this act, and from judgment of such judge in such prosecutions error may be prosecuted to the circuit court of the county under laws governing prosecutions of proceedings in error in other criminal cases to such circuit court. SECTION 29. The disposition of or any order, judgment, or finding against any child under this act, or any evidence given in any proceeding under this act, shall not in any civil, criminal or other cause or proceeding whatever in any court, be lawful or proper evidence against such child for any purpose whatever, except in subsequent cases against the same child under this act. Findings, not dence. lawful evi Detention Home, how established and conducted. SECTION 30. The county commissioners may, upon the advice and recommendation of the judge exercising the jurisdiction provided for in this act, provide by purchase or lease, a place to be known as a "detention home" within a convenient distance of the court house, not used for the confinement of adult persons charged with criminal offenses, where delinquent, dependent or neglected minors under the age of seventeen years may be detained until final disposition, which place shall be maintained by the county as in other like cases; and in counties having a population in excess of forty thousand, such judge may appoint a superintendent and inatron who shall have charge of such home, and of the delinquent, dependent and neglected minors detained therein. Such superintendent and matron shall be suitable and discreet persons, qualified as teachers of children. Such home shall be furnished in a-comfortable manner as nearly as may be as a family home. The compensation of such superintendent and matron shall be fixed by the county commissioners. Such compensation and the expense of maintaining such home shall be paid out of the county treasury upon the warrant of the county auditor, which shall be issued upon the itemized voucher, sworn to by the superintendent and certified by the judge. When such detention home is provided for by the county commissioners, and upon such home being recommended by the judge the commissioners shall enter an order on their journal transferring Journal entry. to the proper fund from any other fund or funds of the county, in their discretion such sums as may be necessary to purchase or lease said home and properly furnish and conduct the same and pay the compensation of the superintendent and matron. Said commissioners shall likewise upon the appointment of probation officers as provided in this act transfer to the proper fund from any other fund or funds of the county, in their discretion, such sums as may be necessary to pay such probation officers as provided for herein, such transfers to be made upon the authority of this act alone. At the next tax levying period provisions shall Tax levy. be made for the expenses of the court as herein provided. SECTION 31. In any case where the court shall award a child to the care of any association or individual in accordance with the provisions of this act, the child shall, unless otherwise ordered, become a ward, and be subject to a ward, when. Child becomes Agreement with incorporated institutions valid. Agent of certain institutions, duties of. the guardianship of the association or individual to whose care it is committed. Such association or individual shall have authority to place such child in a family home, with or without indenture, and shall be made party to any proceedings for the legal adoption of the child, and may appear in any court where such proceedings are pending, and assent to such adoption. And such assent shall be sufficient to authorize the judge to enter the proper order or decree of adoption. Such guardianship shall not include the guardianship of any estate of the child. SECTION 32. It shall be lawful for the parents, parent, guardian or other person or persons having the right to dispose of a dependent or neglected child to enter into an agreement with any association or institution incorporated under any law of this state, which shall have been approved as herein provided, for the purpose of aiding, caring for or placing in homes such children, or for the surrender of such child to such association or institution, to be taken and cared for by such association or institution, or put into a family home. Such agreement may contain any and all proper stipulations to that end, and may authorize the association or institution, to appear in any proceeding for the legal adoption of such child, and consent to its adoption, and the orde of the judge made upon such consent shall be binding upon the child and its parents, guardian or other person, as if such person were personally in court and consented thereto, whether made party to the proceeding or not. SECTION 33. It shall be the cuty of the board of trustees of the boys' industrial school at Lancaster, and of the girls' industrial home at Delaware, and the board of managers of any other institution to which juvenile delinquents may be committed to maintain an agent of such institution, whose duty it shall be to examine the home of children paroled from such institution for the purpose of ascertaining and reporting to said board of trustees whether they are suitable homes; to assist children paroled or discharged from such institution in finding suitable employment, and to maintain a friendly supervision over paroled inmates during the continuance of their parole; such agents shall hold office subject to the pleasure of the board making the apCompensation pointment and shall receive such compensation as such. board may determine out of any funds appropriated for such institution applicable thereto. of agent. Board of state charities, duties of. SECTION 34. All associations receiving children under this act shall be subject to the same visitation, inspection and supervision by the board of state charities as are the public charitable institutions of this state, and it shall be the duty of the said board to pass annually upon the fitness of every such association as may receive, or desire to receive, children under the provision of this act, and every such as-sociation shall annually, at such time as said board shall direct make report thereto, showing its condition, manage ment and competency adequately to care for such children as are, or may be committed to it, and such other facts as said board may require, and when said board is satisfied as to the care given such children, it shall issue to the association a certificate to that effect, which certificate shall continue in force for one year unless sooner revoked by said board, and no child shall be committed to any association which shall not have received such certificate within fifteen months next preceding the commitment. The judge may, at any time, require from any association receiving or desiring to receive children under the provisions of this act, such reports, information and statements as the judge may deem proper and necessary; and such judge may at any time require from any association or institution reports, information or statements concerning any child or children committed to it by such judge under the provisions of this act. Certificate of charities. board of state Articles