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TABLE 0 F ACTS PAGE Juvenile Court ................................................... 12 Expenses Incurred by Probation Oflicers ......................... 17 Violation of Parole .............................................. 19 Confinement and Trial ............................................ 20 Confinement of Children Awaiting Trial .......................... 20 House of Detention ............................................... 21 Commitment of Children ......................................... 23 Children Convicted in U. S. Courts ................................. 23' Jurisdiction of Courts ............................................ 24 (House of Refuge ................................................. 24 House of Refuge of Western Pennsylvania ........................ 25 Commitment of Boys to Protectory ................................ 26- Huntingdon Reformatory ......................................... 27‘ Thaddeus Stevens’ Industrial School .............................. 28 Eastern Pennsylvania Institute for Feeble-minded ................. 28 Western Pennsylvania Institute for Feeble-minded ................. 29 County Schools for Boys .......................................... 3 Home for Deaf Children ........................................... 30 Girard College .................................................... 31 Certain Children’s Homes ........................................ 32 Appropriations to Houses of Refuge ............................... 32 Control of Minor Girls ............................................. 33 Boarding Out Children by Institutions ............................. 33 Maintenance in Industrial Schools ................................. 34 Cost of Maintenance .............................................. 35 Cost of Maintenance Outside the State ............................ 35 Binding of Children by Overseers ................................. 36 Binding of Children by Institutions . . . . . . '. ..................... 3 ' Binding of Orphans by. Mother ................................... 38 Almshouses ....................................................... 38 Certain Charitable Societies ....................................... 39 Cost of Court Proceedings ......................................... 41 Boarding of Infants ............................................... 41 Boarding of Infants ............................................... 43 .............................................. 49 Mines Child Labor Act ............................................ 49 Factory Act ....................................................... 531 55qu 2 TABLE OF ACTS. PAGE General Child Labor Act ........................................... 60 Employment of Minors ........................................... 65 Compulsory Attendance at School ................................. 65 Regulation of Apprentices ........................................ 72 Protection of Apprentices ......................................... 73 Protection of Children ............................................ 73 Better Protection of Children ...................................... 78 Marriage of Minors ............................................... 79 Prostitution ..................................................... \. . 79 Prostitution ....................................................... 80 Sending to Immoral Resorts ...................................... 80 Relief of Deserted Wives and Children ............................. 81 Relief of Deserted Wives and Children .................... A ......... 82 Relief of Deserted Wives and Children ......................... '. . . . 82 Desertion of Wives and Children .................................. 84 Parents and Children ............................................. 85 Record of Adoption ............................................... 86 Adoption Into Another State ...................................... 87 Guardians Appointed by Mothers .................................. 87 Guardians Appointed by Mothers .................................. 88 Rights of Mothers ................................................. 88 Legal Status of Illegitimate Children .................... _ .......... 89 Competency of Witnesses ......................................... 89 Contagious and Infectious Diseases ................................ 91 Blindness ......................................................... 93 Pool Rooms ....................................................... 94 Tobacco .......................................................... 95 Cigarettes ........................................................ 95 Sale of Liquors ................................................... 96 Misrepresentation of Age .......................................... 97 Junk Dealers ...................................................... 97 Pawnbrokers ...................................................... 98 Itinerant Vendors ................................................. 99 Obscene Literature ................................................ 99 Enticing ......................................................... . 100 Seduction ......................................................... 101 Rape ............................................................. . 102 Kidnapping ....................................................... 102 Trafficking in Children ........................................... 103 Index ........................................................... 105 /’ /’ ‘._«m,-_-_‘/-\.fl.—_«.-\p,. fl" VMWNJ ACTS OF ASSEMBLY IN PENNSYLVANIA RELATING. TO CHILDREN THE FIRST JUVENILE COURT ACT - (Declmed unconstitutional in Mansfields Case 22 Pa. Sup Ct. 224. ) ACT 2m MAY, 1901 (P. L. 279)." AN ACT To regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglectedand delinquent children, under the age of sixteen years; providingjor the establishment of juvenile courts; regulating the practice before , such courts; providing for the appointment of probation oflicers; prohibiting the commitment to jail or police station of a child under fourteen years of age; providing for the appointment,‘ compensation and duties of agents of juvenile reformatories; imposing certain duties upon the Board of Public Charities of this State; regulating the incorporation of associations for the care of dependent, neglected or delinquent children; prohibiting foreign associations from placing 'children in homes in this State for adoption, or under indenture, except under certain conditions; providing for the appointment of a board of visitors, and repealing acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act. Section 1.: Be it enacted, etc., That this act shall apply only to children under the age of sixteen years, not now or hereafter inmates of a State institution or any training school for boys or industrial school for girls, or some institution incor- poratedunder the laws of this State, except as provided in sections twelve (12) and eighteen (18). For the purpose of this act the words “dependent child” and “neglected child” shall mean any child who, for any re-,ason is destitute or home- less, or abandoned, or dependent upon the public for support, or has not the proper parental caie or Guardianship, or who habitually begs or receives alms, 01 who is. found living in any house 0fi‘ll. fame or with any vicious orl disreputable person; or 3 Application of act. “Dependent child” and “neglected child” defined. “Delinquent child." “Association.” Jurisdiction of courts. Jury. ‘ A judge to be designated to hear juvenile cases. Special court room, etc. Juvenile court. P roviso. Jurors. P rov i so. Riot and conspiracy. 4 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. whose home, by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity on the part of its parents, guardian or other person in whose care it may be, is an unfit place for such a child ; and any child under the age of eight years, who is found peddling or selling any article, or singing, or playing any musical instrument upon the street, or giving any public entertainment. The words “delin- quent child” shall include any child, under the age of sixteen years, who violates any law of this State or any city or borough ordinance. The word “child” or “children” may mean one or more children, and the word “parent” or “parents” may be held to mean one or both parents-when consistent with the intent of this act. The word “association” shall include any corporation which includes in its purposes the care or disposi— tion of children, coming within the meaning of this act. Section 2. The courts of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery and the courts of quarter sessions of the peace of the several - counties in this State shall have original jurisdiction in all cases coming within the terms of this act. In all trials under this act any person interested therein may demand a jury of twelve (12) men, or the judge, of his own motion, may order a jury of the same number to try the case. Section 3. The judges of the courts of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery and the courts of quarter sessions of the peace of the several judicial districts of this State shall, at such times as they shall determine, designate one or more of their number,>whose duty it shall be to hear all cases com— ing under this act. A special court room, to be designated as the juvenile court room, shall be provided for the hearing of such cases; and the findings of the court shall be entered in a book or books to be kept for that purpose and known as the “juvenile recorc,” and the court may for convenience be called the juvenile court: Provided, however, That all jurors required for the trial of cases in said juvenile courts shall be drawn from the panel or panels summoned for duty in the courts of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery and quarter sessions of the peace: And provided, further, That in all cases of riot, conspiracy, and the like, Where two or more persons are charged with the commission of the joint offense, and one or more of the persons so charged shall be under the age of sixteen years, it shall not be necessary to hold the trial of such case or cases in the said juvenile court, but the trial of such offenders shall be conducted as hereto- fore, anything in this act to the contrary notwithstanding. al»..J’\ ‘ ifmwmow- «.4»... 'RELATING TO CHILDREN. 5 Section 4. Any reputable person being a resident in the county, having knowledge of a child in his county who appears either to be neglected, dependent or delinquent, may file with the clerk of the court having jurisdiction in the matter a peti- tion in writing, setting forth the facts, verified by affidavit. It shall be sufficient that the affidavit is upon information and belief. . Section 5. Upon the filing of petition, a summons shall issue, requiring the person having custody or control of the child, or with whom the child may be, to appear with the child at a place and time stated in the summons, which time shall not. be less than twenty—four hours after service- The parents of the child, if living, and their residence is known, or its legal guardian, if one there be, or if there is neither parent or guardian, or if his or her residence is not known, then some relative, if there be one, and his residence is known, shall be notified of the proceedings; and in any case the judge may appoint some suitable person or association to act in behalf of the child. If the person summoned as herein provided shall fail, without reasonable cause, to appear and abide the order of the court, or to bring the child, he may be proceeded against as in case of contempt of court. In case the summons cannot ' be served, or the parties served fail to obey the same, and in any case when it shall be made to appear to the court that such summons will be ineffectual, a warrant may issue, on the order of the court, either against the parent or guardian, or the person having custody of the child, or with whom the child may be, or against the child itself. On the return of the summons or other process, or as soon thereafter as may be, the court shall proceed to hear and dispose of the case in a summary manner. Pending the final disposition of any case. the child may be retained in the possession of the person hav- ing the charge of same, or may be kept in some suitable place provided by the city or county authorities, or by any associa« tion having for one of its objects the care of delinquent or neglected children. Section 6. The court shall appoint or designate one or more discreet persons, of gored character, to serve as proba- tion officers during the pleasure of the court; said probation offi- cers to receive no compensation from the public treasury. In case a probation officer shall be appointed by any court, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court, if practicable, to notify the said probation officer in advance when any child Petition to be filed with clerk. Summons. Notice of pro- eeeding‘s. Contempt of court. Warrants. Hearing. Probation officers. Duties of. Commitment of child. “ i " Wards. Adoption. Guardianship not of the estate. Care of the child. G ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. is to be brought before the said court; 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 order to rep- resent 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. Section 7. When any child under the age of sixteen years shall be found to be dependent. or neglected, within the mean— ing of this act, the court may make an order committing the child to the care of some suitable institution, or to the care of some reputable citizen of good .moral character, or to the care of some training scho'ol, or an industrial school as provided by law, or to the care of some association willing to receive it, embracing in its object the purpose of caring or obtaining homes for dependent or neglected children, which association shall have been accredited as hereinafter provided, and the court may compel the parent .to contribute to the sup— port of the child as circumstances may determine. Section 8. 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: 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 may be made party to any proceeding for the legal adoption of the child, and may by its or his attorney er agent appear in any court where such proceedings are pending and assent to such adoption. And such assent shall be sufficient to author- ize the court to enter the proper order or decree of adoption. Such guardianship shall not include the guardianship of any estate of the child. ‘ ’ Section 9. In the case of a delinquent child, the court. may continue the hearing from time to time, and may commit the child to the care and guardianship of a probation'ofiicer duly appointed by the court, and may allow said child to remain in its own home subject to the visitation of the probation offi- cer, such child to report to- the probation oflicer as often as may be required, and subject to be return-ed to the court for further proceedings whenever such action may appear to be necessary; or the court may commit the child to the care and guardianship of the probation officer, to be placed in a RELATING TO CHILDREN. 7 i suitable family home, subject to the friendly supervision of such probation officer; or it may authorize" the said piobation office1 to board out the said child in some suitable family home, in case prOVision is made by volunta1y contribution or otherwise for the payment of the board of such cl1ild,u1'1til asuitable provision may be made for the child in a home 1VithOut such payment; 01 the court may commit the child to a suitable institution for the ca1e of delinquent children: Pro- 1a1ided, That no child under the age of twelve years shall be comniitted to the State Reformatory or House of Refuge. In no case shall a child be committed beyond his or her 11111101ity. A child committed to such institution shall be subject to the control of the board of manage1s ther,eof and the said board shall have powei to paiole such child on such condition as it may p1'1'.esc1ibe; and the court shall 011 the recommendation of the board have power to discharge such child from custody whenevei in the judgment of the court his or her ref01matio-n shall be complete, or the court may commit the child to the ca1e and custody of some association that Will receive such Child, embracing in its objects the care of neglected and depend- ent child1e11, and that has been duly acc1edited as hereinafter plovided. ‘ Section 10. Wlhen‘in any county, where a courtis held as piovided in section th1ee of this act, a delinquent child 11nde1 the age of sixteen years is ar1ested,with 01' without 111a1'1',a11t such child may, instead of being taken before a jus— tice of the peace or police magistrate, be taken di1ectly before such court; or, if the child is taken before a justice of the peace 01 police magist1ate, it shall be the duty of such jus- tice of the peace or police 111agist1'ate to transfer the case to such court, and the officer hav mg the child 1n c11a1ge to take. such child before that cour,t and in any such case the court may proceed to hem and dispose of the case in the same man- 11e1'as if the child has been brought before the co111t upon Proviso. Discharge from custody. Transfer from jus- tice or'magistrate. petition, as herein provided. In any case, the court shall ’ 1equiie notice to be given and investigation to be made, as in othe1 cases under this act, and may adjourn the hearing f1om time to time for the purpose. No court or magistrate shall commit a child under fourteen years of age to a jail or police station, but if such child is unable to give bail, it may be committed to- the ca1e of the sheriff police officer, or probation ofiicm who shall keep such child in some suitable place p1ovided bv the city or county, Under fourteen years of age. Unlawful to con- fine child with adults. Proceedings before a. magistrate or justice of the peace. Vagrant and abandoned chil- dren. State Reformatory and House of Refuge. Agents to examine paroled children. Duties of. Compensation 8 p ' ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. outside of the inclosure of any jail or police station, or in the care of any association willing to receive it, and having for one of its objects the care of neglected and dependent chil- dren. When any child shall be sentenced to confinement in any institution to which adult convicts are sentenced, it shall be unlawful to confine such child in the same building with such adult convicts, or to confine ,such child in the same yard or inclosure With such adult convicts, or to bring such child into any yard or building in which such adult convicts may be present. ‘ Section 11. All cases of misdemeanors arising under exist- ing laws fro-m neglect or ill—treatment of children, wherein the magistrates or justices of the peace have jurisdiction, the officer serving the warrant of arrest shall produce the child or children before the magistrate or justice of the peace, in [company with the accused. It shall be the duty of the magis- trate, where the charge is in his judgment made out, to trans- fer the question of the disposition of such child or children to the juvenile court, accompanied with a report of the phys— ical condition of such child when produced before him. And the said court shall proceed to hear and dispose of said cases in same manner as if the child or children had been brought before it upon petitions and summons as herein provided. And pending the disposition of such case by said court, the magistrate may commit the custody of such childor children to any association having for one of its objects the care of dependent or neglected children. This section shall likewise apply to» cases of vagrant and abandoned children. - Section 12. It shall be the duty of the board of managers of the State Reformatory, at Huntingdon, and of the board of managers of the Houses of Refuge, and the board of managers of any other institution to which juvenile delinquents may be committed by the courts, to maintain an agent of such insti— tution, whose duty it shall be to examine the homes of chil- dren paroled from such insitutio-n, for the purpose of ascer— taining and reporting to said court whether they are suitable homes, to assist children paroled or discharged from such insti- tution in finding suitable employment, and to maintain a friendly supervision over paroled inmates during the continu— ance of their parole; such agents shall hold office subject to the pleasure of the board making the appointment, and shall receive such compensation as such board may determine, out RELATING TO CHILDREN. ' 9 of any funds appropriated for such institution applicable thereto. [Section 13. All associations receiving children under this act shall be subject to the same visitation, inspection and sup-er— vision of the Board of Public Charities as the public charitable institutions of this State. The judges of the courts, herein— before mentioned, may require such information and statistics, from associations desiring to have children committed to their care under the provisions of this act, as said judges deem neces- sary in order to enable them to exercise a Wise discretion in dealing with children. Every such association shall file with the Board of Public Charities an annual written or printed report, which shall include a statement of the number of chil- dren cared for during the year, the number received, the number placed in homes, the number died, the number returned to friends; also, a financial statement, showing the receipts and disbursements of the associations. The statement of receipts shall indicate the amount received from public ‘ funds, the amount received from donations, and the amount received from other sources, specifying the several sources. The statement of disbursements shall show the amount ex-_ pended for salaries and other expenses, specifying the same; the amount expended for lands, buildings and investments. The secretary of the Board of Public Charities shall furnish to the judge of each of the county courts a list of associations filing such'annual reports, and no child shall be committed to the care' of any associations which shall not. have filed a report, for the fiscal year last preceding, with the Board of Public Charities. Section 14. No association whose objects may embrace the caring for dependent, neglected or delinquent children shall hereafter be incorporated unless the proposed articles of incor- poration shall first have been submitted to the examination of the Board of Public Charities, and unless there shall be filed, with the application for a charter, the certificate of said Board of Public Charities that said Board has examined the. said articles of incorporation, and that in its judgment the incor— porators are reputable and respectable persons, the proposed work is'needed, and the incorporation of such association is desirable and for the public good. Amendments proposed to the articles of incorporation or association, having as an object the care and disposal of dependent, neglected or delinquent children, shall be submitted in like manner to the Board of Inspection and supervision of Board of Public Charities. Annual report of associations. Statement. Secretary of Board of Public Charities to file list of associations with judges. Incorporation of associations. . Certificate of Board of Public Charities. Agreement of parent or guardian. ~L'egal adoption. Order of court. Association of other States. Guarantee to be given. Violation of act. Fine and penalty. 10 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. ‘ Public Charities, and no such amendment shall 'be allowed unless there shall be first filed with the proposed amendment the certificate of said Board of Public Charities that they have examined said amendment, that the association in ques- tion is, in their judgment, performing in good faith the work undertaken by it, and that the said amendment is, in their judgment, a proper one and for the public good. Section 15. It shall be lawful for the parents, parent, guardian, or other person having the right to dispose of a dependent or neglected child, to enter into an agreement with any association or institution, incorporated. under any public or private law of this State for the purpose of aiding, caring for or placing in homes such children, and being approved as herein provided, for the surrender of such child to such asso» ciation or institution, to be taken and cared for by such asso- ciation or institution, or put into a friendly home. Such agree- ment may contain any and all proper stipulation-s to that end, and may authorize the association or institution by its attorney or agent to appear in any proceeding for the legal adoption of such child and consent to its adoption; and the order of the court made upon such consent shall be binding upon the child and its parents or guardian or other person, the same as if such parents or guardian or other person were personally in court and consenting thereto, whether made party to the proceeding or not. ‘ ‘ Section 16. No association which is incorporated under the laws of any other State than the State of Pennsylvania shall place any child in any family home within the boundaries of the State of Pennsylvania, either with or withOut’indent-ure, or for adoption, unless the said association shall have furnished the Board of Public Charities with such guarantee as they may require that no child shall be brought into the State of Pennsylvania by such society or its agents, having any conta- gious or incurable disease, or having any deformity, or being of feeble mind or of vicious character, and that said association will promptly receive and remove from the State any child, brought into the State of Pennsylvania by its agents, which shall become a public charge within the period of five years after being brought into this State. Any person 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 than the State of Pennsylvania, Which. shall not have complied with the requirements of this act, shall be imprisoned RELATING TO CHILDREN. 