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§ 2104. NEGLECTED AND DELINQUENT CHILDREN. Tit. IX, Ch. 13.
8 of their duties. Said chief probation officer shall receive a salary
9 not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars per annum ; the deputy probation
10 officers a salary not to exceed twelve hundred dollars per annum, said
11 salaries to be fixed by the judge of the juvenile court and to be paid
12 out of the county treasury ; provided, that in counties having a popu-
13 lation of one hundred twenty-five thousand or over, the judge of the
14 juvenile court shall have power to select a chief probation officer and
15 not exceeding five deputy probation officers, the chief probation officer
16 to receive a salary of not to exceed three thousand dollars and the
17 deputy probation officers each to receive a salary not to exceed eighteen
18 hundred dollars.
[37 G. A., ch. 405, § 2; 39 G. A., ch. 156, § 1.]
SEC. 2104. Commitment—financial aid for widowed mother.
1 When any child of the age stated in section twenty hundred
2 eighty-nine of the compiled code shall be found to be dependent or
3 neglected, within the meaning of this chapter, the court may make
4 an order committing the child to the care of some suitable state insti-
5 tution, or to the care of some reputable citizen of good moral character,
6 or to the care of some training school, as provided by law, or to the
7 care of some association willing to receive it, embracing in its objects
8 the purpose of caring for and obtaining homes for dependent and
9 neglected children, which association shall have been accredited as
10 hereinafter provided.
11 If the court finds that the mother of such dependent or neglected
12 child is a widow and a resident of the county where aid is applied for,
13 and if the court further finds that such mother is poor and unable to
14 properly care for said child, but is otherwise a proper guardian, and
15 that it is for the welfare of such child to remain at home, the court
16 may enter an order finding such fact and fixing an amount of money
17 necessary to enable such mother to properly care for such child ; and
18 thereupon it shall be the duty of the county board of supervisors,
19 through its overseer of the poor or otherwise, to pay to such mother,
20 at such times as said order may designate, the amount so specified
21 for the care K)f such dependent or neglected child until further order
22 of the court. The amount to be paid for the care of any such child
23 shall not exceed the sum of three dollars per week. Such payment
24 shall cease upon any such child's attaining the age of sixteen years.
25 At any time after such allowance is made the overseer of the poor,
26 or the board of supervisors, may make objections to the continuance
27 of such allowance. When such objection is made the court or judge
28 thereof shall fix a time for hearing and order that notice be given to
29 the person receiving the allowance and at the time fixed the court or
30 judge shall summarily hear and determine the objections made, and
31 may revoke or modify the order for allowance theretofore made and
32 make such further order as shall be just and proper in the premises.
33 The court may, when the health or condition of the child may
34 require it, cause the child to be placed in a public hospital or institu-
35 tion for treatment or special care, or in a private hospital or institu-
36 tion which will receive it for like purposes without charge.
37 No child under the age of ten years shall be committed to the
38 training school for boys or the training school for girls ; but such chil-
39 dren shall be eligible to admission to the soldiers' orphans' home at