of inbe approved by board of ties. corporation, to state chari SECTION 35. No association whose objects may embrace the care of dependent, neglected or delinquent children shall hereafter be incorporated unless the proposed articles of incorporation shall first have been submitted to the board of state charities, and the secretary of state shall not issue a certificate of incorporation unless there shall first be filed in his office the certificate of the secretary of the board of state charities that he has examined the said articles of incorporation, and, in his judgment, the incorporators are reputable and respectable persons, that the proposed work is needed and the incorporation of such association is desirable and for the public good. Amendments Amendproposed to the articles of incorporation of any such association shall be submitted in like manner to the board of state charities, and the secretary of state shall not record such amendment or issue his certificate therefor unless there shall first be filed in his office the certificate of the secretary of the board of state charities that he has examined the said amendment, that the association in question is, in his judgment, performing in good faith the work undertaken by it, and that the said amendment is, in his judgment, a proper one, and for the public good. SECTION 36. No association, which is incorporated under the laws of any other state, shall place any child in any family home within the boundaries of the state of Ohio, either with or without indenture or for adoption, unless the said association shall have furnished the state board of charities with such guaranty as it may require that no child having any contagious disease, or any deformity, or of feeble mind or of vicious character, shall be brought into the state of Ohio by such association or its agents, and that said association will promptly receive and remove from the state any child brought into the state of Ohio by its agents, which shall become a public charge within the period of five years, after being brought into this state. Any person ments. Associations regulated. of other states Penalty. Religious belief. Felony. Act to be liberally construed. Fees and costs, how paid. who shall receive to be placed in a home, or shall place in a home, any child in behalf of any association incorporated in any other state which shall not have complied with the requirements of this act, shall be imprisoned in the county jail not more than thirty days, or fined not less than five dollars or more than one hundred dollars, or both, in the discretion of the judge. SECTION 37. The judge in committing children shall place them, so far as practicable, in the care and custody of some individual holding the same religious belief as said child or its parents, or with some association which is controlled by persons of like religious faith as such child or its parents. SECTION 38. Nothing in this act shall be construed to repeal any portion of the acts relating to the boys' industrial school at Lancaster or the girls' industrial home at Dela ware. SECTION 39. When any information or complaint shall be filed against any delinquent child under the provisions of this act, charging such delinquent child with a felony, the judge may order such delinquent child to enter into a recognizance, with good and sufficient surety, in such amount as he may deem reasonable, for his appearance before the court of common pleas at the next term of said court; and the same proceedings shall be had thereafter upon such complaint as are now authorized by law for the indictment, trial, judgment and sentence of any other person charged with a felony. SECTION 40. This act shall be liberally construed to the end that its purpose may be carried out, to-wit: That proper guardianship may be provided for in order that the child may be educated and cared for, as far as practicable in such manner as best subserves its moral and physical welfare, and as far as practicable in proper cases that the parent, parents or guardians of such child may be compelled to perform their moral and legal duty in the interest of the child. And all fees and costs in all cases coming within the provisions of this act, together with such sums as shall be necessary for the incidental expenses of such court and its officers, and together with the costs of transportation of children to places to which they may be committed, shall be paid out of the county treasury of the county upon itemized vouchers and certified to by the judge of the court. SECTION 41. That the act entitled, "An act to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children," passed April 25, 1904, approved May 5, 1904 (97 Ohio L., 561), and the act amendatory and supplemental thereto, passed April 2, 1906, entitled, “An act to amend sections 1, 6, 7 and 10 of an act entitled 'An act to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children," passed April 25, 1904, and to supplement said act with supplemental sections 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 (98 Ohio L., 314), be and the same To amend section 3922 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, in relation to the suspension of schools in subdistricts, and conveyance of pupils to other districts. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: SECTION I. That section 3922 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, in relation to the suspension of schools in subdistricts, and conveyance of pupils to other districts, be amended so as to read as follows: Suspension of schools in subdistricts; pupils. conveyance of Sec. 3922. The board of education of any township school district is authorized to suspend the schools in any or all subdistricts in the township district, but upon such suspension the board must provide for the conveyance of the pupils residing in such subdistrict or subdistricts to a public school in said township district, or to a public school in another district, the cost of such conveyance to be paid out of the funds of the township school district; or the board may abolish all the subdistricts providing conveyance is furnished to one or more central schools, the expense of such conveyance to be paid out of the funds of the district, but no sub-district school where the average daily attend- Average daily ance is twelve or more, shall be so suspended or abolished under the provisions of this section, after a vote has been taken under the provisions of section 3927-2 of the Revised Statutes, when at said election a majority of the votes cast thereon were against the proposition of centralization, or when a petition has been filed thereunder and has not yet been voted upon at an election. attendance. 60 days' notice required. No township schools shall be centralized under this Centralization. section by the board of education of the township until after sixty days' notice has been given by the board, said notices to be posted in a conspicuous place in each sub-district of the township. When transportation of pupils is provided for, the conveyance must pass within at least the distance of one-half of a mile from the respective residence of all pupils, except when such residences are situated more than one |