11 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 court. Section 1’7. The court in committing children shall place them as far as practicable in the care and custody of some in- dividual holding the same religious belief as the parents of the said child, or with some association which is controlled by per— sons of like religious faith of the parents of the said child. Section 18. The county judge of each county shall appoint a board of six or more reputable inhabitants, who shall serve without compensation, to constitute a board of visitation, whose duty it shall be to visit, as often as once a year, all institutions, societies and associations receiving children under this act; said visits shall be made by not less than two of the members of the board, who shall go together or make a joint report. The said boardof visitors shall report to the court, from time to time, the condition of children received by or in the charge of such associations and institutions; and shall make an annual report to the Board of Public Charities, in such form as the Board may prescribe. The said board of visitors shall be entitled to receive, from the county in which they shall be appointed, such sum or sums of money, for actual and necessary expenses, as may be approved by the board of county commissioners. Section 19. This act shall be liberally construed, to the end that its purpose may be carried out, to wit: That the care, cus- tody 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. Section 20. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith or hereby supplied are repealed. . Religious belief. Board of visitation. Duties of. Annual report. Compensation. Act to be liber- ally construed. Purposes to be carried out. Repeal. Preamble. Jurisdiction of ' courts of quarter sessions. "Dependent child and neglected child” defined. 12 . ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. THE SECOND JUVENILE COURT ACT (Declared constitutional in, 00min. 1). Fisher, 27 Pa. Sup. Ct. 175; aflirmed in Comm. 1). Fisher, 213 Pa. 48.) ACT 23D APRIL, 1903 (P. L. 274), AS AMENDED BY Acrs 1ST APRIL, 1909 (P. L. 89) ; 22]) APRIL, 1909 (P. L. 119) ; 1ST JUNE, 1911; 15TH JUNE, 1911. AN ACT Defining the powers of the several courts of quarter sessions of the peace, within this Commonwealth, with reference to the care, treat- ment 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. “7hereas, The welfare of the State demands that children should be guarded from association and contact with crime- and criminals, and the ordinary process of the criminal law does not provide such treatment and care and moral encouragement as are essential to all children in the formative period of life, but endangers the whole future of the child; And VVher'eas, Experience has shown that children, lacking proper parental care or guardianship, are led into courses of life which may render them liable to the pains and penalties ‘ of the criminal law of the State, although in fact the real in— terests of such child or children require that they be not incar‘ cerated in penitentiaries and jails, as members of the criminal class, but be subjected to a wise care, treatment and control. that their evil tendencies may be checked and their better in- ' stincts may be strengthened; And. Whereas, To that end, it is important that the powers of the courts, in respect to the care, treatment and control over dependent, neglected, delinquent and incorrigible chil- dren, should be clearly distinguished from the powers exercised in the administration of the criminal laws: Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the courts of quarter sessions of the peace, within the several counties of this Com— monwealth, shall have and possess full jurisdiction in all pro ceedings which may be brought before them affecting the treat— ment and control of dependent, neglected, incorrigible and de— linquent children, under the age of sixteen years; and for the purpose of this act the words “dependent child” and “neglected child” shall mean any child who is destitute, homeless, aban— doned, or dependent upon the public for support, or who has RELATING TO CHILDREN. 13 not proper parental care or guardianship. The words “incorri— gible children” shall mean any child who is charged by its parent or guardian with being unmanageable. The words “delinquent child” shall mean any child, including such as have heretofore been designated ‘incorrigible children,” who may be charged with the violation of any law of this Common- wealth, or the ordinance of any city, borough or township. The powers of the court of quarter sessions of the peace, as provided for in this act, may be exercised by any one or more judges of such court, who may be assigned for the purpose at a session of said court, which shall be known as the juvenile court; and all sessions of such juvenile court shall be held separate and apart from any session of the court held for the purpose of its general criminal or other business, and the rec- ords of the proceedings of such juvenile court shall be kept in a docket, separate from all other proceedings of said court. Section 2. The powers of the court may be exercised: (1) Upon the petition of any citizen, resident of the county, setting forth that a child is neglected, dependent or delinquent, and is in need of the care and protection of the court. (2) Whenever any magistrate or justice of the peace, in committing a child arrested for an indictable offence, shall cer- tify that, in his opinion, the good of the child and the interests of the State do not require a prosecution upon an indictment, under the criminal laws of the Commonwealth. (3) Whenever, after return made by a magistrate of the proceedings, upon the arrest of such delinquent child for an indictable offence, the district attorney of the county, either before or after the indictment, shall certify that, in his opinion, the good of the child and the interests of the State do not 1equire a piosecution upon an indictment, under the criminal laws of this Commonwealth. (4) Whenever, upon the trial of any indictment of such de~ linquent child, the judge trying the case is of opinion that the 7 good of the child and the interests of the State do not require a conviction under the criminal laws of this Commonwealth. Upon the filing of any petition, as above set forth, or when— ever the jurisdiction of the court has attached by the filing of a certificate of a magistrate or justice of the peace, or of the district attorney, or by the action of a judge, as above set forth, it shall be within the power of the judge holding said juvenile court to make all necessary orders for compelling the produc— “Incorrigible children.” “Delinquent child.” Assignment of judge. Juvenile court. Sessions. Records. Powers of the court. Petition. Certificate of mag- istrate or justice of the peace. Certificate of the district attorney. Action of the judge. Power of the judge. Custody and con- trol of the child. Appointment of probation officers. Duties of. Commitment of child. Order on parents or guardians. 14 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY; tion of such child, and the attendance of the parents and all persons having the custody or control of the child, or with whom the child may be; and pending the final disposition of any case, the. child shall be subject to the order of the court, and may be permitted to remain in the control of its parents or‘the per— son having it in charge, or of the probation oflicer, or may be kept in some place provided by the State or county authorities, or by any association having for one of its objects the care of delinquent or neglected children, as the court may order. Section 3. The court shall appoint or designate one or more discreet persons, of good character, to serve as probationofficers during the pleasure of the court. Said probation officers shall receive compensation to be fixed by the said court- of quarter sessions of the peace. Such compensation shall not exceed one hundred dollars a month for each officer, and, in addition thereto, such expenses as may be necessary and approved by said courts. Said compensation and expenses shall be paid monthly, at the end of each month, by the county treasurer, upon an order of the county commissioners approved by the president judge of said courts. And it shall be the duty of all probation officers, so appointed, to make such investigations as may be required by the court, to be present in court when the case is heard, and to furnish to the court such information and assist- ance as the judge may require, and to take such charge of any child, before and after trial, as may be directed by the court. Section 4. At the hearing the judge or judges holding such session of the court shall determine, after an inquiry into facts, what order for the commitment and custody and care of the child, the child’s own good and the best interests of the State may require; and may commit such child to the care of its parents, subjeCt to the supervision of a probation officer, or to some suitable institution, or the care of some reputable citizen of good moral character,.or to the care of some training school, or to an industrial school, or the care of some association will— ing to receive it; and in either such case. it shall be within the power of the court to make an order upon the parent or parents of any such child to contribute to the support of the child, such sum as the court may determine; and the court shall have full power and authority to refer non—support cases to the desertion probation officers, and to enforce said order of court in the same way as the court of quarter sessions of the peace may refer cases and enforce the order for sup-port made under and by virtue of “An act. for the relief of wives and children deserted RELATING TO CHILDREX. 15 by their husbands and fathers within this Commonwealth,” ap— proved the thirteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty—seven, and the supplements thereto which have been heretofore or may hereafter be passed; it being further provided that, in all cases in which a delinquent child shall be committed to the care of a reformatory institution, when such child shall be discharged from such institution the court shall be duly advised thereof, and a record of such dis- charge shall be kept in the juvenile court docket. Section 5. In any'case where the court shall award a depen— dent child to the care of any association or individual, in ac— cordance with the provisions of this act, the child shall, unless , otherwise ordered, become a ward, and be subject to the guardianship of the association or individual to whose care it is committed. Such association or individual shall have author- ity to place such child in a family home, with or without indenture, and may be made party to any proceedings 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 guardian— ship of any estate of the child. Section 6. In the caselof a delinquent child, the court may continue the hearing from time to time; and may commit the 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; or the court may commit the child to the care and guardianship of the probation officer, to be placed in a suitable family home, subject to the supervision of such probation officer; or it may authorize the said probation officer to board out the said child in some suitable family home, in case provision is made by voluntary contribution or otherwise for the payment of the board of such child, or may direct that the payment of the board of such child be made by the proper county, until a suit— able provision may be made for the child in a home without such payment; or the court may commit the child to a suitable institution for the care of delinquent children, or to any society, Proviso. Discharge from reformatory insti- tution. Ward. Guardianship. Legal adoption. Guardianship not to include estate. Care of the child. Unlawful to con- fine child in jail, police station, etc. Commitment of minors. Change or exten< sion of orders. Juvenile court. Probation. Religious belief. Approved family home. Under the age of 12 years. 16 - ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. duly incorpo1ated, having for one of its objects the protection of dependent or delinquent children. Section 7. No child, pending a. hearing undei the provisions of this act, shall be held in confinement. in any county or other jail, police station or in any institution to which adult convicts are sentenced. Section 8. All orders, which may hereafter be made by the several courts of quarter sessions of the peace of this Common- wealth, respecting the commitment to institutions, or other judicial disposal, of minors, under the age of sixteen years, by virtue of the several provisions of this act or any of them, shall be subject to amendment, change or extension by the judges thereof sitting in juvenile court, upon motion of the district attorney or chief probation officer, or upon petition of any other person or persons in interest, after at least five (5) days’ written notice both to the district attorney and the chief pro— bation oflicer, 11p to the time when such minors shall have attained the age of twenty—one years; and in the case of any minor to whom the jurisdiction of the juvenile court has at- tached or shall attach under any of the provisions of this act, and who has been or shall be released on probation before he or she has attained the age of sixteen years, such probation ‘ shall, at the discretion of the judge of the juvenile court be taken to continue in full force and effect until such min01 attains the age of twenty-one years. Section 9. The court, in making all orders for the commit.— ment of children, shall place them, as far as possible, in care and custody 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, as far as possible, provide, in making orders of commitment, that the care, custody and discipline of the child shall be as nearly as possible that which should be given by its parents. In all cases where it can properly be done, the child shall be placed in an approved family home, and become a member of the family by legal adop— tion or otherwise. Section 10. It shall not be lawful to commit the custody of any delinquent child, under the age of twelve years to any institution of correction or 1eformation, unless, after the care and oversight given such child under the probation system pro~ vided for by this act, the court finds that the best interests of the child and the welfaie of the community require such com~ mitment; and it shall not be lawful to commit the custody of '7. m »———..- J11,” RELATING TO CHILDREN. 17 any neglected or dependent child, who is. delinquent, to any institution of correction or reformation in which delinquent children are received, nor shall any delinquent child be com- mitted to any institution in which dependent or neglected chil— dren are received. Section 11. Nothing herein contained shall be in derogation Trials mm of the powers of the courts of quarter sessions and oyer and ter- indictment. miner to try, upon an indictment, any delinquent child who, in due course, may be brought to trial. tgéfii‘égt 21’ Section 12. An act, entitled “An Act to regulate the treat- ment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent. chil- dren, under the age of sixteen years; providing for the estab- lishment of juvenile courts; regulating the practice before such courts; prohibiting the commitment to jail or police sta— tion of a child under fourteen years of age; providing for the appointment, compensation and duties of agents of juvenile reformatories; imposing certain duties upon the Board of Pub— lic Charities of this State; regulating the incorporation of as— sociations for the care of dependent, neglected or delinquent children; prohibiting foreign associations from placing children in homes in this State, for adoption or under indenture except under certain conditions; providing for the appointment of a board of visitors, and repealing acts and parts of acts inconsist— ' ent with the pro-visions of this act,” approved the twenty-first ; day of May, one thousand nine hundred and one,,and all acts Repeal- or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are repealed. EXPENSES INCURRED BY PROBATION OFFICERS ACT. 7TH JUNE, 1907 (P. L. 438). AN ACT To supplement an act, entitled “An act defining the powers of the several courts of quarter sessions of the peace within this Common- , wealth, with reference to the care, treatment, and control of depend— ent, neglected, incorrigible and delinquent children, under the age 7 of sixteen years, and providing for the means in which such power ~ . may be exercised,” approved April twenty-three, one thousand nine 1 ' hundred and three“ r 9 Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That when, in the enforcc- Juvenile courts. ment of the.act above cited to be supplemented, and in pur- suance of its provisions, it shall become necessary for a process . p to issue, or when an order of court is made, the chief probation Issue of process. Assistance of sheriff. Sheriff’s fees. Mileage. Proviso. Certificate of probation officer. Service of constable. ‘Constable’s fees. Certificate. Transportation expenses. 18 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. officer, if there be such, otherwise the probation officer in charge, may, in his or her discretion, call upon the sheriff of the county for assistance in service and execution of the same; and for the service so rendered by the sheriff, upon application of such probation officer, he shall be entitled to receive the following fees :— For receiving, making endorsements thereon, docketing, and making return of each such process, order or notice, seventy— five cents. For executing any such process, order, or notice, where the child is to be taken into custody, seventy-five cents. In addition thereto, for mileage in serving or executing any of‘ the above processes, orders, or notices, the sheriff shall be entitled to receive, and have taxed as costs, three cents a mile for each mile actually traveled and necessary, the same to be allowed on each separate process, order or notice; provided, he shall not. receive more than one mileage where the defendants, in two or more contemporaneous orders, process, or notice, are the same; and for the transportation of each child three cents per mile, in addition to necessary help and expense. Such probation officer shall. certify to the judge presiding in the juvenile court the demand upon the sheriff for his service, together with a statement of the fees and expenses, and the court shall approve the same, or So much thereof as may be found correct, and direct by whom they shall be paid. Section 2,. When, in pursuance of the provisions of said act, a child under the age of sixteen years is arrested, with or with— out warrant, or is brought before a magistrate in any other proceeding and the case shall be transferred to the juvenile court, the constable, to whom shall be given the custody of such child for delivery to the officers of the juvenile court, shall be entitled to receive thereof the following fees, to be taxed as costs in the case; to wit :H. For services performed in delivering such child to the juve— nile court, seventy—five cents, together with three cents per mile for each mile actually traveled and necessary, and three cents per mile for the transportatiou of each such child, in addition to necessary help and expense. Such probation officer shall certify the account of the con- stable performing'such service to the judge presiding in the juvenile court, who shall approve the same, or so much thereof as may be found correct, and direct by whom it shall be paid. Section 3. When the court, after trial or hearing makes such disposition of a child as requires its transportation to a point 5": ... . .~ ‘wwwfiw. i l l 1 I v I l RELATING TO CHILDREN. it) outside of the county, the necessary expenses of its removal, and those of the probation officer in charge, shall be certified, as above provided, to the judge presiding, who shall approve the same, or so much thereof as may be found. correct, and direct by Whom it shall be paid. Section 4. The court, in disposing of the question of the payment of the costs provided for in this act, niav impose them 011 the county; or on the complainant if, after hearing, it be found that the complaint was made withoiit probable cause; or upon the parent or parents, or guardian or custodian, of the child if, after hearing, it be found that they were at fault and are of ability to pay. VIOLATION OF P AR Ol It Aer Grit MAY, 1909 (P. l). 48$). A SU PPLF MENT To an act. entitled “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,” approved the twenty-third day of April, Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and three; providing that it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to contribute to the delinquency of any minor to Whom the jursidiction of any juvenile court has attached, or to aid or abet said minor in violating his or her parole of any order of such court. and providing penalties therefor. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That all persons who con- tribute to the delinquency of any minor to whom the jurisdic- tion of any juvenile court within this Commonwealth has attached, 01 shall l1e1eafte1 attach or who knowingly assist or encouiage such minor in violatino his or her paiole or any o1der of the said couit shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not mo1e than five hundred dollars, or to undergo imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. ' Section 2. In trials or hearings upon charges of violating the provisions of this act, knowledge of the delinquent’s minority, and of the said court’s orders and decrees concerning such minor, shall be presumed in the absence of satisfactory proof of the contrary. Payment of costs. Juvenile courts. Assistance or encouragement of delinquent minors. P c 11alty. 20 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. CONFINEMENT AND TRIAL Ac'r 12TH JUNE, 1893 (P. L. 459). AN ACT To regulate the confinement and trial of infants under the age of 16 5 years. ‘2 Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That no child under restraint or conviction, under sixteen years of age, shall be placed in any apartment or cell of any prison or place of confinement, or in any court room during the trial of adults, or in any vehicle of transportation in company with adults charged with or con- victed of crime. Section 2. All cases involving the commitment or trial of children for any crime or misdemeanor, before any magistrate or justice of the peace, or in any court, may be heard and determined by such court at suitable times to be designated therefor by it, separate and apart from the trial of other crim— inal cases, of which session a separate docket and record shall be kept. CONFTNEMENT OF CHILDREN A\VAITTXG TRIAL ACT 81) APRIL, 1903 (P. L. 137). AN ACT Regulating the confinement of children under the age of sixteen years, awaiting trial. Section 1. That it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners, in each county of the Commonwealth, to pro— vide in the county a separate room or rooms, or a suitable building, to be used exclusively for the confinement of any and all children, under the age of sixteen years, who may be in custody, awaiting trial or hearing in the courts of the county. 1 5' fl l. RELATING TO CHILDREN. 21 HOUSE OF DETENTION ACT 21) JULY, 1901 (P. L. 601). AN ACT To establish in cities of the first and second class a house or houses of detention for delinquent, dependent and neglected children, and providing for the management and maintenance thereof. Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That in every city of the first and second class there shall be provided, in the way here- inafter mentioned, a house or houses of detention, for the reception of untried juvenile offenders and neglected 'and dependent children under the age of sixteen years, who, may be in the custody of an officer appointed or elected under any law of this Commonwealth, and whose, cases may be under judicial investigation under any laws of this Commonwealth, pending such investigation and final determination of such case or cases. Section 2. Houses of detention, established under the pro— visions of this act, shall be provided and managed by a board of managers, Consisting of five members, two of whom shall be women; said board of managers to be appointed by the judges of the courts of oyer and terminer and general jail . delivery and the courts of quarter sessions of the peace having jurisdiction in the said respective cities. Section 3. The board of managers piovided for in this act shall serve without compensation, and shall hold oiiice for two years and until their successors aie appointed, subject to 1e- moval by the judge of the Said cou1t. Section 4. The duties of said boa1d of manageis shall be to provide a house or houses, bv leasing the same or other- vise, for the reception of child1en to be placed therein under the provisions of this act, to alter said house or houses for such purpose, to keep the same in r,epair and generally to fit and furnish said house or houses so that the same may be suitable foi the ca1e of the child1en intended to be 1eceived. and especially to arrange such house or houses so that a sep- arate room (so far as possible) may be provided for the accom— modation 'of each child who may be received therein, and gen- erally to supervise and oversee the management of said house or houses. Section 5. Expenses incurred in the performance of the said duties of the board of managers shall be itemized, and House of detention for juvenile oflend- ers and dep erident children. Board of managers. Term of. Duties of. Expenses. Number of children to be received. Caretakers. Other disposition of delinquent children. Maintenance. Repeal. 22 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. presented with proper vouchers to the county commissioners- of the county containing the city for which said board of managers may be appointed, who shall be required to pay" the said expenses. Section 6. Not more than twenty—five (25) children shall be received into any single house of detention provided for in this act. \Nlhenever it shall be necessary to accommodate more than twenty—five (:25) children of the class hereinbefore- defined (pending such judicial disposition), it shall be the duty of the board of managers to provide an additional house or- houses to accommodate such other children. Section ‘7. It shall be the duty of the board of managers. to appoint a man and woman to take charge of the house and children committed to such house of detention, and generally to maintain order and discipline among the children so com—- mitted into their keeping. The salary or compensation to be- paid to said care—takers shall be fixed by the board of managers, and certified to the county commissioners as one of the expenses of maintaining such house. or houses of detention as are estab lished by this act. Section 8. It shall not be essential to commit a. delinquent, dependent or neglected child to the house. of detention estab- lished by this act if, in the judgment of the probation officer now or hereafter to be appointed under any present existing- law or laws of this commonwealth, it should be deemed expedi— ent to otherwise dispose of said child. Section 9. The cost and expenses of maintaining the houses of detention by this act established, shall be provided by the respective counties containing the said house or houses of deten— tion, as the cost and expenses of maintaining county prisons:- are now provided. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. RELATING TO CHILDREN. [0 O3 COMMITMENT OF CHILDREN ACT 26TH MARCH, 1903 (P. L. 66). AN ACT To regulate the commitment of children under the age of 16 years to institutions of correction or reformation. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That no child under the age of sixteen years shall be committed by any magistrate or justice of the peace to any institution for the purpose of correction or reformation, but all applications for such commitment shall be made to the court of quarter sessions of the county. Section 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. CIIILDREN CONVICTED IN U. S. COURTS ' ACT 22D MARCH, 1899 (P. L. 15). AN ACT Providing for the admission of juvenile delinquents, convicted in the United States Court in this Commonwealth, in reform institutions in this Commonwealth, and providing for the payment of the cost of their maintenance. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That all jailors, prisonkeepers, wardens, managers, and their and each and every of their depu- ties, having control or charge of any reformatory, house of refuge, or other institution for juvenile delinquents or juvenile convicts, new in existence or hereafter to be created within this Commonwealth. be and the same are hereby empowered and directed to receive into such reformatory, house of correc— tion, or other institution for juvenile delinquents or juvenile convicts, all persons convicted and sentenced by any circuit or district court of the United States in and for the Eastern and \Vestern districts of Pennsylvania of any criminal offense, when by virtue of the law of this Commonwealth they are now em- powered or directed, or may hereafter be empowered or directed, to receive juvenile delinquents or convicts convicted. and sen— tenced in courts of oyer and terminer or quarter sessions of the peace in and for this Commonwealth, or committed to any such reform institution by a magistrate, alderman or justice of the peace, or other judicial Officer of this Commonwealth having Commitment of children under 162 years of age. Juvenile delin- quents, convicted“ in the United States Courts, to be admitted into State reform institutions. Proviso. The cost for sup- port and main- tenance to be paid by the United States. 24 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. power to so commit; P1ovided, That no such convict shall be so admitted unless residing within this Commonwealth. Section 2. The cost for the support and maintenance of each convict, admitted into any such reform institution under the provision of this act, shall be paid for by the United States in the same manner as the United States now pays or may hereafter pay- for the support and maintenance of persons con— victed in the circuit and district courts of the United States in and for the Eastern and \Vestern districts of Pennsylvania, and sentenced and committed to county jails or State peniten- tiaries in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. JURISDICTION OF COURTS For dependent, neglected, incorrigible and delinquent chil- dren, see Juvenile Court, section 1, page 12. i For desertion cases, see Relief of Deserted Wives and Chil- dren, Act 13th April, 1867, end of section 1, page 83. Matters pertaining to the estates of orphans are in the charge of the Orphans’ Courts of the several counties. , THE HOUSE OF REFUGE ‘ VVA~S~E01EIDED IN 1826, THE ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION BEING DATED FEBRUARY OF THAT YEAR. IT WAs INCORPO- RATED BY THE ACT OF 231) MARCH, 1826 (P. L. 133). Section 6. The said managers shall, at their discretion, re— ceive into the said House of Refuge such children The same section provides that the charge and power of the managers over females shall not extend beyond the age of 18 years. This section was amended by the act of 16th April, 1835 (P. L. 133), which provides that “it shall be lawful for the managers of the House of Refuge, at their discretion, to receive into their care and guardianship infants, males under the age of twenty-one, and females under the age of eighteen years, committed to their custody in either of the following modes, viz: The act provides for commitments by an alderman or justice RELATING TO CHILDREN. 25 of the peace of vicious and incorrigible children or vagrants and by the courts upon convictions for crime, and provides for a revision of the commitments made by aldermen and justices by a judge of the Courts of Common Pleas. By the act of 11th April, 1850 (P. L. 448), the power of the managers over females was extended to twenty-one years if the girl on admission was sixteen. By the act of 26th January, 1854 (P. L. 12), the managers were directed to receive children committed to. their custody by “two Judges, the President Judge being one, of the Court of Common Pleas of any County in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.’ ’ The act of 26th March, 1903 (P. L. 66), provides that no child under the age of sixteen years shall be committed by any magistrate or justice of the peace to the House of Refuge, but. all applications for such commitments shall be made to the Court of Quarter Sessions. This leaves the power in magistrate to commit children be- tween sixteen and twenty—one, and if any such are committed the duty is still upon the judges to revise such commitments. The managers, however, have tried to discourage commit- ments of children over sixteen, and probably refuse to receive children over sixteen except in rare cases. HOUSE OF REFUGE CE \VESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ACT 22]) APRIL, 1850 (P. L. 538). AN ACT To incorporate an association for the establishment of a House of Refuge for Western Pennsylvania. #5 Section 15. It shall be lawful for the board of managers of said house of refuge, at their discretion, to receive into their care and guardianship infants, males under the age of twenty- one years, and females under the age of twenty—one years, com— mitted to their custody in either of the following modes, to wit :—— I. (Repealed) II. (Repealed) III. Infants who shall be taken or committed as vagrants, 26 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. or upon any criminal charge, or duly convicted of criminal offenses, as may, in the judgment of the court of oyer and terminer, or the court of quarter sessions of the peace of any county Within the \Vestern district; and the said managers shall have power to place the said children committed to their care, during their minority, at such employment, and cause them to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge as may be suitable to their years and capacities; and they shall have power, at their discretion to bind out the said cliildren,11'ith their consent, as apprentices, during their minority, to such persons, and at such places, to learn such proper trades and employments, as in their judgment shall be most conducive to the reformation and amendment, and will tend to the future benefit and advantage of such children. . u u ”p. u‘ "5 T? 7: ’0' '41 "f l . COMMTTMFNT OF BOYS TO PRO FEClOl LT ACT 11’1‘11 STAY, 1901 (I). L 187). AN ACT Authorizing judges of the courts of quarter sessions of the peace. magistrates and justices of the peace, to commit Vicious and incor— rigible minors of the male sex, to the Philadelphia Protectory for Boys, located at Protectory, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. Section 1. Be it enacted, &e., That. from and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful for judges of the courts of quarter sessions, 111agistrates and justices of the peace in this Commonwealth to commit, with the consent. of parent, guardian 01' custodian, Vicious or incorrigible minors of the male sex, to the Philadelphia Protectory for Boys, located at Protectory, Montgomery count1 1, Pennsylvania. Section 2. Such commitment shall be made by any judge, justice, or magistrate, as af01esaid, upon complaint and due proof that such minor, by reason of incorrigible beha11or or vicious conduct. has become beyond the control of his parents, guardians or custodians. . _ -3. .1. .3. .‘f. . . .‘L N. 4 u 3. q. [O a {ELATING TO CHILDREN. HUNTINGDON REFORMATORY ACT 28TH APRIL, 1887 (P. L. 63). AN ACT In relation to the imprisonment, government, and release of convicts in the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon. x. .‘L :1. J - - ~ '. .v. :1. .‘L a; . . \ . A 9i ~ 4 . . . 4 ~ A Section 4. Any court in this Commonwealth, exercising criminal jurisdiction, may sentence to the said reformatory any male criminal, between the ages of fifteen and twenty—five years, and not known to have been previously sentenced to a State prison in this or any State or country, upon the conviction in said court of such male person of a crime punishable under existing laws in a State prison. And the said board of man- agers’shall receive and take into said reformatory all male prisoners of the class aforesaid, who shall be legally sentenced on conviction as aforesaid; and all existing laws requiring the courts of this Commonwealth to sentence to the State prison all male prisoners convicted of any criminal offense between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five years, and not known to have been previously sentenced to a State prison in this Common— wealth, or any, other State or country, shall be applicable to the said reformatory, so far as to enable courts to sentence the class of prisoners so last defined to said reformatory, and not to a State prison. 0 . M .\’V >44 J—L . .- .._ .fi . . . l . . 4 Section 11. As the aim and purposes of the Industrial Re- formatory is to prevent young first offenders against the laws of the State from becoming criminals, and to subject them while in custody in this reformatory to such remedial, pre- ventative treatment, training and instruction as may make them honest, reputable citizens, the board of managers is authorized and hereby empowered to establish, by rules and regulations governing the superintendent and other officers, such a system of discipline for the inmates as will secure to each instruction \in the rudiments of an English education, and in such manual handicraft and skilled vocations as may be useful to each of the inmates after his. discharge from the reformatory, whereby said person will be able to obtain self-supporting employment. 7: 7: 9r 1“? 7‘5 7: 7: ’3': :4: 1‘: 28 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. THADDEUS STEVENS’ INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL ACT 11TH MAY, 1905 (P. L. 518). AN ACT Making an appropriation for a home or school for indigent orphans, to be called the Thaddeus Stevens Industrial and Reform School of Pennsylvania. :2. u .v. -2 :2. .v. a; v. .. )‘r A 4‘. u 4. n 'A . Section 8. There shall be received into the institution in— digent orphan boys from the State of Pennsylvania, under the age of fourteen, Whose admission may be applied for under such regulations as the Board of Trustees may adopt. In con— sidering such admission no preference shall be shown on account of race, or color, or religion. Proper provisions shall be made for giving instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, drawing, duties of citizenship, elementary manual training, the elements of farming, and such other branches as may be deemed requisite for a good English education. -:<- 9-9 M as ' ' t . l ._.1 J . 7: 3V 7: z . x EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTION FOR THE ' EEEBLE MINDED ACT 15TH MAY, 1903 (P. L. 446). AN ACT To provide for the selection of a site and the erection. of a State Insti— tution for the Feeble—Minded and Epileptic, to be called the Eastern Pennsylvania State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic, and making an appropriation therefor. 'X‘ 93 ’X‘ 'X‘ *X- *.‘I- 9‘? 9'3 9‘} Section 10. That this institution shall be entirely and spe— cially devoted to the reception, detention, care and training of epileptics and of idiotic and feeble—minded persons, of either sex, and shall be so planned, in the beginning and construc— tion, as shall provide separate classification of the numerous groups embraced under the terms “epileptic” and “idiotic” and “imbecile” or “feeble minded.” Cases afflicted with either epilepsy or paralysis shall have a due proportion of space and care in the custodial department. It is specifically determined that the processes of an agricultural training shall be primarily RELATING TO CHILDREN. 29 considered. in the educational department, and that the employ— ment of the inmates in the care and raising of stock, and the cultivation of small fruits, vegetables, roots, etc., shall be made tributary, when possible, to the maintenance of the institution. '3’: 96 -X‘ -)'r 94‘ J/: 9(- :‘3 *X‘ ’39 Section 13. Said board shall receive as inmates of said institution feeble—minded children, residents of this State, under the age of twenty years, who shall be incapable of receiving instruction in the common schools of this State. e: 96 as as a W ->.- 7* +9 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTION FOR THE FEEBLE MINDED ACT 31) JUNE, 1893 (P. L. 289). AN ACT To provide for the selection of a site and the erection. of a State insti— tution for the feeble—minded, to be called the Western Pennsylvania State Institution for the F‘eeble-Minded, and making an appropriatiOn therefor. e:- —x —x— -:-:- +9 a»; as ' 5-9 a as Section 10. ,That this institution shall be entirely and spe— cifically devoted to the reception, detention, care and training of idiotic and feeble-minded children, and shall be so planned in the beginning and construction as shall provide separate classification of the numerous groups embraced under the terms “idiotic” and “imbecile” or “feeble minded.” ’Cases afflicted with either epilepsy or paralysis shall have a due proportion of space and care in the custodial department. It is specifically determined that the processes of an agricultural training shall be primarily considered in the educational department, and that the employment of the inmates in the care and raising of stock and the cultivation of small fruits, vegetables, roots, etc., shall be made largely tributary to the maintenance of the institution. 9% ’3’: 'X' * 'X' 'X‘ 99 '7: 96 9’: 30 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. COUNTY SCHOOLS FOR BOYS ACT ls'r MAY, 1909 (P. L. 302). AN ACT Requiring counties *1 ‘1" * to establish and maintain schools for the care and education of male children under the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts * * * Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That in each county of this Commonwealth now or hereafter containing a population of not less than 750,000, and not more than 1,200,000 inhabitants, as ascertained by the United States census, there shall be estab— lished a school properly equipped for the care, maintenance and instruction of such male children as shall comewithin the provisions hereof. Such schools shall be Supplementary to the school system of the Commonwealth, shall be kept open during the entire year, and shall be. established on the cottage home plan. Section 2. The buildings of said schools shall be substan- tially constructed and adequately light-ed and Ventilated, and provided 11ith baths, playrooms, sleeping-rooms, and kitchens; and the1e shall be adequate provisions for playgiounds, as 11 ell as p11o1isi0ns for instruction in the common branches, and for manual and moral training; to the end that said schools shall as fa1 as possible, duiing the period of detention, adequately p1ovide for the mental moial, and physical 11 elfa1e and ad- 1a11cemcnt of the chi ldien the1ei11 detained. “ Section 6. Said school shall 1ecei1e boys upon the commit— ment of the ju1enile court of such county; and such school may, upon a prope1 compensation being arranged for,1ecei1e boys committed thereto by the juvenile courts of counties other than that by 11 hich said school is maintained. HOME FOR DEAF CHILDREN Ac'r 2011111 JUNE, 1891 (P. L. 371). AN ACT Making an appropriation * * * Section 1. Be it enacted, &c. That the sum of $15, 000, or as much thereof as is necessary, be and 1s he1eby appiopriated RELATING TO CHILDREN. 31 out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the building of a home for the training in speech of deaf children before they are of school age. & 7: 'X‘ as x- A:- as as «- 99 (Home located at Belmont and Monument avenues, Philadel— phia. It is stipulated that the oral method only shall be taught, unless the child is physically incapable of so speaking.) GIRARD COLLEGE ACT 27TH FEBRUARY, 1847 (P. L. 1178). AN ACT ‘ Relative to the Girard College for orphans. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the guardians for the relief and employment of the poor of the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark, and the townships of the Northern Liberties and Penn, be and they are hereby authorized, with the consent of the surviving mother, guardian, next friend, or by their own authority, if there be no such mother, guardian or next friend of any poor, white, male orphan child within this Commonwealth, between the age of six and ten years, for ' whose admission to the Girard College for Orphans application shall have been made, to bind such orphan child, by indenture, to the mayor, alderman and citizens of Philadelphia as trustees under the will of Stephen Girard, deceased, as an eiphan to be admitted into the said college, to be there maintained and educated according to the p1ovisions, '56 9* contained in the said will, 9“ "" * such bindi“ shall expi1e at furthest before the said orphan shall ta1n the age of eighteen years, or at the pleasure of the said trustees at any time after he shall have arrived at between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years or at any other time bef01e his attaining the said age of fourteen years, when the said eiphan shall, by mal- conduct, cease to merit the benefits of said college 96 :~: .~:’ +2 9+ ' 9% 9+ a Councils of cities of the first class may appropriate money for sup- port of certain Houses of Refuge. R epeal. 32 . ACTS or ASSEMBLY. CERTAIN OHILDREN’ S HOMES ACT 16TH APRIL, 1862 (P. L. 538). . AN ACT Relating to certain Children’s Homes. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That it shall and may be lawful for any judge, mayor, alderman 0r justice of the peace of the city of Philadelphia, to indenture, bind or commit to the St. John’s Orphans’ Asylum, or the St. Vincent’s Home, located in the city of Philadelphia, orphan, destitute, abandoned or vagrant children. APPROPRIATIONS TO HOUSES OE REFUGE ACT 25TH MAY, 1887 (P. L. 265). AN ACT Authorizing cities of the first class to make appropriation 'for the support and maintenance of houses of refuge and institutions for the reformation of juvenile delinquents, to which minor children of citizens of said cities may, by law, be committed. ‘ Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That every city of the first class be and it is hereby authorized, in the discretion of the councils thereof, to make appropriations, from the treasury of said city, to houses of refuge and institutions for the reforma- tion of juvenile delinquents, to which children of the citizens of said city may, by law, be committed, by the court, judges or magistrates of the county, within which such city may be situate, and all. laws or parts ofklaws inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. When such institutions are removed to another county. ’Act 13th May, 1889 (P. L. 20.9). ' Provisions for houses not exclusively under State control. Act 27th March, 1903 (P. L. 83). RELATING TO CHILDREN. co co CONTROL OF MINOR GIRLS ACT 24TH MARCH, 1909 (P. L. 62). AN ACT Continuing the charge and power of the managers of houses of refuge and reform schools, within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, over all girls committed to said institution, during the minority of such girls. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That whenever a girl shall have been duly committed to a house of refuge or reform school within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the charge and power of the managers of such institution, upon and over the said girl, shall continue in all cases during her minority. Section 2. All general and special laws, or charters, or parts of laws or charters, inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. BOARDING OUT CHILDREN BY INSTITUTIONS ACT 22D APRIL, 1909 (P. L. 113). AN ACT Authorizing houses of refuge and reform schools to board out inmates who have no relatives‘or guardian capable of assuming their care, and who are unfit to be indentured or placed out at wages; and to count such minors as inmates, in the charges made to the counties from which they are committed, so long as they remain under the guardianship of such houses of refuge or reform schools. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That whenever, in the opinion of the board of managers of any house of refuge or reform school in this Commonwealth, it shall be for the best interests of any minor committed to it, that he or she shall leave the insti— tution on parole, and there is no relative or guardian fit or capable of assuming the custody or care of such minor, and suchminor is through mental or physical defects unfit to be indentured or placed out on wages or for home, and it is nec- essary that board shall be paid to secure a home, it shall be lawful for such house of refuge or reform school to pay such board as may be necessary, not exceeding in any case the cur- rent per capita charge, one—half of which is paid by the counties from which children are committed to such institution, and to charge the amount so paid to the current expenses of the insti- Houses of refuge and reform schools. Charge and power of manage- ment over girl inmates. Repeal. Houses of Refuge and Reform schools. Inmates on parole. Payment of board. Charge made to the county. Children committed to industrial schools, etc. Payment by county. Proviso. Per capita. Proviso. Account of treasurer. 2n. ' ACTS or ASSEMBLY tution ; and in the charges made to the county from which such minor has been committed, he or she shall be counted as an inmate from such county so long as he or she shall remain under the guardianship of such house of refuge or reform school. MAINTENAKCE IN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS ACT 15TH APRIL, 1903 (P. L. 208). AN ACT To provide for the payment of the expenses of the maintenance and instruction of children committed to the industrial schools, or insti- tutions of like character which are not under State control, by the counties from which they have been sent, and providing a method for determining the amount due and collecting the same from said counties. ‘ Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That whenever a. child shall have been committed by a court or judge thereof to any in- dustrial school, or other institution of like character, or shall become an inmate thereof, whose parents or guardian are not of sufficient ability to pay the expense of maintaining and in- structing such child, such maintenance and instruction shall be paid by the county from which such child shall have been com- mitted: Provided, however, That the actual cost of maintain— ing and instructing such child shall be paid only, and in no event shall such per capita maintenance and instruction eX— Ceed the amount of per capita cost of maintenance and in- struction of inmates of the House of Refuge. And provided, also, that the treasurer of such industrial school, or other institution'of like character, shall transmit an account quarterly, to the commissioners of such county as may have become indebted for the maintenance and instruction of inmates in such industrial school, or other like institution, which account shall be signed by said treasurer and sworn or affirmed to by him, and attested by the superintendent of the department of such industrial school, or other institution of like character, in which such inmates may be living. It shall be the duty of said commissioners immediately upon receipt of said accounts to order the treasurer of their respective counties to pay the same. ‘ RELATING TO CHILDREN. I 35 COST OF MAINTENANCE OF CHILDREN ACT 31ST MAY, 1907 (P. L. 331). AN ACT Providing for the payment of the costs and expenses of indigent and dependent children, in conveying them to, and while in, the homes in which they may be placed. ‘ ‘ Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That whenever hereafter any indigent or dependent child shall be committed by any judge or other competent authority to the care and custody of any person or family, for the purpose of maintenance and education in the home of such person or family, such child shall be con— veyed to such home by the county commissioners, sheriff, or other proper oflicer, at the expense of the proper county, and the cost of maintenance of such child shall also be paid by the proper county, but at a sum not exceeding What it would cost to maintain and educate such child in the house of refuge, or other public institution of such county: Provided, however, That if at any time the parents or other relatives of such child shall become able to pay such costs, or to refund the money already paid, the said county may apply for and obtain an order for the payment thereof, and enforce the same, in the ' same court, and in the same manner as is or may be provided by law for compelling the maintenance and support of deserted wives and children. COST OF MAINTENANCE OF CHILDREN OUTSIDE THE STATE ACT 15TH JUNE, 1911. AN ACT To provide for the payment for the maintenance and support of chil— dren, or minors, who have been, or who may be, sentenced by the several courts of quarter sessions of the peace within this Common— . wealth, under the various juvenile court acts of this Commonwealth, where such minors have been committed to institutions outside this Commonwealth. ' Section '1. Be it enacted, &c., That where the courts of quarter sessions of the peace of any county within this Com- monwealth, heretofore have, or hereafter may, sentence and commit children, or minors, under the various juvenile court acts of this Commonwealth, to homes or institutions Without Indigent and de- pendent children. Cost and expense of conveyance and maintenance. Proviso. 36 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. this Commonwealth, in every such case such county, from which such child or minor has been, or shall be, so sentenced, shall be liable for a reasonable charge for such maintenance, ‘when the amount is ascertained and approved as hereinafter provided for. Section 2. Such institution shall prepare a written itemized statement of its claim, in such form and detail as the controller of the county shall prescribe, which statement shall be signed and sworn to by its president, attested by its secretary, and shall be under its corporate seal if incorporated, or, if not incor— porated, the written statement shall show the fact, and shall be signed and sworn to by its superintendent, and attested by its chief clerk, and when so prepared and presented to the proper officers of the respective county, it shall be audited, and the sum or sums found to be reasonably and equitably due by such officers shall be paid. BINDING OUT OF CHILDREN BY OVERSEERS ACT 13TH JUNE, 1836 (P. L. 541). AN ACT Relating to the support and employment of the poor. ‘ v v 7‘? T: 4» ‘ s ‘ u n H . . ~< Section 8. It shall be lawful for the overseers of every dis— trict, with the approbation and consent of two or more magis— trates of the same county, to put out as apprentices all poor children whose parents are dead, or by the said magistrates found to be unable to maintain them, so as that the time or term of years of such apprenticeship, if a male, do expire at or before the age of twenty-one years, and if a female, at or before the age of eighteen years. —:-:— as as -x- a 9+ as Jr 9:- )6 By the 46th section of the act of 13th June, 1836 (P. L. 551), the directors of the poor in Washington county may bind without the approbation of two justices. And so may those of Delaware county, by the act. of 1st March, 1867 (P. L. 319). And by the act of 11th April, 1818 (P. L. 532), the guardians of the poor of Pittsburgh may bind out any poor person, under the age of twenty-one years, without the concurrence. of justices of the peace. By the act of 11th March, 1807 (4 P. L. 62), providing for the erection of a house for the employment and support of the poor in the county of Franklin, the directors of the poor of that county may themselves bind out as apprentices, RELATING TO CHILDREN. 37 such children as shall come under their notice as paupers by a warrant from two justices of the peace; and, in conjunction with two justices, may bind out such children whose parents are dead, or shall be found by the directors and justices unable to maintain them. ~—Purden’s Digest, V 01.3, page 3558. BINDING OF CHILDREN BY INSTITUTIONS ACT 13TH APRIL, 1899 (P. L. 46). AN ACT Authorizing and empowering the courts of common ,pleas and the orphans’ courts of the respective counties Within this Commonwealth to make and enter an order or decree, granting to the proper officers of all benevolent and charitable institutions, asylums or corporations Within this Commonwealth, the right and power to bind out and indenture minor children, who have been maintained and cared for by said institution, asylum or corporation for a period of one year or over at the expense, either in whole or in part, of such institu— tion, asylum or corporation; and prescribing the manner in which said courts shall take jurisdiction of such cases and the effect of such indenturing, made under and pursuant to such order or decree. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That whenever any benevolent ‘ or charitable institution, asylum or corporation whether created by general or special laws of this Commonwealth, shall here— after maintain and care for any minor child for a period of one year or over at the expense, either in whole or in part, of such institution, asylum or corporation, then the courts of common pleas of the proper county, or where the rights of a guaidian are or may be affected thereby, the orphans’ couit of said county, are hereby authorized and empowered, in all proper cases, upon petition to them made by the board of managers or proper officers of such institution, asylum or corporation, and upon due notice to the parents, guardian or next friend of such minor, said notice to be personally served if practicable, otherwise such notice to be given by advertisement in such newspaper or newspapers, and for such length of time, as Said court may direct, to make and enter an order or decree grant- ing unto such petitioners the right and power to indenture said minor, for and during its minority, to any suitable person or persons; and said indenture thus made shall vest in the person to whom said minor is so indentured the sole and absolute right to the care, control and custody and service of said minor, during its said minority, as against such parent, guardian or The Courts of Common Pleas and Orphans’ Court may grant and decree to officers of benev- olent and charit- able institutions, etc., the right and. power to bind out and indenture minor children. Upon petition. Due notice to be given. r Proviso. Where guardians of the poor may bind an orphan to any city the mother, etc, of such orphan may so bind. Guardians of the poor not to receive or retain children between two and sixteen, except, &c. Such children to be placed in edu- ‘ cational institution or home for children. 38 ACTS or ASSEMBLY. next friend so notified of said petition, as aforesaid: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to interfere in any manner with or prejudice the rights over said minor, reserved in such indenture by and to said institu- tion, asylum or corporation. BINDING OF ORPHANS BY MOTHER Aer 93D MAY, 1887 (P. L 168). AN ACT To authorize the binding of any orphan, to any city, to be made by mother, guardian or next friend Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That in all cases whére, by ' any law of this Commonwealth, the guardians for the relief and employment of the poor of any city, district or township, are authorized to bind any orphan to any city, the said binding may be made by the mother, guardian or next friend of the said orphan, and shall be of the same force and effect, and as binding upon the said orphan as if the indenture were executed by the guardians of the poor. ALMSHOUSES ACT 13TH JUNE, 1883 (P. L. 111). AN ACT To prohibit the receiving and detaining of children in alms housesand poor houses, and to provide for the care and education of such children. ‘ ' Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That it shall not be lawful for the overseers or guardians or directors of the poor in the several counties, cities, boroughs and townships of this Oom- monwealth to receive into, or retain in, any alms house or poor‘ house any child between two and sixteen years of age for a longer time than sixty days, unless such child be an unteachable idiot, an epileptic or a paralytic, or otherwise so disabled or de~ formed as to render it incapable of labor or service. Section 2. It shall be the duty of said overseers or other persons having charge of the poor to place all pauper children who are in their charge, and who are over two years of age RELATING TO CHILDREN. 3:) (with the exception named in the first section of this act), in some respectable family in this State, or in some educational institution or home for children; and one of the said officers shall visit such children, in person or by agent, not less than once every six months, and make all needful inquiries as to their treatment and welfare, and shall report thereon to the board of overseers or other officers charged with the care of such children. Section 3. It shall be lawful for any county or for two or more counties in this Commonwealth, acting together, to estab— lish and maintain an industrial home for the care and training of children; but such institution or home shall be remote from any alms house or poor house, and entirely disconnected from the same, and under separate management from the keeper of the poor house. Section 4. This act shall go into effect on the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and eighty—four, and all acts of Assembly, or parts of acts, inconsistent therewith are hereby repealed from that date. CERTAIN CHARITABLE SOCIETIES ACT 8TH JUNE, 1898 (P. L. 399). AN ACT Authorizing the commitment of minors by magistrates, justices of the peace, or judges, to certain charitable societies, and providing for the method of such commitment and the cost of the visitation of such minors. I Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That it shall be lawful for any society duly incorporated, having for one of its objects the protection of children from cruelty, or the placing of children not otherwise provided for in families, to receive into its care 7 and guardianship, at its discretion, minors committed to such care and guardianship by any justice of the peace, magistrate, or judge of any court, upon complaint and due proof made, first, that such minor by reason of incorrigible, unmanageable, vicious or wayward conduct is beyond the control of the parent or guardian of such infant, or, second, that the parents of such minor by reason of vagrancy, incorrigible or vicious conduct, criminal offense, moral depravity or cruelty, are unfit to have the training and control of such minor, or, third, that the said Counties may maintain industrial home for children. Certain charitable societies may re- ceive minors com- mitted to their care by proper officers. Proof necessary before commlt- ment. Judge may com- mit minor after conviction. Minor may be committed to care of society after conviction. Selection of family with whom such minor may be placed by society. Judge shall ap- point visitors. Time of visits and report of same. 40 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. , minor is a vagrant and has no parent or guardian capable or willing to restrain, manage, or take proper care of such minor, or the said society may receive under its care and guardianship any minor, as aforesaid, when such minor has been committed to its care and guardianship by the judge of any court after said minor shall have been duly convicted of any criminal offense. Section 2. It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace, magistrate or judge of any court to commit minors to any society duly incorporated, having for one of its objects the protection of children from cruelty or the placing of children not other- wise provided for in families, upon complaintsand due proof made of facts such as are set forth in the first section of this act, after the said minors have been duly convicted of any criminal offense. 1‘6 —X« as a »:< -:e »:~:- as as 9': Section 5. It shall be the duty of the society to whom a com— mitment shall be made in accordance with the provisions of the first section of this act, when the minors so committed to it are placed in respectable families subject to the visitation and supervision of such persons as may from time to time be ap— pointed for such purpose by the judges of the court of common pleas of the county in which such commitment shall be made, to select, so far as it may be possible, families of the same religious denomination as that to which the parents of the children committed to its care shall belong. Section 6. It shall be the duty of the judges of the several courts of common pleas within this Commonwealth to appoint visitors to visit the children committed in accordance with the provisions of this act, by any magistrate, justice of the peace, or judge in their respective counties, the said visits to be made at intervals not longer than once every six months, and the said visitors shall report upon the character of the home in which said child shall be placed, and the expense of said visitation shall be fixed by the court and borne by the counties aforesaid. RELATING TO CHILDREN. 4:1 COST OF COURT PROCEEDINGS ACT 11TH MAY, 1911. AN ACT Supplementary to an act, entitled “An act authorizing the commitment of minors by magistrates, justices of the peace, or judges of certain charitable societies, and providing for the method of such commit- ment, and the cost of the visitation of such minors,” approved the eighth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That Whenever, in the enforce- ment of the act to which this is a supplement, any magistrate or justice of the peace, after hearing, shall be of the opinion that the minor should not be committed to said society, and shall discharge such minor, the costs of the proceedings before such magistrate or justice shall be paid by the proper county. Section 2. Whenever any judge of any court of quarter sessions shall make an order for the detention of any minor, as provided for in said act, or Shall order the discharge of said minor, such judge may direct whether all. the costs of such proceedings be paid by the proper county or by the complainant, or by both in such proportion as to such judge shall seem equitable. BOARDING OE INFANTS ACT 27TH APRIL, 1909 (I). L. 211). AN ACT Regulating the licensing of persons engaged in the business of receiving, boarding, or keeping infant children, under the age of three years. for hire or reward, in cities of the first class; providing that such licenses shall be granted annually by the Director of the Department of Public Health and Charities in such cities; authorizing the making of rules and regulations for the issuing and registering of such licenses for the conduct of such business, and for the inspec- tion of the premises in which said business is conducted; making . the violation of the act and of the rules and regulations made thereunder a misdemeanor, and prescribing the penalty therefor. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That it is hereby made unlaw— ful for any person or persons in any city of the first class, other than institutions duly incorporated for the purpose, to engage in the business of receiving, boarding, or keeping infant chil- dren, under the age of three years, for hire or reward, or to Minors. Discharge by Justice. Costs. Detention or dis- charge by court. Costs. Cities of the first class. Receiving, board- ing or keeping in— fant children for hire or reward. License. Applications. Term of license. Proviso. Right ‘of inspec- tion. Authority of Di- rector of Depart- ment of Public Health and Chari- ties. 42 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. receive or take for such purpose more than two such children unaccompanied by an adult caretaker for caretakers, Without legal commitment, unless he or she shall haVe first obtained a written or printed license so to do from the Director of the Department of Public Health and Charities of such cities, or to engage or continue in such business, or receive, take, or retain more than two such children, after the revocation of such license. Section 2. It shall and may be lawful for the Director of the Department of Public Health and Charities in such cities, at his discretion, to issue a license to any person applying there'- for for the purpose specified in section one of this act, upon the payment into the city treasury by such person of a fee of one dollar, which license shall be revocable at all times by the court of quarter sessions of the county in which any such city shallbe situated, or any judge thereof, upon cause shown. Such license shall be granted upon written application, to be made therefor at least ten (10‘) days before the first day of Septem— ber in the year one thousand nine hundred and nine, and annu— ally thereafter. Such applications shall state the name of the person or persons to whom the license is desired to be issued, the place in which it is proposed that the! said business shall be carried on, and such other matters as may be prescribed by the Director of said Department. Such license when issued shall be effective for a period of one year from the first day of Sep— tember, and may. be renewed annually, and it shall authorize the person or persons therein to carry 011 the. said business, only at the location stated in said application: Provided, That the Director of said Department may provide for the issuing of original licenses. for a. part of any year, to expire on the thirty—first day of August next following, or for the transfer. thereof to another place or places. Section 3. It shall be lawful for any member or officer of the State Board of Charities or of the Department of Public Health and Charities in such cities, .or of the bureau of such department having charge of the health affairs of such cities, or any duly authorized officer of any incorporated society for the protection of children from cruelty, at all reasonable times to enter and inspect the premises wherein any such children are boarded, received or kept. Section 4. The Director of the Department of Public Health and Charities in such cities be and he is hereby authorized, upon the recommendation of the chief of the bureau in charge RELATING TO CHILDREN. 43 of the health afiairs therein, to make and adopt rules and regu- lations, not inconsistent with this act, with respect to the appli- cation for and the issuance, renewal, exhibition, and regis- tration of such licenses; for the conduct of the business of receiving, boarding, or keeping infant children under the age- of three years, as hereinbefore provided for ; and for the inspec- tion of the premises in which such business shall be conducted, by the ofiicers or agents; of such department or bureau, at all times. ' Section 5. Any person who shall violate any of the pro- visions of this act, or of the rule-s or regulations which may be adopted in pursuance thereof, shall be guilty of a misde— meanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred (100) dollars. Section 6. This act shall take effect on the first day of Sep- tember, one thousand nine hundred and nine 5 and the act approved May twenty—eight, one thousand eight. hundred and eighty—five, entitled ‘y‘An act supplementary to an act entitled ‘An act to protect children from neglect and cruelty, and relat— ing to their employment, protection, and adoption,’ approved the eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy—nine, providing for the. further protection of minors, and regulating the boarding and maintaining of infant children for hire,” in so far as it is inconsistent with or is supplied by the provisions of this act, and all other acts or part of acts inconsistent herewith, be and the same are hereby‘repealed. BOARDING OF INFANTS ACT 9TH JUNE, 1911. AN ACT Providing for and regulating the licensing of persons engaged in the business of receiving, boarding, or keeping of infant children, under the age of three years, for hire, reward or otherwise, in cities of the third class, and authorizing the passing of general ordinances providing for and regulating the issuing of said licenses, and imposing penalties. .Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That it is hereby made un— l‘awful for any person or persons in any city of the third class. other than institutions duly incorporated for the purpose, to Rules and regula- tions. Violations. I” i ne. Act of May 28, 1885, cited for re- peal. Repeal. Governor to appoint five commissioners. Term five years. To take oath. 44 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. engage in the business of receiving, boarding, or keeping infant children, under the age of three years, for hire, reward or other— wise, or to receive or take for such purpose more than two such children unaccompanied by an adult caretaker or caretakers, without legal commitment, unless he or she shall have first obtained a license so to do from the mayor of each respective city, or to engage or continue in such buSiness, or receive, take, or retain more than tWO children, after the revocation of such license. ' ‘ Section 2. The mayor of each of the said cities shall grant said license, upon such terms, and under such rules, regulations and penalties, as shall be prescribed by general ordinance. THE BOARD OF PUBLIC CHARITIES ACT 24TH APRIL, 1869 (P. L. 90). AN ACT To create a Board of Public Charities. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House: of Rep— resentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall, as soon as practicable after the passage of this act, appoint five commissioners, who, together with the gen- eral agent and secretary hereinafter mentioned, shall constitute a board of public charities; one of the persons so appointed shall hold office for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years and one for five years, unless sooner removed; appointments to fill vacancies caused by death, resig- nation or removal before the expiration of terms may be made for the residue of such terms by the Governor, subject to the consent of the Senate, and all appointments to fill vacancies caused by expiration of terms shall be made in the same man- ner, and shall be for the period of five years each. Section 2. The commissioners, before entering upon their duties, shall, respectively, take and subscribe the oath required of other State officers, which shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, who is hereby authorized and directed to administer said oath; they shall have power to elect RELATING TO CHILDREN. ‘ 45 a president out of their own number, to appoint a general agent and secretary, and to adopt such regulations for the transaction of the business of the board and the management of its affairs as they may deem expedient. Section 3. The said board shall be provided with a suitable room in the State Capitol, in which it shall hold its meetings, and it shall meet therein at least once in every three months; the time for such regular meetings to be fixed at the time of its organization; the commissioners shall receive no compensa- tion for their services but their actual traveling and other necessary expenses, which shall be paid by the State treasurer, upon the certificate of the auditor general. Section 4. The general agent and secretary of the board of public charities shall hold his office for three years, unless sooner removed; he shall be a member of the board ex ofiicio, and it shall be his duty, subject to the control and direction of said board, to keep a correct record of its proceedings, perform such clerical services as it may require, oversee and conduct its out—door business, visit all charitable and correctional institu— tions in the State at least once in each year, except as herein— after provided, and as much oftener as the board may direct, examine the returns of the several cities, counties, wards, bor- oughs and townships in relation to the support of paupers _ therein, and in relation to births, deaths and marriages; and he shall prepare a series of interrogatories, with the necessary accompanying blanks, to the several institutions of charity, reform and correction in the State, and to those having charge of the poor in the several counties thereof, or any subdivision of the same, with a view to illustrate, in his annual report, the causes and best treatment of pauperism, crime, disease and in— sanity; he shall also arrange and publish in his said report all desirable information concerning the industrial and mate-rial interests of the Commonwealth bearing upon these subjects, and shall have free access to all reports and returns now required by law to be made; and he may also propose such general in— vestigations as he may think best for the approval of the board. He shall be paid annually the sum of three thousand dollars and his actual traveling expenses. Section 5.. The said commissioners shall have full power, either by themselves or the general agent, at all times, to look into and examine the conditions of all charitable, reformatory or correctional institutions within the State, financially and otherwise, to inquire and examine into their methods'of in- Shall elect Presi- dent'and appoint a general agent and secretary. Shall have room in State Capitol. Shall meet once in three months. No compensation but expenses. Duties of general agent and secretary. Powers of the commissioners. Duties of the commissioners. Duties of general agent. Annual report to the commissioners. 46 ACTS OF AS S-EMBLY. struction, the government and management of their inmates, the official conduct of trustees, directors and other officers and employee of the same, the condition of the buildings, grounds and other property connected therewith, and into all other matters pertaining to their usefulness and good management; and for these purposes they shall have free access to the grounds, buildings and all books and papers relating to said institutions; and all persons now or hereafter connected with the same are hereby directed and required to give such information and aflord such facilities for inspection as the said commissioners may require; and any neglect or refusal on the part of any oflicer or person connected with such institutions to comply with any of the requirements of this act, shall subject the offender to a penalty of one hundred dollars, to be sued for and collected by the general agent, in the name of the board. Section 6. The said commissioners, by themselves or their general agent, are hereby authorized and required, at least once in each year, to visit all the charitable and Correctional insti- tutions of the State receiving State aid, and ascertain whether the moneys appropriated for their aid are or have been econom- ically and judiciously expended; whether the objects of the several institutions are accomplished; whether the laws in re- lation to them are fully complied with; whether all parts of the State are equally benefited by them, and the various other matters referred to in the fifth section of this act; and in their annual report to the legislature, to embody the result of their investigations, together with such other information and rec;- ommendations as they may deem proper. Section 7. The said board shall also require their general agent, at least once inevery two years, to visit and examine into the condition of each of the city and county jails or prisons and alms or poor houses, and shall possess all the powers relative thereto, mentioned in the fifth section of this act, and shall report to the legislature the result of the examination, in connection with the annual report authorized by this act. Section 8. It shall be the duty of all persons having charge or oversight over the poo-r in any city or county of this State, or in any sub—division thereof, and all persons having charge or control of county jails or prisons or work-houses, and of all other persons having charge or control over any other charita— ble, reformatory or correctional institution, not now by law re- quired to make an annual report of the condition of the same, to make report, annually, to the said general agent, at such a Mt RELATING TO CHILDREN. 47 time and in such manner as he shall prescribe, of such facts and statements concerning the same as he may require; and all charitable, .reformatory and correctional institutions now re- quired by law to make annual reports, shall hereafter make and transmit the same to the said general agent on or before the first dayof January in each year; and all such institutions now re- ceiving ‘or that may hereafter desire to receive State aid, shall annually give notice to the said general agent, on or before the first day of November in each year, of the amount of any application for State aid they may propose to make, and of the several purposes to which such aid, if granted, is to be applied. Section 9. Whenever any such institution shall thus give notice of asking for State aid, the general agent shall inquire carefully into the ground of such request, the purpose or pur- poses for which the aid is asked, the amount which will be required, and into any matters connected therewith; and in the annual report the result of such inquiries shall be given, together with the opinions and conclusions of the board thereon. Section 10. The several members: of said board are each hereby authorized to administer oaths in examining any person or persons, relative to any matters connected with the inquiries authorized by this act. . Section 11. No member of said board shall be interested directly or indirectly in any contract for building, repairing or furnishing any institution, which by this act they or any one of them are authorized to visitor inspect; nor shall any trustee or other officer of any of the institutions embraced in this act, be eligible to the oflice of commissioner or general agent hereby created. Section 12. The board of public charities shall annually prepare and print, for the use of the legislature, a full and complete report of all their doings during the year preceding, stating fully in detail all expenses incurred, all officers and agents employed, with a report of the general agent and secretary, embracing all the respective proceedings and ex- penses during the year, and showing the actual conditions of all charitable and correctional institutions within the State, with such suggestions as the board may deem necessary and per- tinent; and the- said general agent and secretary is hereby au- ' .thorized to prepare the necessary blanks and forward the same, in good season, to all institutions from whom information or re- turns may be needed, and to require a prompt return of the same, with the blanks properly filled. Notice of applica- tion for State aid. General agent to make inquiries. Commissioners may administer oaths. Commissioners not to be interested in contracts. Shall make up annual report. May appoint corresponding secretary. Visitation, inspec~ tion and super- vision by Board of Public Chari- ties. Information a nd statistics for Judges. Annual report to Board of Public Charities. Statement of re- ceipts and dis- bursements. List of institu- tions to be filed with court. 4-8 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. Section 13. The said board may at its discretion, if the general agent shall be unable by press of duties to conduct the correspondence of the board, appoint a corresponding secretary, at- a salary not exceeding one thousand dollars per annum, who shall conduct the correspondence of the board. and perform such ' other clerical duties as may be required of him. INSPECTION BY BOARD OF PUBLIC CHARITIES ACT 5TH MARCH, 1903 (P. L. 11). AN ACT Relating to institutions, associations, and societies having the care of delinquent, neglected or dependent children. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the institutions, associa— , tions, and societies, into whose care the custody of delinquent, neglected or dependent children may be committed by order of the courts of this Commonwealth, shall be subject to the same visitation, inspections, and supervision of the Board of Public Charities as the public charitable institutions of this State; and the courts of common pleas of this Commonwealth may require such information and statistics from such institu— tions, associations or societies as said judges deem necessary. in order to enable them to exercise a wise discretion in dealing with children. Every such institution, association or society shall file with the Board of Public Charities an annual written or printed report, which shall contain a statement of the number of children cared for during the year, the number received, the number placed in homes, the number died, the number returned to friends ; also, a financial statement, showing the receipts and disbursements of such institutions. associations or societies. The statement of receipts shall indicate the amount received from public funds, the amount received from donations, and the amount received from other sources, specifying the several sources. The statement of disbursements shall show the amount expended for salaries and other expenses, specifying the same; the anfount expended for lands, buildings and investments. The secretary of the Board of Public Charities shall furnish to each of the said courts of common pleas a list of such institutions, associations. and societies filing such annual reports, and no child shall be committed to the care of any such institution, association. or society which shall not have filed a report, for (3517; m.“ RELATING TO CHILDREN. 49 the fiscal year last preceding, with the Board of Public Charities. BOARDS OF VISITATICN ACT 26TH FEBRUARY, 1903 (P. L. 8). AN ACT Providing for the appointment of boards of visitation for institutions, . societies, and associations caring for dependent, neglected and delin- quent children. Section 1. ie it enacted, &c., That it shall be the duty of the court of common pleas in each county within this Com- monwealth to appoint a board, consisting of six or more reput— able citizens, who shall serve without compensation, to consti— tute a board of visitation, whose duty it shall be to visit as often as once a year all institutions, societies. and associations into whose care and custody dependent, neglected or delinquent children shall be committed under the provisions of the laws of this Commonwealth. Said visit shall. be made by not less than two of the members of the board, who shall go together, and make a joint report. The said board of visitation shall make report to the court, from time to time, of the treatment the children receive by or in the charge of such institutions, societies, and associations; and shall make an annual report to the Board of Public Charities, in such form as the board may prescribe. The said board of visitation shall be entitled to receive from the county in which they shall be appointed, such sum or sums of money for actual and necessary expenses as may be approved by the board of county commissioners. MINES CHILD LABOR ACT ACT 1ST MAY. 1909 (P. L. 375), AS AMENDED 13v ACT 1s'r JUNE, 1911,, AND 15TH JUNE, 1911. AN ACT To provide for the health and safety of minors in bituminous coal ‘mines and anthracite collieries or breakers, by regulating the ages at which said minors may be employed, their hours of employment, and to prescribe rules for the obtaining of employment certificates, and providing penalties for violation of the provisions thereof. . Section 1. Be it enacted, &c.,That from and after the pas— sage of this act, no minor under the age of fourteen years shall Duty of court. Board of Visit- ation. Report to court. Report to Board of Public Charities. Compensation for actual and necessary ex- penses. Child labor. Minors under six- teen years. Hours of employ- ment. 50 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in, about, or for any coal breaker, or washery, or in, or about, the outside work- ings of any coal mine. Section 2. That no minor under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in or about or for any establishment or industry named in section one of this act, for a longer period than ten hours in any one day, except when a different apportionment of the hours of labor is made for the sole purpose of making a shorter work—day for one day in the week; nor shall a less period than thirty minutes be allowed for the midday meal; and in no case shall the hours of labor exceed fifty—eight in any one week. No minor under the age of sixteen years shall be employed or permitted to work between the hours of nine post meridian and six ante meridian. Section 3. That no minor under the ageof sixteen years shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work inside any coal mine, and no minor under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in, or about, or for, any establishment or industry named in section one of this act, unless the employer of said minor procures and keeps on file and accessible-to the mine inspector the employment certificate, as hereinafter provided, issued to said minor, and keeps two complete lists of all minors under the age of sixteen years employed in or for his or her establishment, one of said lists to be kept on file in the office of the employer, and one to be conspicuously posted in each of the several departments in or for which minors are employed. ~ Said employment certificate, when issued, shall be the property of the minor named therein, who shall be entitled to a sur- render of said certificate to him or her by the employer when- ever said minor shall leave the service of any employer holding said certificate. In case a minor who is employed or permitted to work in, or about, or for, any establishment or industry named in section one of this act as being sixteen years of age or over, appears to the Chief of the Department of Mines, or any mine inspector, to be under the age of sixteen years, said Chief of the Department of Mines, or mine inspector, shall make written demand that the employer of said minor shall procure and keep on file in the office of such establishment, subject to inspection, the same evidence that said minor is in fact sixteen years of age or over as is required as evidence of age for the 1ssuance of the employment certificates: hereinafter . provided for, and the employer furnishing such evidence shall RELATING TO CHILDREN. 51 not be required to furnish any further evidence of the age of said minor. In case the evidence of age, for which demand is so made, be not filed, as hereinbefore required, within thirty days after said demand, the employer shall cease to employ the minor named in said demand, or to permit said minor to work. Provided, however, That said employer, by thus ceasing to employ or permit said minor to work, shall not be relieved from any of the penalties provided in this act fer the employment of a minor under the age of sixteen years without the filing for such minor of the employment certificate hereinbefore re quired. Section 4. The employment certificates required by the provisions of this act shall be issued as follows: In school districts having a district superintendent or super-— vising principal, by such superintendent or supervising prin— cipal; in school districts having no superintendent or super— vising principal, but having one or more principals of schools, by such principals, each principal to issue the certificate to minors residing within the territory belonging to the school over which he has supervision; in school districts, or parts of districts, having no district superintendent or principal, by the secretary of the board of school directors for that district: Pro- vided, That any district superintendent, supervising principal of schools, or secretary of the board of school directors, hereby directed to issue such certificates, may authorize and deputize, in writing, such persons as they may see proper, to act in their place and stead for the purpose of issuing such certificates. Any of the hereinbefore mentioned officials, authorized to issue employment certificates, before doing so shall demand, and if possible obtain, a birth certificate, or baptismal certificate, or passport or any other official or religious record of the minor’ s age, or duly attested transcript thereof; or, in the event that none of these is obtainable, may- accept, in lieu thereof, "the record age as given on the register of a school the minor has attended; or, in the absence of such record, may accept the afiidavit of the minor’s parent, guardian, or other person, which affidavit he is empowered to administer: Provided, That the powers and duties conferred by this section on the superin— tendents, supervising principals, principal or secretary of a board of school directors be, and the same are, conferred upon superintendents, supervising principals, principal, teachers, or secretaries of any private academy, parochial or denominational schools, in all cases where the applicant. for an employment By whom certifi~ cate may be . issued. Proviso. Birth certificate, etc. Record age. Proviso. Proviso. Printing and dis- tribution of blank certificatts. Violations. Penalty. ‘ 52 ACT S OF ASSEMBLY. certificate is, or recently has been, an attendant pupil in a private academy, parochial or denominational school, and is not a pupil in a public school: And provided further, That whenever in any school district an employment certificate is issued by any persons other than the public school official here- inbefore directed to issue such certificates in said district, said persons shall, on or before the third day of each month, file with the aforementioned public school official, in said district, true copies of all employment certificates so issued. Section 5. The employment certificate provided by this act for the use of a minor between fourteen and Sixteen years of age shall be in the following form 2—— This certifies that (name and residence of minor) is aged ........... years months dayS; whose complexion is ........... , hair is ........... , and eyes are ........... , is able to read and write the Engllsh language intelligently, and may be employed at labor in any coal breaker, washery) or other outside workings of a coal mine. This certificate is a legal warrant for the employment of the minor hereon, in any of the above named establishments and industries, under the provisions of an act approved .................. one thousand nine hundred and nine as amended by an act approved .................. one thou— sand nine hundred and eleven. , (Signature of person who issued certificate, official title and official address.) (Signature of minor to whom issued.) .......... (Date) Section 6. The blank employment certificate shall be pre— pared by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in accord— ance with the form prescribed in this act; the same to be printed in accordance with the laws regulating printing and binding, under the supervision of the Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall also supply the aforesaid certificates to all persons authorized to issue the same. Section 7. Any person or persons violating any of the pro- visions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished, for a first offense, by a fine of not less than ten dollars or more than twenty-five dol- lars, or ten days’ imprisonment in the county jail, or either or both, at the discretion of the court; and, for a second offense, shall be punished by a fine of not more than’fifty dollars, and RELATING TO CHILDREN. 53 ninety days’ imprisonment in a county jail, or either or both, at the discretion of the court. It shall be the duty of the Chief of the Department of Mines féiforcement of to carry out the provisions of this act, and prosecutions for vio- ° lations thereof shall be instituted either by the Chief of the Department of Mines. Section 8. All fines imposed and collected for any violation of this act shall be forwarded to the Chief of the Department of Mines, who shall pay the same into the office of the State Treasurer, for the use of the Commonwealth. Section 9. This act shall be in force and effect on and after Act to take effect January first, one thousand nine hundred and ten. January 1’ 1910' Section 10. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby, re- Repeal. pealed. Fines. FACTORY ACT ACT 21) MAY, 1905 (I). L. 352), AS AMENDED BY ACT 29TH APRIL, 1909 (P. L. 283). AN ACT To regulate the employment, in all kinds of industrial establishments, of women by fixing the hours of labor for women; to provide for the safety of all emp‘loyes in all industrial establishments, and of men, women and children in schoolhouses, academies, seminaries, colleges, hotels, hospitals, store-houses, office buildings, public halls and places of amusements, in which ,proper fire—escapes, exits and ‘~ extinguishers are required; to provide for the health of all employes, and of men, women and children in all such establishments, store- houses and buildings by proper sanitary appliances; and to provide for the appointment of inspectors, office clerks and others, who, with the Chief Factory Inspector, shall constitute the Department of Factory Inspection, to enforce the same, and providing penalties for violations of the provisions thereof; fixing the term and salaries of the Chief Factory Inspector and his appointees. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That the term “establishment” “Establishment” where used for the purpOSe of this act, shall mean any place “O“Stmed' within this Commonwealth other than where domestic, coal— mining or farm labor is employed ; where men, women or chil— dren are engaged, and paid a salary or wages, by any person, firm or corporation, and where such men, women or children are employes, in the general acceptance of the term. ' Section 2. No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed in any establishment. Seats for girls and adult women. Copy of factory laws to be posted. 54 ACTS OF 1\SSIC.