Biennial Report of the Officers of the Pennsylvania Training School

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Pennsylvania Training School Print, 1906 - Reformatories

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Page 72 - ... child to the care and guardianship of a probation officer duly appointed by the court, and may allow said child to remain in its own home subject to the visitation of the probation officer, such child to report to the probation officer as often as may be required, and subject to be returned to the court for further proceedings whenever such action may appear to be necessary...
Page 71 - ... officer and the further order of the court ; or it may authorize the child to be boarded out in some suitable family home, in case provision is made by voluntary contribution or otherwise for the...
Page 69 - An act defining the powers of the several courts of Quarter Sessions of the Peace within this Commonwealth, with reference to the care, treatment and control of dependent, neglected, incorrigible and delinquent children under the age of sixteen years, and providing for the means in which such power may be exercised...
Page 72 - ... of persons having the same religious belief as the parents of the child, or with some association which is controlled by persons of such religious belief, and shall...
Page 71 - ... for the legal adoption of the child and may by its or his attorney or agent appear in any court where such proceedings are pending, and assent to such adoption. And such assent shall be sufficient to authorize the court to enter the proper order or decree of adoption. Such guardianship shall not include the guardianship of any estate of the child.
Page 73 - That the care, custody and discipline of a child shall approximate as nearly as may be that which should be given by its parents, and in all cases where it can properly be done, the child be placed in an approved family home and become a member of the family by legal adoption or otherwise.
Page 70 - ... to the care of some suitable State institution, or to the care of some reputable citizen of good moral character, or to the care of some training school, or an industrial school, as provided by law, or to the care of some association willing to receive it...
Page 45 - ... shall be capable in law by that name and style, of purchasing, holding, and conveying any estate real or personal for the use of the said corporation.
Page 70 - ... it shall be the duty of the said probation officer to make such investigation as may be required by the court ; to be present in court in order to represent the interests of the child when the case is heard ; to furnish to the court such information and assistance as the judge may require; and to take such charge of any child before and after trial as may be directed by the court.
Page 54 - Congress, and bring suit in the Circuit Court of the United States in and for the Western District of Arkansas...

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