SUPPLEMENT TO ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ATTORNEY
GENERAL FOR THE YEAR 1914, EMBODYING FIRST REPORT
OF COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
TO STUDY NEED FOR LEGISLATION AFFECTING CHILDREN
IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, INCLUDING DRAFTS
OF NEW JUVENILE COURT LAWS

Committee to Study need
for Legislation Affecting
Childre
• in the Dist of Col

MARCH 3, 1915.-Referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,

OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL,

Washington, D. C., February 26, 1915.

The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

SIR: I have the honor to submit herewith a supplement to my

annual report to Congress for the fiscal year 1914, embodying the

first report of the committee appointed to study the need for legisla-

tion affecting children in the District of Columbia, including drafts

of new juvenile court laws.

- Very respectfully,

T. W. GREGORY,

Attorney General.

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SUPPLEMENT TO

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,

Washington, D. C., February 13, 1915.

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled:

In my annual report to you for the year 1914 I made the following statement:

"Impressed with the importance of considering the question of the amendment, revision, and codification of the laws in force in the District of Columbia pertaining to children and to the jurisdiction, practice, and procedure of the juvenile court of the District, my predecessor, on March 6, 1914, appointed a committee composed of Bernard Flexner, of Chicago, chairman; Miss Julia C. Lathrop, chief of the Children's Bureau, Department of Labor; Rev. William J. Kerby, professor of sociology, Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C.; Walter C. Clephane, Washington, D. C.; and William H. Baldwin, Washington, D. C., to study the present laws and needs of the District in this particular and to advise the Attorney General, accompanying its report with a draft of a code adequate to give the District satisfactory laws upon these subjects, and which might be used as a general model. This committee, acting without compensation, has held frequent meetings, and I am advised that its report will be ready at an early date.

"I am of the opinion that the present juvenile laws of the District of Columbia are antiquated. Copies of the report of the committee and of the proposed revision of the juvenile code will be transmitted to Congress with the hope that they may have your very earnest consideration."

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