2879 00. Repealing clause. 26. The following statutes are hereby repealed: "An act to establish a home for the maintenance of sick and disabled Indiana soldiers and seamen, and their orphans and widows," approved March 11, 1867; also, "An act to amend sections four, thirteen and fifteen of an act entitled 'An act to establish a home for the maintenance of sick and disabled Indiana soldiers and seamen, and their orphans and widows,' approved March 11, 1867, and supplementary to said act," approved May 14, 1869; also, "An act to provide for the organization and support of an asylum for feeble minded children; to provide for the appointment, by the Governor, of a board of trustees of the 'Soldiers' Orphan Home,' and for said asylum, and to abolish the office of trustees of the 'Soldiers' Orphan Home,' and to repeal an act on the same subject, approved March 7, 1879, and declaring an emergency," approved March 15, 1879; also, "An act to amend sections 1 and 4 of an act entitled 'An act to provide for the organization and support of an asylum for feeble minded children; to provide for the appointment by the governor of a board of trustees of the Soldiers' Orphan Home, and for said asylum, and to abolish the office of trustee of 'Soldiers' Orphan Home,' and to repeal the act on the same subject, approved March 7, 1879, and declaring an emergency,' approved March 15, 1879 (the sections amended being sections 2811 and 2814 of Revised Statutes of 1881), and declaring an emergency," which act took effect by lapse of time, without the Governor's approval, February 27, 1883; also, "An act to amend section one of an act entitled 'An act to amend sections one and four of an act entitled 'An act to provide for the organization and support of an asylum for the feeble minded children; to provide for the appointment, by the Governor, of a board of trustees of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, and for said asylum, and to abolish the office of trustee of Soldiers' Orphans' Home, and to repeal the act on the same subject, approved March 7, 1879, and declaring an emergency,' approved March 15, 1879, the sections amended being. sections 2811 and 2814 of the Revised Statutes of 1881, and declaring an emergency,' which took effect by lapse of time, without the Governor's approval, February 27, 1883, providing for the separation of the soldiers' orphans and feeble minded children, repealing all laws in conflict herewith and declaring an emergency," approved March 26, 1885.

[1889 S., p. 261. In force March 9, 1889.]

2879pp. Township board - Appointment - Terms of office. 1. In all counties of this State which have a population of more than fifty thousand inhabitants, as shown by the United States census for the year 1890, there shall be created a board composed of six persons, three of whom shall be women, which Board shall be a body politic and corporate, known as the Board of Children's Guardians of

County, and in such name may sue and be sued. The members

of such Board shall be appointed by the Circuit Court of such county, and shall serve without compensation. Two members of such Board shall serve one year, when their successors shall be appointed, who shall serve three years. Two members shall serve two years, when their successors shall be appointed, who shall serve three years. Two members shall serve three years, when their successors shall be appointed, who shall serve three years; and annually thereafter there shall be appointed two members of such Board, who shall serve three years: Provided, That in case of a vacancy occurring in said Board from any cause, the said Circuit Court shall fill such vacancy by appointment for the unexpired term. [As amended, 1893 S., p. 282. In force March 3, 1893.

2879qq. Duties and powers - Children's home-Orphan asylum, etc.- Apprenticeship. 2. Said board shall have the care and supervision of neglected and dependent children under fifteen years of age in the township for which they are appointed, and shall have the power to take under their control, in the manner hereinafter specified, any children abandoned, neglected or cruelly treated by their parents; children begging on the streets; children of habitually drunken or vicious and unfit parents; children kept in vicious or immoral association; children known by their language and life to be vicious or incorrigible; juvenile delinquents and truants. Said board shall provide a temporary home, where such children as may be committed to their care [may] be suitable [y] and comfortable [y] maintained and educated, especial attention being given to their moral training. They shall have power, by leave of the circuit court of the county in which such township is located, to commit such children to orphan asylums, the House of Refuge or Indiana Reformatory for Women and Girls, or, under the order of the court, said children may be indentured as apprentices or be adopted, without the consent of the parents of said child, by the consent of said board filed in the circuit court; or such children may be in any manner disposed of by said board as the circuit court, upon written petition, shall direct: Provided, that in committing children to the Reform School for boys the court shall be governed by the law regulating commitments to that institution in every particular, and that law shall not be deemed to be repealed in any part by this act.

