issue, reciting the substance of the petition and requiring when and to the person or persons having custody or control of the child or with whom the child may be, to appear with the child at a place and time which shall be stated in the summons; and if such person is other than the parent or guardian of such child, then said parent or guardian shall be notified of the pendency of the case. When said parents or guardians are non-residents or cannot be found, such notice shall not be required. If persons so summoned as herein provided contempt of shall fail without reasonable cause to appear with the child court of and abide the order of the court, he may be proceeded against moned. for contempt of court under and in accordance with the provisions of chapters thirty-eight and three hundred one of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. In case the summons cannot be served, or parties fail to obey the summons and in any case when it shall appear to the court that such summons will be ineffectual, upon complaint on oath and writing, a writ may issue reciting the substance of When writ the complaint and requiring the officer to whom it is directed may issue. to bring such child before the court to be dealt with according to law and said child may be committed to the care of the county agent or probation officer, or such other person as the court may designate, pending the final disposition of the case. On the return of the summons or writ, or as soon Proceedings thereafter as may be, the court shall proceed to hear and dispose of the case upon such testimony as may be produced, and if the allegations against the child are proved the court may adjudge said child a delinquent, dependent or neglected child as the case may be, and if it shall appear to the court that the public interests and the interests of such child will be best subserved thereby, he may make an order for the return of such child to his or her parents or guardians or friends; or upon a finding of delinquency may impose a fine not to exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars, with costs, or Fine, etc. if the offence be malicious trespass the court may as a condition of probation require the damage to be made good, or if the offence be larceny and the stolen property be not restored, the court as a condition of probation may require it to be paid for by the child, if it be shown that he is capable of earning the money, or has money of his own, or the court may place the child under probation as hereinafter provided, and in all cases the court may decree the child found de- Child to be linquent, dependent or neglected to be the ward of the court ward of as far as its person is concerned, and in such cases where any child has been decreed to be a ward of the court, the authority of the court over its person shall continue until the court shall otherwise decree. The court may, in its Probation discretion, appoint one or more discreet persons of good officers a character, other than the county agent, to act as probation officers who, under the order of the court, shall exercise in all cases assigned them the same authority, direction and court. pointment of. To report. Proviso as to term. Court may revoke. When children may be sent to certain institutions. control of said child as is exercised by the county agent in like circumstances. Said probation officers shall report to the court upon all cases under their care, and also to the State Board of Corrections and Charities: Provided, That compensation. the probation officers so appointed shall receive no compensation from the public treasury for the duties performed under Probationary such appointment. The child found delinquent may be placed on probation for such time and upon such condition as the court may determine and such child so released on probation may be furnished with a written statement of the terms and condition of release. At any time during the probationary term of a child released on probation as aforesaid, the court may, in its discretion, revoke or terminate such probation. If the child be found to be wilfully wayward and unmanageable, and in any case upon the adjudication of delinquency, if in the judgment of the court the welfare of the child and the interests of the public require, the court may cause him or her to be sent to the Industrial School for Boys at Lansing, or the Industrial Home for Girls at Adrian, or to any State institution authorized by law to receive such boy or girl subject to such conditions of sex, age and character of offence for which committed and duration of commitment, as provided by law for the reception of children in said' school, home or institution, and in such case the report of the county agent or probation officer shall be attached to the mittimus and the child shall be placed in charge of the county agent or some person designated by the court, to be conveyed to the institution, for which service the same compensation shall be alProviso, when lowed as are paid sheriffs in like cases: Provided, That when a girl is to be conveyed to any institution a suitable woman shall be such officer so conveying such girl. accompanied by woman. Proceedings when child SEC. 6. Whenever any child under the age of seventeen arrested with- years is arrested, with or without a warrant, such child shall out warrant. be taken immediately before the judge of the juvenile court, and the officer making the arrest shall immediately make and file a petition against such child as herein before provided; and the said court shall proceed to hear and determine the matter in like manner as herein before provided. When trans- If, during the pendency of any criminal case against any ferred from police court. Proceedings of juvenile court upon transfer. child in any police or justice court of this State, it shall be ascertained that said child is under the age of seventeen years, it shall be the duty of the police magistrate or justice of the peace before whom such case is pending, to immediately transfer such case, together with all papers connected therewith to the juvenile court, except in cases where the child is over fourteen years of age and is charged with a felony. Upon such transfer the juvenile court may proceed to hear and dispose of the case in the same manner as if said child had been brought before the court upon petition. as herein before provided, and the court shall require an investigation to be made as in other cases under this act. State Pub SEC. 7. When any child under the age of seventeen years When not shall be found to be a dependent