2879rr. Custody, acquisition of- Notice Judgment- Appeal. 3. Whenever said board shall have probable cause to believe that any child under fifteen years of age is abandoned, neglected or cruelly treated by its parent or parents, or its custodians, or is habitually sent out or permitted to beg upon the streets, or is an habitual truant from school, in idle and vicious association, or that the parent of any child is in constant habits of drunkenness and blasphemy, or of low and gross debauchery, or that the associations of such child are such as tend to its corruption or contamination, or that such child is known by language and life to be vicious or incorrigible, such board shall file a petition in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county setting forth such facts in regard to such child, and thereupon the clerk shall issue a writ for the custody of such child, which shall be served upon the parent or person having actual custody or control of said child, or if such child is under no actual parental custody or control, then upon the child itself, and thereupon said board shall take and keep said

child at the temporary home of said board until the final order of the circuit court or judge thereof, sitting in vacation, upon said petition; such petition shall be heard by the circuit court, or by the judge thereof in vacation, and notice of the time of hearing upon said petition shall be served upon the parent or person having the actual custody or control of said child, who shall have the right to call witnesses and be heard as to his or her right, fitness and ability to care for and educate such child. If the facts set forth in said petition shall be found by the court or judge thereof, sitting in vacation, to be true, and that any of the above causes exist, said court or judge shall order that said child be committed to the custody of said board of children's guardians. An appeal from the decision of the circuit court and the judge thereof, sitting in vacation, may be taken to the supreme court as in civil causes, but such appeal shall not stay the order of said court as to the custody of said child, which shall remain in the custody of said board until such appeal shall be finally disposed of; and, all children committed to the custody and control of said board of children's guardians shall be under the supervision and control of such board in the manner provided in this act until such children shall become of age. [As amended, 1891 S., p. 366. In force March 9, 1891.

2879ss. Costs, none taxed against board — County pay. 4. That in all cases in which such board of children's guardians is interested, and for the filing of petitions, reports or proceedings for adopting wards of such board no fees shall be taxed against said board by the clerk of the circuit court or the sheriff of such county, and said board of children's guardians shall not be liable for the payment of any court costs of witness fees; but, all such costs incurred by such board shall be paid by the county wherein said board shall be created, on the order of the circuit court of such county.

2879tt. Removal, power of. 5. The circuit court of the county shall have power to remove any or all of said members of said board of children's guardians for any misconduct or neglect of duty, upon a proper showing, made in open court, after said member or members. shall have been given full opportunity to be heard in their defense.

[1891 S., p. 366. In force March 9, 1891.]

2879uu. Homes, county furnish Matron - Children's maintenance. 3. In all cases where there is no children's home in the county or township in which such board shall be appointed, the board of county commissioners shall provide, either by purchase or lease, a house of suitable size and convenience for the accommodation of the children placed under the custody and control of such board; shall pay a matron, to be appointed by said board of children's guardians, and shall pay thirty cents per day for each child under the care of such board of children's guardians kept in said house, or maintained outside of said house.

[1889 S., p. 51. In force February 28, 1889.]

2879vv. Board of state charities created-Appointment Term-President. 1. The governor shall appoint six persons, three from each of the two leading political parties which cast the highest number of votes at the last general election, who shall constitute a board of state charities, to serve without compensation; two of whom, as indi

cated by the governor upon the fixed appointment, shall serve for one year, two for two years, and two for three years; and upon the expiration of the terms of each, his or her place and that of his or her successor shall, in like manner, be filled for the term of three years. The governor shall be ex officio a member of said board and the president thereof. Appointments to fill vacancies caused by death, resignation or removal, before the expiration of such terms may be made for the residue of terms in the same manner as original appointments.

2879ww. Duties - Oaths-Meetings-Rules-Improvements - Investigations - Reports. 2. That the board of state charities shall be provided with a suitable room in the state house. Regular meetings of the board shall be held quarterly, or oftener if required. They may make such rules and orders for the regulation of their own proceedings as they may deem necessary. They shall investigate the whole system of public charities and correctional institutions of the state, examine into the condition and management thereof, especially of prisons, jails, infirmaries, public hospitals and asylums; and the officers in charge of all such institutions shall furnish to the board, on their request, such information and statistics as they may require; and, to secure accuracy, uniformity and completeness in such statistics, the board may prescribe such forms of report and registration as they may deem essential; and all plans for new jails and infirmaries shall, before the adoption of the same by the county authorities, be submitted to said board for suggestion and criticism. The board, in its discretion, may at any time make an investigation, by the whole board or by a committee of its members, of the management of any penal, reformatory, or charitable institution of the state; and said board or committee, in making any such investigation, shall have power to send for persons and papers, and to administer oaths and affirmations; and the report of such investigation, with the testimony, shall be made to the governor, and shall be submitted by him, with his suggestions, to the general assembly. 2879xx. Secretary Salary. 3. That the said board may appoint a secretary, who shall be paid for his services, in addition to his traveling expenses, an annual salary as may be agreed upon by the board. All accounts and expenditures shall be certified as may be provided by the board, and shall be paid by the treasurer upon an order from the auditor of state.

2879yy. Report, annual. 4. The board of state charities shall, annually, prepare and print for the use of the legislature a full and complete report of all their doings during the preceding year, stating fully and in detail all expenses incurred, all officers and agents employed, with a report of the secretary, embracing all the respective proceedings. and expenses during the year, and showing the actual condition of all the state institutions under their control, with such suggestions as they may deem necessary and pertinent.

2879zz. Appropriation, annual. 5. The sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000) is hereby annually appropriated out of any funds not otherwise appropriated for the payment of all expenses made necessary by this act.

2879aaa. Emergency. 6. Whereas, there is an emergency for the taking effect of this act; therefore, the same shall be in force from and after its passage.

[1889 S., p. 10. In force February 11, 1889.]

2879bbb. Jurisdiction ceded-Right reserved - Inmates' right of suffrage. 1. Jurisdiction of the lands and their appurtenances which may be acquired, by purchase or donation, by the managers of "The National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers," within the county of Grant and state of Indiana, for the uses and purposes of said branch home, be and is hereby ceded to the United States of America: Provided, however, that all civil and criminal process issued under the authority of the state of Indiana, or any officer thereof, may be executed on said lands and in the buildings which may be erected and located thereon in the same way or manner as if jurisdiction had not been ceded as aforesaid: And provided, further, that nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent the officers, employes and inmates of said branch home, who are qualified voters of this state from exercising the right of suffrage at all township, county and state elections in the township in which said branch home shall be located.

2879ccc. Exemption from taxation. 2. That the lands SO acquired by the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, with their appurtenances, and all buildings which may be erected thereon, and all the personalty of every kind, now held, or which may hereafter be held, by the board of managers aforesaid, for the uses and purposes of said branch home, shall forever hereafter be exempted from all state, county and municipal taxation and assessment whatever, so long as the same shall remain the property of the United States for the uses and purposes of the said branch home.

2879ddd. Emergency. 3. An emergency existing for the immediate taking effect of this act, the same shall be in force from and after its passage.

[1901 S., p. 369. Approved March 11, 1901.]

2879eee. Boards of children's guardians. 1. That in each county of this State there may be created a board composed of six persons, three of whom shall be women, and every member of which shall be a parent, which board shall be a body politic and corporate known as the Board of Children's Guardians of County, and in such

name may sue and be sued. The members of such board shall be appointed by the Circuit Court of such county, and shall serve without compensation. Two members of such board shall serve one year when their successors shall be appointed who shall serve three years. Two members shall serve two years when their successors shall be appointed who shall serve three years. Two members shall serve three years when their successors shall be appointed who shall serve three years. And annually thereafter there shall be appointed two members of such board who shall serve three years: Provided, That, in case of a vacancy occurring in said board from any cause the said Circuit Court shall fill such vacancy by appointment for the unexpired time. 2879fff. Care of children. 2. Said board shall have the care and supervision of neglected and dependent children under fifteen years of age domiciled and resident in the county for which it is created and shall have the power