or neglected child within admissible to the meaning of this act, and not admissible to the State lic School. Public School under the laws for the government, management and control of said school, the court may make an order committing the child to the care of some suitable State institution subject to the law and regulations governing such institution, or to the care of some reputable citizen of good moral character, or in the care of some training school, or industrial school as such provided by law, to the care of some association willing to receive it, embracing in its objects the purpose of caring for or obtaining homes for dependent or neglected children, which association shall have been approved by the State Board of Corrections and Charities: Provided, That if any such child is admissible to the State Proviso, when Public School under the laws of this State, the court shall State Public make an order committing said child to said State Public School. School. The court shall, when the health or condition of When and by the child shall require, cause the child to be placed may be in a public hospital or in an institution for treatment or hospital. special care, or in a private hospital or institution, for special care or treatment, the expense to be paid from the general fund of the county of which the child is a resident. admissible to whom child placed in 12 not to be jail. 17 not to be SEC. 8. No child under the age of twelve years shall be Child under committed to any jail or police station, but may be com- committed to mitted to the care or custody of the county agent or other suitable person or duly appointed probation officer who shall keep such child in some suitable place provided by the city or county outside of the enclosure of any jail or police station. No child under seventeen years of age while under ar- Child under rest, confinement, or conviction for any crime, shall be placed confined with in any apartment or cell of any prison or place of confine- adults. ment with any adult who shall be under arrest, confinement, or conviction of any crime, or be permitted to remain in any court room during the trial of adults, or be transported in any vehicle of transportation in company with adults charged with or convicted of crime: Provided, That this shall not Proviso. be construed as repealing act number one hundred and ten of the public acts of nineteen hundred one. parents to dren, pro SEC. 9. In any case in which the court shall find a child Ability of neglected, dependent or delinquent, it may in the same or support negsubsequent proceedings, upon the parents of said child or lected chileither of them being duly summoned or voluntarily appear- ceedings. ing, proceed to inquire into the ability of such parent or parents to support the child or contribute to his support, and if the court shall find such parent or parents able to support or contribute thereto, the court may enter such order or decree as shall be according to equity in the premises. SEC. 10. The judges of probate shall receive for their compensation services under this act in addition to their regular salary the to judges of sum of one hundred dollars for each fifteen thousand inhabitants or fraction thereof in their respective counties, probate. Proviso as to counties having juvenile courts. When chil dren to be in care of county agent, etc. how paid. which shall be paid from the same fund and in the same manner as their regular salaries are now paid: Provided, That in counties having cities in which municipal juvenile courts are established, the population of said cities shall be deducted in computing the amount of salary of the probate judge for said county. SEC. 11. All children while under orders of the court shall be in the care and custody of the county agent or probation officer or such other person as the court may desigExpenses of, nate and all necessary expenses incurred for the proper care and maintenance of said children while in such custody shall be paid by the county treasurer on the order of the court. SEC. 12. Children intended by this act shall not be indenfore children tured, apprenticed or otherwise disposed of, until the person applying for any such child shall have been approved in writing by the county agent of the county in which such person resides. Approval necessary be indentured, etc. Vacancy in bate judge, SEC. 13. In case of the absence or disability of the prooffice of pro- bate judge, the provisions of the general law as to filling such temporary vacancies shall apply in all proceedings under this act. how filled. Acts repealed. Proviso as to proceedings pending. SEC. 14. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed: Provided, That this act shall not affect any proceeding or proceedings pending at the time this act takes effect. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 326.] AN ACT to amend sections twenty-four, twenty-nine and - thirty of act number two hundred six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act number two hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," said sections being compiler's section number three thousand eight hundred forty-seven, as amended by act number two hundred sixty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninetynine, section three thousand eight hundred fifty-two and section three thousand eight hundred fifty-three of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections twenty-four, twenty-nine and thirty Sections of act number two hundred six of the public acts of eighteen amended. hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of lands bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased, and to repeal act number two hundred of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," said sections being compiler's section number three thousand eight hundred fortyseven, as amended by act number two hundred sixty-two of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, section three thousand eight hundred fifty-two and section three thousand eight hundred fifty-three of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are amended to read as follows: roll, how, by etc. SEC. 24. On or before the first Monday in June in each Assessment year, the supervisor or assessor shall make and complete whom made, an assessment roll, upon which he shall set down the name of every person liable to be taxed in his township or assessment district, with a full description of all the real property therein liable to be taxed. If the name of the owner or occupant of any such tract or parcel of real property is |