\llll.Y. Section 3. No female, eighteen years of age 01 over, shall be employed in any establishment f01 a longer period than sixty hours in any one week nor for a longei period than twelve hours in any one day. (Sections 3 (in part), 4, 5 and G repealed.) Section 7. Every person, firm or co-rporatiOn employing girls or adult women, in any establishment, shall provide suitable seats for their use, and shall permit such use when the em— ployes are not necessarily engaged in active duties. Section 8. Every person, firm or corporation employing males and females in the same establishment, shall provide for such employes suitable and proper wash and dressing-rooms, and water—closets for males and females and the water—closets, wash and dressing rooms used by females shall not adjoin those used by males, but shall be built entirely away from them, and shall be properly screened and ventilated ; and all water-closets shall at all times be kept in a clean and sanitary condition. Section 9. Not less than one hour shall be allowed for the noonday meal in any establishment. But the chief factory in- specto1 may, f01 good cause, reduce the time fo1 the noonday meal in establishments wheie all the othe1 provisions of this act a1e obseived, which entail duties upon the part of employers. Section 10. Every pe1son,fi11n or corporation employing men, women or children, in any establishment, shall post and keep posted in a conspicuous place, in every room where such help is employed, a printed copy of the factory laws, a printed notice stating the number of hours per day for each day of the week required of such persons; and in every room where children under sixteen years of age are employed, a list of their names, with their ages. Section 11. The owner or person in charge of an establish- ment where machinery is used shall provide belt shifters or other mechanical contrivances for the purpose of throwing on or off belts or pulleys. Whenever practicable, all machinery shall be provided with loose pulleys. All vats, pans, saws, planers, cogs, gearing, belting, shafting, set-screws, grindstones, emery—wheels, fly-wheels, and machinery of every description shall be properly guarded. The floor space of no working-room in any establishment shall be so crowded with machinery as thereby to cause risk to the life or limb of an employe, nor shall there be in any establishment machinery in excess of the sustaining power of the floors and walls thereof. No perSOn shall remove or make ineffective any safeguard around or at- RELATING TO CHILDREN. 5 ~' tached to machinery, vats or pans while the same are in use, except for the purpose of immediately making repairs thereto, and all such safeguards so removed shall be properly replaced. Exhaust fans of sufficient power, or other sufficient devices, shall be provided for the purpose of carrying off poisonous fumes and gases, and dust from emery-wheels, grindstones and other machinery creating dust. If a machine or any part thereof is in a dangerous condition, or is not properly guarded, the use .thereof may be prohibited by the chief factory inspector or by his deputy, and a notice to that effect shall be attached thereto. Such notice shall not be removed until the machinery is made safe and the required safeguards are provided, and in the mean— time such unsafe or dangerous machinery shall not be used. Section 12. The owner, agent, lessee, superintendent, or other person having charge or managerial control of any estab lishment, hotel, hospital, apartment house or other building, where elevators, hoisting-shafts, lifts or well-holes are used, shall cause the same .to be properly and substantially enclosed, secured or guarded and shall provide such proper traps or automatic doors, so fastened in or at all elevatorways, except elevators enclosed on all. sides, as to form a substantial surface when closed, and so constructed as to open and close by action of the elevator in its passage, either ascending‘ or descending. The ' cable, gearing or other apparatus of elevators, hoisters or lifts. shall be kept in a safe condition: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to cities of the first and second classes. Section 13. The owner, agent, lessee, or other person having charge or managerial control of any establishment, shall pro- . vide or cause to be provided not less than two hundred. and fifty cubit feet of air space for each and every person in every work- rOOm in said establishment, where persons are employed, and shall provide that all work—rooms, halls and stairways in said establishment be kept in a clean and sanitary condition and properly lighted. Section 14. No person, firm or corporation engaged in the manufacture or sale of clothing or other wearing apparel, cigars or cigarettes, shall bargain or contract with any person, firm . or corporation for the manufacture, or partial manufacture, of any of said articles or goods where the same are to be made in any kitchen, living-room or bed—room in any tenement-house or dwelling-house, except where the persons bargaining or con— tracting to make or partially make any of the aforesaid articles 5 G ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. or goods are resident members of the family, residing in such tenement—house or dwelling-house where the said articles or goods are to be made or partially made, and who have furnished the person, firm or corporation engaged in the manufacture or sale of said articles or goods, and with whom the bargain or contract is to be made, a certificate from the board of health, of the city or town in which such tenement-house or dwelling- house is situated, that the same is free from any infectious or contagious disease; which certificate may be revoked by the board of health whenever the exigencies of the case shall re- 0311111333 quire: Provided, That the term “family” in this section shall include only the parents and their children, or the children of either. Section 15. No person, firm or corporation engaged in the manufacture or sale of any of the articles or goods enumerated in section fourteen of this act, shall bargain or contract with any person, firm or corporation for the manufacture, or partial manufacture, of any of the said articles or goods in any work— shop, not part of a tenement or dwelling—house, unless the said workshop shall have been inspected by the chieffactory in- spector or by one of his deputies, and who shall have issued a printed permit to the person in charge of such workshop, stating that the same is in a clean and safe and sanitary con— dition, and fixing the maximum limit to the number of persons who may be employed therein; the permit to be posted and kept posted in a conspicuous place in such workshop: Provided, That this section shall not apply to any workshop wherein the afore— said articles or goods are manufactured for the general trade, and are to be sold and delivered in or upon the premises, and are not manufactured, or partially manufactured, under a bar— gain or contract with any person, firm or corporation employed in the manufacture and sale of the article aforesaid. Section 16. ‘Vhenever the sanitary conditions of any work— shop, as defincd in section fifteen, is dangerous to the health and safety of the employes therein or to the public, the chief factory inspector or his deputy shall cancel the permit aforesaid, and shall order that the workshop be vacated until the provisions of this act shall have been complied with and the workshop restored to proper sanitary condition. Section 17. All persons, firms and corporations engaged in the manufacture or baking of bread, cakes, crackers, pastry, pretzels or macaroni, for public sale, shall keep their'room or rooms for baking, mixmg, storing, or sale of flour or other grain RELATING TO CHILDREN. 57 products separate and apart from any sleeping—room, water— closet, urinal, defective drain or sewer pipe, and shall not per— mit the harboring of any domestic animal theiein. The fi001s of all baking, n1ixi11g,stori11g and salesrooms shall be kept clean and tightly joined and free from crevices, and the walls and ceilings shall be painted, kalsomined o1 whitewashed as often as twice in each year, and oftener if, in the opinion of the chief factory inspector or his deputy, the safety of the employes or the public shall require. Section 18. V'Vhen the foregoing provisions of section seven— teen are complied with, the chief factory inspector or his deputy shall issue to the owner or person in charge of such bakeshop a pe1mit stating that the same is in a clean and sani- taiy condition, which permit shall be posted and kept posted in the office or sale31oom of the bakeshop, af01esaid; but when any of the fo1egoing p1ovisions of section seventeen ale not being complied with in any bakeshop, the chief factory inspector or his deputy shall issue to the person in charge, or his repre— sentatives, a written order to comply with the law aforesaid, within ten days; or he may order the closing of any Such bake— shop until the order shall have been complied with, should the safety of the employes or the public, in his opinion, so require. Section 19. All boilers used for generating steam or heat in any establishment shall be kept in good order, and the owner, agent or lessee of such establishment shall have said boilers inspected by a casualty company in which said boilers are i11— sured, or by any other competent person approved by the chief factory inspector, once in twelve months, and shall file a cer— tificate showing the result thereof, in the office of such estab— lishment, and shall send a duplicate thereof to the Department of Factory Inspection. Each boiler or nest of boilers used for generating steam or heat in any establishment shall be provided with a proper safety—valve and with steam and water-gauges. to show, respectively, the pressure of steam and the height of water in the boilers. Every boiler-house, in which a boiler or nest of boilers is placed, shall be provided with a steam-gauge properly connected with the boilers, and another steam-gauge shall be attached to the steam pipe in the engine house, and so placed that the engineer or fireman can readily ascertain the pressure carried. Nothing in this section shall apply to boilers which are regularly inspected by competent inspectors, acting under local laws and ordinances. Section 20. It shall be the duty of the owner or superin- 58 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. tendent of any establishment to report, in writing, to the chief factory inspector every serious accident or serious injury done to any person in his or her employ, where such accident or serious injury occurred in or about the premises where em— ployed, within twenty-four hours after the accident or injury occurs, stating as fully as possible the cause of such accident or injury; and in all fatal and serious accidents the chief factory inspector or his deputy may subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, and do whatever may be necessary in order to make a thorough and complete investigation of the same: Provided, however, That the provisions of this section shall not be con- structed as interfering with the duties of coroner's, under exist- ing laws. Section 21. It shall be the duty of the owner, superintendent, assistant or person in charge of any establishment to furnish, from time to time, to the chief factory inspector or his deputy any information required by the provisions of this act, and the chief factory inspector and his deputies shall have authority to inspect any such establishment, at any time, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this act. Section 22. That wherever the law makes it the duty of the owner, lessee, or other person in charge of any building, or room or rooms in any building, to erect and maintain fire—escapes, or appliances for the extinguishment of fire, or for proper and sufficient exits in case of fire or panic, the chief factory in- spector or his deputy shall inspect all said buildings, or the room or rooms in said buildings, and notify the owners, lessees, or other persons in charge of same, to comply with said law. And all fire—escapes, exits and fire extinguishing appliances shall be provided and located by order of the chief factory inspector or his deputy, and shall be subject. to the approval of the chief factory inspector or his deputy: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to cities of the first and second classes. Section 93. Any person who violates any of the provisions ‘ of the foregoing sections of this act, or who suffers any female, minor or a child to be employed in or about his or her estab— lishment, in violation. of any of the provisions of the foregoing sectionsof this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty—five dollars and more than five hundred dollars, or an imprisonment in the county jail for a term not less than ten days nor more than sixty days, for each and every such viola- RELATING TO CHILDREN. 59 tion. In all cases the prosecution shall be instituted, in the name of the Commonwealth, by the deputy factory inspector of the district where the offense is alleged to have been committed, and the hearing shall be conducted by the alderman, justice of the peace or other committing magistrate before whom the in— formation is lodged. After full hearing of the parties in in- terest, the alderman, justice of the peace or other committing magistrate shall, if the evidence warrants it, impose the penalty herein-provided, which shall be final to the party against whom the penalty is imposed, unless the party upon whom the penalty is imposed shall furnish goo-d and sufficient bail for his or her appearance at the next term of the court of quarter sessions of the county wherein the offense is alleged to have been com— mitted. Section 24. ‘ All fines imposed and collected for any viola— tion of this act shall be forwarded to the chief of the Depart- ment of Factory Inspection, who shall pay the same into the office of the State treasurer, for the use of the Commonwealth. Section 25. The chief factory inspector shall prepare the form of permits, blank orders and notices required by this act: the same to‘be printed in accordance with the laws regulating printing and publishing, under the supervision of the superin— tendent of public printing and binding. He shall also divide ' the State into inspection districts,‘ and assign one of the deputy factory inspectors to each district, and may transfer any of the said inspectors from one district to another, and make such rules and regulations governing their employment as the best interests of the service shall require. Section 26. After the first day of January in each year, the chief factory inspector shall compile or cause to be compiled a succinct statistical narrative report, to be addressed to the Governor of the Commonwealth, of the work of his department for the year ending December 31st. \ Section 27. To more effectually secure the observance of the provisions of this act and the fire—escape laws, the Governor shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Sen— ate, a chief factory inspector, for a term of four years, at a salary of five thousand dollars per annum; and who shall ap- point a chief clerk at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum; a statistician, at a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum; an assistant clerk, at a salary of fourteen hundred dollars per, annum; a messenger, who shall be a typewriter, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars per annum, and thirty- Minors under the are of eighteen years. Male minors over eighteen years. Minors under eighteen years. 60 ACTS or ASSEMBLY. nine deputy factory inspectors, five of whom shall be women, at a salary of twelve, hundred dollars each, per annum, and their necessary traveling expenses; the chief factory inspector and his appointees, aforesaid, to constitute the Department of Factory Inspection. Section 28. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. CHILD LABOR ACT ‘ACT 29TH APRIL, 1909 (P. L. 283), AS AMENDED 9TH JUNE, 1911. AN ACT To provide for the health and safety of. minors in certain employments, by regulating the ages at which said minors may be employed, their hours of employment. their protection against injury, and to pre— scribe rules for the obtaining of employment certificates, and pro— viding penalties for violation of the provisions thereof. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the pas— sage of this act, no minor under the age of eighteen years. except as hereinafter provided, shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work, in, about, or for any factory, workshop. rolling—mill, sawmill. quarry, laundry, store; mercantile, print— ing, or binding establishment; dock, wharf; vessel or boat en— gaged in lake or river navigation or commerce, railroad, in the erection or repair of electric wires, business office; telegraph office, telephone ofiice, stable, garage, hotel, restaurant, boot— black—stand, or the transmission of newspapers, messages, or merchandise. Section 2. That male minors over the age of eighteen years may be employed in any and all kinds of legal employment- within the Commonwealth; but minors under the age of eighteen years shall not be employed in or about blast—furnaces. docks, wharves, quarries; in the outside erection and repair of electric wires; in the running or management of elevators, lifts. or hoisting machines; in oiling hazardous and dangerous ma— chinery, in motion; at switch—tending, gate—tending, track— repairing; as brakemen, firemen, engineers, motormen, con- ductors, upon railroads; as pilots, fireman, or engineers upon boats or vessels engaged in the transportation of passengers or merchandise; in or about establishments wherein nitroglycerine. RELATING TO CHILDREN. 61 dynamite, dualin, guncotton, gunpowder, or other high or dangerous explosive, is manufactured, compounded or stored. Section 3. That minors over the age of sixteen years may be employed in or about establishments for the manufacture or preparation of white-lead, red-lead, paints, phosphorus, phos— phorous matches, poisonous acids, or for the manufacture or stripping of tobacco or cigars: Provided, That where it- is proved to the satisfaction of the chief factory inspector that the danger or menace to the health or safety of minors em— ployed in any establishment or industry named in this section has been removed, or that employment in some part or parts of said industry is not dangerous, or a menace to the health or safety of minors employed therein, that in such case minors under the age of sixteen years, and not under the age of four— teen years, who can read and write the English language intelli— gently, and are physically qualified, may be therein employed. Section 4. That minors over the age of fourteen years, who can read and write the English language intelligently, and are physically qualified, may be employed in 'or for mercantile establishments, stores; teleg~aph, telephone, or other business offices; hotels, restaurants; or in any factory, workshop, rolling— mills, or other establishment having proper sanitation; or in any factory, workshop, rolling—mills, or other establishment having proper sanitation and proper ventilation, and in which power machinery is not used, or, if used, that the same, and all other dangerous appliances used, are kept securely and properly safe—guarded; rules and regulations for the same to be prescribed and provided by the chief factory inspector. Section 5. That no male minor under the age of sixteen years, and no female under the age of eighteen years, shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work, in or about or for any establishment, place of business, or industry, named in sections three and four of this act, for a longer period than ten hours in any one day, except when a difierent apportionment. of the hours of labor is made for the sole purpose of making a shorter workday for one day in the week; nor shall a less period than forty-five minutes be allowed for the midday meal; and in no case shall the hours of labor exceed fifty-eight in any one week. No male minor under the age of sixteen years, and no female under the age of eighteen years, shall be employed or permitted to work between the hours of nine post meridian and six ante meridian. Section 6. That where the usual process of manufacture, or Minors over sixteen years. Under sixteen, years and not under fourteen years. Minors over fourteen years. Hours of employment. '62 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. the nature of the business named in section four of this act, is Day and night of a kind that customarily necessitates a continuous day and employment night employment, male minors, not under the age of fourteen years, may be employed day or night, or partly by day and partly. by night; but said employment shall not exceed nine hours during any twenty-four hours for minors under the age of sixteen years. A violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed to be in contravention of this act. Section 7. That no minor under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in or about or for any establishment or in- dustry named in sections three and four of this act, unless the employer of said minor p-rocures and keeps on file, and access- Certificate. ible to the deputy factory inspectors, the employment certificate as hereinafter provided, issued to said minor, and keeps two complete lists of all minors under the age of sixteen years em— ployed in or for his or her establishment; one of said lists to be kept on file in the office of the employer, and one to be con— spicuously posted in each of the several departments in or for which minors are employed. Said employment certificate, when issued, shall be the property of the minor named therein, who shall be entitled to a surrender of said certificate, to him or her by the employer whenever said minor shall leave the service of any employer holding said certificate. Section 8. The employment certificate required by the pro— visions of this act shall be issued as follows :——~ Employment In school districts having a district superintendent or super- Certificates. vising principal, by such superintendent or supervising prin- cipal; in school districts having no superintendent or super— vising principal, but having one or more principals of Schools, by such principals, each principal to issue the certificate to minors residing within the territory belonging to the school over which he has supervision; in school districtS, or parts of 5 districts, having no district superintendent or principal, by the ’ secretary of the board of school directors for that district: Provided, That any district superintendent, supervising prin— . cipal, principal of schools, or secretary of the board of School 3? directors, hereby directed to issue such certificates, may author— ize and dep-utize, in writing, such persons as they may see proper to act in their place and stead for the purpose of issuing such certificates. Any of the hereinbefore mentioned officials, authorized to issue employment certificates, before doing so shall demand, and if possible obtain, a birth certificate, or bap— tismal certificate, or passport, or other official or religious record RELATING TO- CHILDREN. 63 of the minor’s age, or a duly attested transcript thereof; and, in the event that none of these is obtainable, may accept, in lieu thereof, a record of the age as given on the register of a school the minor has attended; or, in the absence of such record, may accept the affidavit of the minor’s parent or guardian, or other person, which affidavit he is empowered to administer: Pro- vided, That the powers and duties conferred by this section on the superintendents, supervising principals, principal, or secre— tary of a board of school directors, be and the same are con— ferred upon superintendents, supervising principals, principal, teachers, or secretaries of any private academy, parochial or denominational school, in all cases where the applicant for an employment certificate is, or recently has been, an attendant pupil in a private academy, parochial or denominational school, and is not a pupil in a public school: And provided further, That whenever in any school district an employment certificate is issued by any persons other than the public school official hereinbefore directed to issue such certificates in said district, said persons shall, on or before the third day of each month, file with the aforementioned public school official, in said dis— trict, true copies of all employment certificates so issued. Section 9. The employment certificate provided by this act for the use of a minor between fourteen and sixteen years of age shall be in the following form :— This1certifies that (name and residence of minor) is aged ........ years . . . . . . . . months . . . . . . . .days; whose com- pleXion 1s ........ ,hair 1s ........ , and eyes a1e ........ ' is able to read and write the English language intelligently, and may be employed at labor in any of the following estab— lishments, businesses, and industries. The manufacture or the preparation of white —lead, red— lead, paints, phosphorus, phos- phorus matches, poisonous acids, tobacco or cigars, in which industries minors between fourteen and sixteen years of age may be employed, only when their labor is performed in such part or parts of such industries as are not dangerous or a menace to their health and safety—and mercantile establish- ments, sto1es; telephone, telegraph or other business offices; hotels, restaurants, or in any factory, workshop, or other estab— lishment having proper sanitation and proper ventilation, and in which power machinery is not used, or, if used, that the same, and all other dangerous appliances used, are kept securely and properly safeguarded. This certificate is a legal warrant for the employment of the Form of certificate. 64 ACTS OF A SSEMBLY. minor named hereon, in any of the above-named establish- ments, businesses, and industries, under the provisions of an act approved .......... one thousand nine hundred and nine. (Signature of person who issued certificate, official title and official address.) (Signature of minor to whom issued.) Section 10. The blank employment certificate shall be pre- pared by the superintendent of public instruction, in accord- ance with the form prescribed in: this act; the same to be printed in accordance with the laWs regulating printing and binding, under the supervision of the superintendent of public printing and binding. The superintendent of public instruc— tion shall also sup-ply the aforesaid certificates to all persons authorized to issue the same. Section 11. Any person or persons violating any of the pro- visions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished, for a first offense, by a fine of not less than ten dollars or more than twenty-five dol— lars, or ten days’ imprisonment in the county jail, or either or both, at the discretion of the court; and for a second offense, shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars, and ninety days’ imprisonment in a county jail, or either or both, at the discretion of the court. It shall be the duty of the chief factory inspector to carry out the provisions of this act, and prosecutions for violations thereof shall be instituted by the chief factory inspectors. Section 12. All fines imposed and collected for any viola- tion of this act shall be forwarded to the chief factory inspector, who shall pay the same into the oflice of the Statetreasurer, for the use of the Commonwealth. ‘ Section 13. This act shall be in force and effect on. and after January first, one thousand nine hundred and ten. Section 14. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with any . of the provisions of this act, be and the same are hereby re- pealed. RELATING TO CHILDREN. 65 EMPLOYMENT OE MINORS ACT 16TH MAY, 1901 (P. L. 220). AN ACT Regulating the employment of minor children for theatrical or athletic performances, singing exhibitions, or for playing upon musical in— stuments. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That any person, association, agency or corporation who shall take, receive, hire, employ, use or have in custody any child under the age of eighteen years, or who shall endeavor to secure by advertisement or otherwise, any such minor child for the vocation, occupation, calling, service or purpose of taking part in any theatrical per— formance, or athletic exhibition, or of singing, or of playing upon musical instruments, without the consent of the parents or legally appointed guardians of such child having been first obtained, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic— tion thereof before any justice of the peace, magistrate, or court of record, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars, and not more than one hundred dollars. And upon second convic- tion, shall be imprisoned not less than one year and not more . than three years. COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL ACT 18TH MAY, 1911. Section 1414. Every child having a legal residence in this Commonwealth, as herein provided, between the ages of eight and sixteen years, is required to attend a day school in which the common English branches provided for in this act are taught, and every parent, guardian or other person in this Commonwealth, having control or charge of any child or chil- dren between the ages of eight and sixteen years, is required to send such child or children to a day school in which the com— mon English branches are taught, and such child or children shall attend such school continuously through the entire term during which the public elementary schools in their respective districts shall be in session: Provided, That the certificate of any principal or teacher of a private school, or of any institu- tion for the education of children in which the common English Attendance of pupils. Children may be excused. All children to be enroll Dd. 66 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. branches ale taught, setting forth that the work of said school is in compliance with the provisions of this act, shall be suffi- cient and satisfactory evidence thereof. Regular daily instruc- tion in the English language for the time herein required, by a properly qualified private tutor, shall be considered as com- plying with the provisions of this section, if such instruction is satisfactory to the proper county or district superintendent of schools: Provided, further, That the board of school direc- tors in any district of the fourth class may, at a meeting held at any time before the opening of the school term, reduce the period of compulsory attendance to not less than seventy per centum of the school term, as fixed in such district, in which case, however, the board of school directors must, at the same time, fix the period for the compulsory attendance to begin. Section 1415. The board of school directors of any school district in this Commonwealth may, upon satisfactory evidence being furnished to it, showing that any child or children are prevented from attending school, or from application to study on account of any mental, physical or other urgent reasons, excuse such child or children from attending school as required by the provisions of this act, but the term “urgent reasons” shall be strictly construed and shall not permit of irregular attendance. Every principal or teacher in any public, private or other school may, for reasons enumerated above, excuse any child fo1 non—attendance during temporary periods. Section 1416. The provisions of this act requi1ing regular attendance shall not apply to any child between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years, who can read and write intelligently and is regularly engaged in any useful and lawful employment or service during the time the public schools are in session and who holds an employment certificate issued according to law. Section 1417. Every principal or teacher in every other than a public school, and in every institution for children, and every private teacher in every school district in this Commonwealth, shall immediately after their admission to such school or insti- tution, or at the beginning of such private teaching, furnish to the district superintendents, supervising principals or secre« taries of the boards of the school directors of the districts wherein the parents or guardians of such children reside, lists of the names and lesidences of all children between eight and sixteen years of age enrolled in such school or institution, or taught by such private teacher, and shall further 1eport at once to such district superintendent, supervising principal or secre— unit-AMA” u v RELATING TO CHILDREN. 67 tary of the board of school directo1s the name and date of withdrawal of any such pupil withdrawing from any such school or institution, or from such private instruction if such withdrawal occurs diiring the period of compuls01y. attendance in said district. And every principal or teache1 in a school other than a public school and e1 e1y private teacher shall also report at once to the superintendent, supervising principal or secretary of the board of school directors of the district, any such child who has been absent three days or their equivalent during the term of compulsory attendance without lawful excuse. Section 1418. In case there is no public school in session within two miles by the nearest traveled road of the residence of any child, such child shall be exempt from the provisions of this act relating to compulsory attendance unless proper free transportation be furnished to such child to and from school. Section 1419. Every person, firm, association or corporation in this Commonwealth accepting service from or employing a child 01 childien, between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years, during the hours when the public schools are in session, shall, on or before the first day of September in each year, and quarterly thereafter during the period of compulsory attend- ance, furnish to the superintendent of schools, supervising prin- cipal or secretary of the board of school directors of the district in which such child or children reside, the name, age, place of residence, and name of parent or guardian of every such child in his or its employ or service. Such reports shall be made ' upon blanks to be furnished by the superintendent of public instruction at the expense of the Commonwealth. Section 1420. Every person, firm, association or corpora— tion in this Commonwealth accepting service from or employ— ing a child or children, between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years, d111ing the hours when the public schools a1e in session and during the period of compulsory attendance 1n any school district, shall make a true and correct list of all such children giving thei1 names, ages, places of residence, names of parents 1 or guardians, the dates of and names of the persons issuing the employment certificates, and the time of beginning and ending of service with him or it, which list shall be clearly written 01 printed and kept publicly posted at the place of employment of such child, where the same may be inspected by any member of the board of school directors or the secretary thereof, by the district superintendent the s11pe1vising prin— Regulations as to employment at children. Penalty for child labor. Punishment for parents. 68 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. cipal or the attendance officer of any school district, at any time during business hours. Section 1421. No person in this Commonwealth, either for himself or for any firm, association or corporation, shall, dur- ing the term of compulsory attendance, as fixed by the board of school directors in any school district, and during the hours the public schools are in session, accept service from, engage or employ any child or children between eight and fourteen years of age, nor shall he accept service from, engage or employ any child or children between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years, unless such child shall first furnish and deliver to such em- ployer an employment certificate, issued according to law. Section 1422. Any person or persons accepting service from, or engaging, 01 employing any child between eight and £0111- teen years of age during the term of compulsmy attendance and while the public schools are in session, or accepting service from, engaging or employing any child during the same period of time between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years, without being first furnished by such child with an employment certifi— cate, or failing to furnish to the district supe1intendent of schools, supe1vising principal, attendance olficer or secretary of the board of school directors, the information required by this act concerning the children employed by him or them, or shall fail to post for inspection at the place of employment of such children the list of children engaged by him or them, as 1e- quired by the provisions of this 23act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be punished for a first offense by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) or more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), 0r ten days’ imprison— ment in the county jail, or either or both, at the discretion of the court, and for a subsequent offense shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars ($20.00), or more than fifty dollars ($50.00), or ninety days’ imprisonment in the county jail, either or both, at the discretion of the court. Section 1423. Every parent, guardian or person in pa1ental relation 1n this Commonwealth, having cont1ol or charge of any child or children between the ages of eight and sixteen years, who shall fail to comply with the p1ov isions of this act regard— ing compulsory attendance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, before any alderman, magistrate or justice of the peace shall be sentenced to pay a fine for the benefit of the school district in which such offending pe1son 1esides, not exceeding two dollars ($2. 00) 1501 the first offense RELATING TO CHILDREN. 69 and not exceeding five dollars ($5.00) for each succeeding ofiense, together with costs, and in default of the payment of such fine and costs by the person so ofiending, shall be sentenced to the county jail for a period not exceeding five days: Pro- vided, That any person sentenced to pay any such fine may, at any time within five days thereafter, appeal to the court of quarter sessions of the pro-per county, upon entering into a recognizance with one or more proper sureties in double the amount of penalty and costs: And provided, That before any proceedings are instituted against any parent, guardian or person in parental relation for failure to comply with the pro— visions of this act, such offending person shall have three days’ written notice given him by the superintendent of public schools, supervising principal, attendance officer or secretary of the board of school directors, of such violation, and if after such notice has been given the provisions of this act regarding com— pulsory attendance are again violated by the persons so notified at any time during the term of compulsory attendance, such person so again offending shall be liable under the provisions of this act without further notice. The provisions of this act regarding compulsory attendance shall not take effect until the first Monday of July, nineteen hundred and eleven (1911). Section 1424. \Vhenever the board of school directors or the attendance officer, superintendent, supervising principal or secretary of any board of school directors in this Common— wealth ascertains that any child, between eight and sixteen years of age, who is by the provisions of this act required to attend the public schools in the district over which such board of school directors has control, is unable to do so on account of lack of necessary clothing or food, such case shall be promptly reported to any suitable relief agency operating in the school district, or if there be no such suitable relief agency to which the case can be referred it shall be reported to the proper direc— tors or overseers of the poor for investigation and relief. Section 1425; The board of school directors in every school district in this Commonwealth shall, between April first and September first of each year, cause to be made by the attend- ance officers, teachers or other persons employed for this pur— pose, a careful, correct and accurate enumeration in a substan— tial book, or books, provided by the superintendent of public instruction, at the expense of the State for that purpose, of all the children between the ages of six and sixteen years, within Relief for desti- tute children. Enumeration of school children. Absentees to be looked up. Attendance officers. 7O \ ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. their district, giving the full name and date of birth, age, sex, nationality, place of residence in such school district, name and address of parent, or persons in parental relation, the name and location of the school where the child is enrolled or belongs, and the name and address of the employer of any child under sixteen years of age who is engaged in any regular employment or service. Such enumeration shall be made by careful inquiry at the residence of each family, in the district, and the person making the same, upon completion thereof, shall make a proper oath or affirmation as to its correctness. Such enumeration» shall also include the names and addresses of all persons, firms or corporations employing or accepting service from children under sixteen (16) years of age. Section 1428. It shall be the duty of every principal or teacher of a public school to report immediately to the attend— ance officer, superintendent of schools, supervising principal or secretary of the board of school directors, the names of all children in the list furnished to him who have not appeared ' for enrollment, and he shall also promptly report from time to time to the attendance officer, superintendent of schools, super- vising principal or secretary of the board of school directOrs, the names of all children who have been absent three days, or their equivalent, during the term of compulsory attendance, without lawful excuse. Such person shall thereupon serve upon the parent, guardian or other person in parental relation to such children the written notice hereinbefore provided, and if it shall appear that within three days thereafter any child, parent, guardian or other person in parental relation, shall have . failed to comply with the provisions of this act, the superin— tendent, supervising principal, attendance officer, or secretary of the board of school directors, in the name of the school . district, shall proceed against. the person so offending in accord— ance with the provisions of this act. - - Section 14-29. If, at any time after proceedings have been instituted against any person, under the provisions of this act, sufficient cause be shown by such offending person for non— compliance with its requirements, or if the cost of such pro— ceedings cannot be collected from such offending. persOn such costs may be paid out of the district funds upon a. proper voucher approved by the board of school directors. Section 1432. The board of school directors of every school districtin this Commonwealth, of the first, second or third class,.shall and in any school district of the fourth class may , ‘rrri RELATING TO CHILDREN. 71 employ one or more persons to be known as attendance officers, whose duties shall be to enforce the provisions of this act re— garding compulsory attendance. Such attendance officers shall, in addition to the duties imposed upon them by the provisions of this act, have full police power without warrant and may arrest or apprehend any child who fails to attend school in compliance with the provisions of this act, or Who is incor- rigible, insubordinate or disorderly during attendance at school, or on his way to or from school. . Section 1433. When an attendance officer arrests or appre~ hends any child who fails to attend school, as required by the provisions of this act, he shall promptly notify the parents, guardian or person in parental relation to such child, if such person can be found in the district, and unless requested by such parents, guardian or person in parental relation to place said child in a school other than a public school, he shall place — said child in the public school in which the child is or should be enrolled. ‘ Section 1434. Such attendance officer shall have full power and authority to enter during business hours any place where any children are employed, to ascertain whether or not any child is engaged therein that should attend school, as herein provided, and such attendance officer shall have the right to demand and inspect the employment certificate of any child engaged therein. Section 1435. Any officer, director, superintendent, man— ager, employe or other person, at any place where any child between fourteen and sixteen years of age is engaged, who re— fuses to permit, or in any way interferes with the entrance therein of the attendance officer, any member of the board of school directors, the secretary thereof, the district superintend— ent or supervising principal of any school district, -as pro— vided for in this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any magistrate, alderman or justice of the peace, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) or more than twenty—five dollars ($25.00) « in default of which he may be sentenced to imprisonment not exceeding thirty days: Provided, That any person sentenced to. pay any such fine may, upon giving proper surety in double the amount of penalty and costs at any time within five days thereafter appeal to the court of quarter sessions of the proper county. ' - Section 1438. In case any child between eight and sixteen Authority of attendance officers. ~ Incorrigible children. Apprentices who abscond liable to actiom for dam- ages after they become of age. When and how indentures may be assigned on the death of the master or mis- tress of an ap- prentice; or by him or her in his or her lifetime. 72 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. years of age cannot be kept in school, in compliance with the provisions of this act, on account of incorrigibility, truancy, insubordination or other bad conduct, or if the presence of any such child attending school is detrimental to the welfare of such school, on account of incorrigibility, truancy, insubordina- tion or other bad conduct, then in any such case the board of school directors of the proper district may, by its superin— tendent, supervising principal, secretary or attendance officer, under such rules and regulations as said board may adept, pro— ceed against said child before the juvenile court or otherwise, as is now or may hereafter be provided by law, for incorrigible, truant, insubordinate or delinquent children. REGULATION OF APPRENTIOES ACT 11TH APRIL, 1799. A supplement to the act, entitled “An act for the regulation of ap— prentices.” Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That, from and after the pass- ing of this act, if any apprentice shall absent himself or her- self from the service of his or her master or mistress, before the time of his or her apprenticeship shall be expired, without leave first obtained, every such apprentice, at any time after he or she arrives to the age of twenty-one years, shall be liable to, and the master or mistress, their heirs, executors or admin— istrators, are hereby enabled, to sustain all such actions and other remedies against him or her, as if the said apprentice had been of full age at the time of executing his or her in- denture of apprenticeship. Section 2. And be it further enacted by the authority afore- said, That when any master or mistress shall die, before the term of apprenticeship shall be expired, the executors or ad— ministrators of such master or mistress, provided the term of the indenture extended to executors and administrators, shall and may have a right to assign over the remainder of the term of such apprenticeship to such suitable person, of the same trade or calling mentioned in the indenture, as shall be ap- proved of by the court of quarter sessions of the county where the master or mistress lived, and the assignee to have the same right to the service of such apprentice, as the master or mistress had at the time of his or her death; and, also, when the master . or mistress shall assign over his or her apprentice to any tELATINGr TO CHILDREN. - 7 3 person, of the same trade or calling mentioned in the indenture, the said assignment shall be legal, provided the terms of the indenture extended to assigns, and provided the apprentice, or his or her parent or parents, or guardian or guardians, shall give his, her or their consent to such assignment, before some justice of the peace of the county where the master or mistress shall live. APPRENTICES PROTECTED ACT 28TH APRIL, 1876 (P. L. 52). AN ACT To protect the children of this Commonwealth in their right to acquire useful trades. Section 1. Be it enaCted, &c., That any person who shall, either in an individual capacity or as a member of any asso- ciation, attempt, by any unlawful means whatever, to prevent any mechanic, employer or person having charge of any manu— facturing business, from taking as an apprentice any minor whose parents or guardians are desirous of apprenticing said minor, or where such minor is without parents or guardians and desires to apprentice himself or herself, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in the proper court of quarter sessions, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceed- ing one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment not exceeding three months, or both or either, at the discretion of the court. Section 2. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act be and the same are hereby repealed. PROTECTION OF CHILDREN ACT 11TH JUNE, 1879 (P. L. 14.2). AN ACT To protect children from neglect and cruelty, and relating to their employment, protection and adoption. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That any person whatsoever who shall cruelly ill—treat, abuse or inflict unnecessary cruel punishment upon any infant or minor child, and any person having the care, custody or control of any minor child, who Penalties for preventing the apprenticing of minors. Cruel treatment of children to be punished. Punishment for employing minors at certain vocation. Or retaining them in brothels. For hiring them for purposes of mendicity. For employing them in dance- houses, or saloons where liquors sold. 74 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. shall willfully abandon or neglect the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, magistrate or court of record, shall be fined by such justice, magistrate or court of record, not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. Section 2. Any person having the care, custody or control of any minor child under the age of fifteen years, who shall in any manner sell, apprentice, give away or otherwise dispose of such child, and any person who shall take, receive or employ such child for the vocation or occupation of rope or wire walk— ing, or as an acrobat, gymnast, contortionist or rider, and any person who, having the care, custody or control of any minor child whatsoever, shall sell, apprentice, give away or otherwise dispose of such child, or who shall take, receive or employ such child, for any obscene, indecent or illegal exhibition or voca- tion injurious to the health Or dangerous to the life or limb of such child engaged therein, or for the purpose of prostitution, and any person who shall retain, harbor or employ any minor child in or about any assignation house or brothel, or in any place where any obscene, indecent or illegal exhibition takes place, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, magistrate or court of record, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each ofiense. Section 3. Any person having the care, custody or control, lawful or unlawful, for any minor child under the age of eighteen years, who shall use such minor 01 apprentice, give away, let out, hire or otherwise dispose of such minor, to any person, for the purpose of singing, playing on musical instru- ments, begging, or for any mendicant busineSs whatsOever, in the st1eets,roads or other highways of this Commonwealth, and whosoever shall take, receive, hire, employ, use or have in cus- tody, any such minor, for the vocation, occupation, calling. service or purpose of singing, playing upon musical instru— ments or begging, upon the streets, roads or other highways of the Commonwealth, or for any mendicant business whatevei shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in the manner pro ovided 1n the first section of this act, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. Section 4. Any person having the care, custody or control of any minor child under the age of fifteen years, who shall in any manner sell, apprentice, give away or permit such child to» RELATING TO CHILDREN. 75 sing, dance, act, or in any manner exhibit in any dance—house ' whatever, or in any concert—saloon, theatre or place of enter— tainment, where wines or spirituous or malt liquors are sold or given away, or with which any place for the sale of wines or spirituous or malt liquors is directly or indirectly connected by any passageway or entrance, and any proprietor of any dance-house whatever, or any such concert—saloon, theatre or place of entertainment, so employing any such child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in the manner provided in the first section of this act, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. Section 5. Any person who shall take, receive, hire or em- ploy any child under twelve years of age in any underground works or mine, or like place whatsoever, shall be, guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in the manner pro- vided in the first section of this act, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars. Section 6. Whenever any person shall, before a magistrate or justice of the peace, make oath or affirmation that the afliant believes that this act has been or is being violated in any place or house, such justice or magistrate shall forthwith issue a warrant to a constable or other authorized officer, to enter such place or house and investigate the same; and such person may arrest or cause to be arrested all ofienders, and bring them before any justice, magistrate or court of record for a hearing of the case; and it shall be the duty of all constables and police- men to aid in bringing all such offenders before said authorities for a hearing. Section 7. Whenever any person having the custody or con- trol of any minor, shall be convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this act, it shall be lawful for any person to apply to the orphans’ court of the county wherein the offense has been committed, for the appointment of a proper guardian for the person of such minor, and the said court may, in its discretion, make such appointment, having due regard in the ‘ selection of a guardian to the religious persuasion of the parent or former guardian, or it may place such child in an asylum or home for children, with the powers of a guardian of the person as may be most expedient: Provided, however, That the children of Roman Catholic parents shall be placed in asylums under the control and care of that denomination; and the said court may order the parent to pay such a reasonable sum For hiring them to work under- ground. Proceedings for violation of act. Orphans’ Court may appoint guardians. And order payment of maintenance. Remand to cus- tody of parents if competent to care for children. Humane societies may have persons commissioned to make arrests. When minors may be committed to care of such societies. 7G ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. towards the maintenance of such child, and at such times and in such amounts, as the said court may see fit; and such courts may at any subsequent time, upon being satisfied that the parent has become a fit person to resume the custody of said minor, and upon reasonable security to be fixed by the court being given for the faithful observance of the provisions of this act, remand such minor to the custody of such parent, subject nevertheless to the obligation of any indentures or legal engage- ments already entered into on behalf of said minor by his or her guardian. Section 8. Any duly organized or incorporated humane so- ciety, having for one of its objects the protectiOn of children from cruelty, may offer any agents or officers employed by them to the mayor of any city of the first, second, third, fourth or fifth class, for the purpose of being commissioned to act as police officers through the limits of said city, for the purpose of arresting all the offenders against this act, or any of the provisions thereof; whereupon the mayor in such city shall, if such persons are'proper and discreet persons, commission them to act as such police officers, with all the rights and powers appertaining thereto; but no such city shall be liable in any way for the salary or wages of such officers or for any expense whatever in relation thereto, except for the detention of pris— oners; and in any district or township not incorporated, such humane society may offer similarly qualified persons to the court of common pleas of the county, whereupon such court or any judge thereof shall, if they be fit persons, commission such persons to act as constables, with power to arrest all offenders against this act or any provisions thereof; but no township. borough or county, shall be in any wise liable for the salary or wages of any such officer, or for any expense in relation thereto, except for the detention of prisoners; all persons thus qualified under this section, shall be deemed to be constables and authorized officers within. the meaning of section six of this act; and the keepers of jails or lock-ups, or station houses. in any of said counties, are required to receive all persons arrested by such policemen or constables. Section 9. Whenever any person having the care, custody or control of any minor child, shall be convicted of an assault, or an assault and battery, upon such child, or of any violation of the provisions of this act, it shall be lawful for the justice of the peace, magistrate or court before whom such conviction has taken place, or where the parents or proper guardian of RELATING TO CHILDREN. 7'7 any child cannot be found, it shall be lawful for any magistrate or court, to commit such child to the care and custody of any duly authorized or incorporated humane society, having for one of its objects the protection of children from cruelty; and such society shall thereupon have all the rights of a guardian of the person of such child, but such society may at any time apply to the orphans’ court of the proper county for the appointment of a guardian of the person, or the commitment of such child to an asylum or home for children, as provided in the seventh section of this act. Section 10. Whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the court of common pleas of any county, that any minor child has been deserted. by its parents or surviving parent, and that it has no legal guardian, it shall be lawful for any person desirous of adOpting the said child to adopt the same, in the manner now provided by law in the case of the death of the parents. Section 11. In default of payment of the fine or penalty imposed under any of the sections of this act, together with the costs of the proceedings, then said justice of the peace, magis— trate or court of record, shall commit said ofiender to the county prison, there to remain for not less than twenty nor more than ninety days, or until discharged by due course of law: Provided, That when the fine imposed exceeds the sum of ten dollars, the party complained against may appeal from the decision of said justice of the peace or magistrate to the court of quarter sessions, upon his entering bail in the nature of a recognizance in the usual manner for his appearance at said court, when the offense shall be prosecuted in the same manner as is now directed by law in other cases of misde— meanor; if in lieu of deciding the cause, such justice of the peace or magistrate shall bind over or commit such person to appear at the court of quarter sessions or if such person shall appear as aforesaid, or upon binding over or commitment, ap- pear before the said court, and be there convicted of such mis— demeanor, he shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, payable as aforesaid, or undergo an imprison- ment not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. Section 12. Whenever the parents or proper guardian of any infant unable to support itself have been convicted of any of the offenses enumerated in this act, or are dead or cannot be found, and there is no other person legally responsible for the May be adopted when deserted by parents. Commitment to prison for non- payment of fines. Appeals to court of quarter sessions. Punishment on conviction before court. When minors to be committed to custody of guar- dians of poor. Repeal. Children under the age of six- teen years. Abandonment, etC. Misdemeanor. Penalty. Prima facie evidence. Denizen of house of ill repute, etc. Penalty. 78 ACTS or ASSEMBLY. maintenance and support of such child, willing to assume such support, or to be found within the county, any magistrate or court of record of the county in which such child may be found, may commit such child to the care and custody of the guardians of the poor of the said county, but nothing herein contained shall exempt any person from the duty of maintaining and supporting such child as now imposed by law. Section 13. That the act entitled “An act relating to the cruelty of children in this Commonwealth,” approved the twenty—fourth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight , hundred and seventy—eight, be and the same is hereby repealed. BETTER PROTECTION OF CHILDREN ACT 29TH MAY, 1907 (P. L. 318). AN ACT To provide for the better protection of children under the age of six- teen years, and providing punishment for the violation thereof. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That a parent or other person charged with the care and custody, for nurture 0r education, of a child under the age of sixteen years, who abandons the child in destitute circumstances, and wilfully omits to furnish necessary and proper food, clothing, or shelter for such child, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two Years, or both or either, at the discretion of the court. In case a fine is imposed, the same may be applied in the discretion of the court, to the sup— port of such child. Proof of the abandonment of such child in destitute circumstances, and omission to furnish necessary and proper food, clothing, or shelter, shall be prima facie evidence that such omission was wilful. Section 2. A parent or other person charged with the care or custody, for nurture or education, of a child under the age of sixteen years, who suffers or permits any child to be or remain in any reputed house of prostitution or assignation, or in any place where opium or any preparation thereof is smoked, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, _ or by imprisonment not exceedingtwo years, or both or either, at the discretion of the court. RELATING TO CHILDREN. 7'9 MARRIAGE OF.MINORS ACT 24TH MARCH, 1905 (P. L. 58). ‘ AN ACT To further amend an act, entitled “An act relating to marriage licenses, providing for ofl‘lcers herein indicated to issue licenses for parties to marry,” approved the 23d June, 1885. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., * '3“ ’3‘ if any of the persons intending to marry by virtue of such license shall be under twenty-one years of age, the consent of their parents or guardians shall be personally given before such clerk, or certi— fied under the hand of such parent or guardian, attested by two adult witnesses, and the signature of such parent or guardian shall be properly acknowledged before a notary public or other officer competent under the laws to receive acknowledgments; PROSTITUTION ACT 28TH MAY, 1885 (P. L. 27), AS AMENDED BY ACT 27TH APRIL, 1909 (P. L. 211). AN ACT Supplementary to an act, entitled “An act to protect children from cruelty, and relating to their employment, protection and adoption,” approved the 11th June, 1879, providing for the further protection of miners. * * * =1: :1: >1: * * * * >1: * Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That any person who takes a female child under the age of sixteen years, for the purpose of prostitution or sexual intercourse. or, without the consent of her father, mother, guardian or other person having legal con- trol of her person, for the purpose of marriage, or who inveigles or entices any such minor female child into a house of ill—fame, or of assignation, or elsewhere, for the purpose of prostitution or sexual intercourse, shall, in every such case, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to imprisonment at separate or solitary. confinement, at labor, for not more than five years, or pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both, at the discretion of the court. V Sections 2 and 3 repealed. Section 4. Any proprietor or any person in charge of any dance—house, concert saloon, theatre, museum, or similar places, Minors. Taking or send- ing of to im- moral resorts. Misdemeanor. Fine and Pen- alty. 80 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. of amusement, where wines or spirituous or malt liquors are sold or given away, or any place of entertainment injurious to health or morals, who admits or permits to remain therein any minor under the age of eighteen years, unless accompanied by his or her parent or guardian, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars. PROSTITUTION ACT 1ST MAY, 1909 (P. L. 306). AN ACT To prevent the inducing, enticing, or procuring or attempting to induce, entice, or procure, into the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, any woman or girl for immoral purposes; and providing a. punish- ment for the violation thereof. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That any person whosoever, who shall induce, entice or procure, or attempt to induce, entice or procure, into the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, any woman or girl, for the purpose of prostitution, or for any other immoral purpose, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, be imprisoned for a period of not less than one or more than five years, and be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars. SENDING TO IMMORAL RESORTS ACT 24TH MARCH, 1909 (P. L. 59). AN ACT Providing for the protection of minor children; and providing penal- ties for the violation thereof. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That any person, firm, com- pany or corporation, having authority over a minor who know- inglv takes or sends or causes or permits such minor to be sent, to any house of prostitution or assignation, or other immoral place of resort or amusement, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or to undergo an imprison- ment not exceeding one year, or both, at the discretion of the court. 1 RELATING TO CHILDREN. 81 RELIEF OF DESERTED WIVES AND CHILDREN ACT 31sr MARCH, 1812 (Sm. L. 391). A further supplement to the act, entitled “An act for the consolidation and amendment of the laws as far as they respect the poor of the city of Philadelphia, the district-of Southwark, and the township of Northern Liberties.” 1 , » v 1 .. . 'X‘ 7": 5: 7K" "A‘ 9% 7r ‘2': 7: 'X Section 6. And whereas, it sometimes happens that men separate themselves, without reasonable cause, from their wives, and desert their children, and women also desert their children, leaving them a charge on the said city, district and township, although such person may have estates, rights and credits, which should contribute to the maintenance of such wives or children Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the guardians of the poor in the said city, distiict and township, having first obtained a warrant 01 order from two aldermen of the said city, or from two of the justices of the peace of the county, residing in the said district or township, where such wife or children shall be so left or neglected, to take and seize so much of the goods and chattels, rights and credits, and receive so much of the annual rents and profits of the lands and tenements of such husband, father or mother, as such two aldermen or justices shall order and direct, for providing fo1 such wife, and for maintaining and bringing up such child or children, which warrant 01 order being con— firmed at the next mayor’ s court for the city, or quarter sessions for the county, it shall and may be lawful for the said court there to make an order for the guardians of the poor to dispose of such goods and chattels, rights and credits, by sale or other— wise, or so much of them for the purpose aforesaid, as the court shall think fit, to receive the rents and p1 ofits or so much of them as shall be ordered by the said court, of his or her lands and tenements, for the purposes aforesaid, and if no real or personal estate, rights and credits of such husband, fathe1 or mother, can be fo,und wherewith provision may be made as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful to and fo1 the said court \to order the payment of such sums as they shall think reason- able, for the maintenance of any wife or children so neglected, and commit such husband, father or mothe1, to the common gaol, there to remain until he or she comply with the said order, give security for the performance thereof, or be other— wise discharged by the said court; and on complaint made to any alderman of the city of Philadelphia, or to any justice of Where a wife or child is aban- doned by the father, the guar- dian shall seize his estate. How the estate shall be sold by order of the court. Husband, father or mother to be imprisoned until the order of the court is com- plied with. '89 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. the peace residing in the district of Southwark, or township of the Northern Liberties, of any wife or children, there being so neglected, such alderman or justice shall take security from the husband, father or mother, neglecting as aforesaid, for his or her appearance at the next mayor’s court, or court of quarter sessions, there to abide the determination of the said court, and for want of security, to commit such persons. A'- e:- e-e 4% —:<- -:-:- e:- e-:- —x- RELIEF OF DESERTED WIVES AND CHILDREN ACT 18111 JUNE,1836 (P. L. 5L7). AN ACT Relating to the support and employment of. the poor. Section 29. If any man shall separate himself from his wife, without reasonable cause, or shall desert his children, or if any woman shall desert her children, leaving them a charge upon the district, in any such case it shall be lawful for-any two magistrates of the county, upon complaint made by the overseers of the district, to issue their warrant to such over— seers, therein authorizing them to take and seize so much of the'goods and chattels, and to receive so much of the rents and profits, of the real estate of such man: or woman, as in the judgment of the said magistrates shall be sufficient to provide for such wife, and to maintain and bring up such children, which sum or amount shall be specified in such warrant; but if sufficient real or personal estate cannot be found, then to take the body of such man (or woman), and bring him (or her) before such magistrates, at a time to be specified in such w a 1 r a n t. x ~x- e-:- as ->:- -.\'- +5 -:<- 9+ —X« RELIEF OF DESERTED WIVES AND‘ CHILDREN ACT 13TH APRIL, 1867 (P. L. 78), AS AMENDED BY ACT 5TH MARCH, 1907 (P. L. 6). AN ACT For the relief of wives and children deserted by their husbands and fathers within this Commonwealth. * Section 1.’ Be it enacted, &c., That in addition to the rem— edies now provided by law, if any husband or father, being RELATING TO CHILDREN. 83 within the limits of this Commonwealth, has, or hereafter shall, separate himself from his wife, or from his children, or from wife and children, without reasonable cause, or shall neglect to maintain his wife, or children, it shall be lawful for any alder— man, justice of the peace, or magistrate of this Commonwealth, upon information made before him under oath, or affirmation, by his wife, or children, or either of them, or by any other person, or persons, to issue his warrant to the sheriff, or to any constable, for the arrest of the person against whom the infor- mation shall be made, as aforesaid, and bind him over, with one sufficient surety, to appear at the next court of quarter sessions, there to answer the said charge of desertion. Section 2. The information, proceedings thereon, and war— rant shall be returned to the next court of quarter sessions, when it shall be lawful for said court, after hearing, to order the person against whom complaint has been made, being of sufficient ability, to pay such sum as said court shall think reasonable and proper for the comfort able support and main- tenance of the midwife or children, or both, and to commit such person to the county prison, there to remain until he comply with such order, or give security, by one or more sure ties, to the Commonwealth, and in such sum as the court shall direct, for the compliance therewith. Section 3. That the costs of all proceedings, by virtue of this act, shall be the same as are now allowed, by law, in cases of surety of the peace, to be imposed in like manner; and all proceedings shall be in the name of the Commonwealth, and that any wife, so deserted, shall be a competent witness on the part of the Commonwealth, and the husband shall also be a competent witness. Section 4 That should any such person abscond, remove, or be found in any other county of the Commonwealth than the one in which said warrant issued, he may be arrested therein, by the said warrant being backed by any alderman, or justice of the peace, of the county in which said person may be found, as is now provided for backing warrants, by the third section of the act of 31st March, 1860. Aldermen, etc., authorized to issue warrants for arrest of hus- bands or fathers deserting their wives and children. Court order for relief. Commitment. Cost of proceed- ings, etc. ., relative to. “Children” defined. “Separation’ ’ defined. Neglect to maintain. Fine and penalty. Proviso. Proviso. Compliance with order of court. 84: ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. DESERTION OF WIVES AND CHILDREN ACT 13TH MARCH, 1903 (P. L. 26). AN ACT Making it a misdemeanor for a husband or father to desert and neglect to support his wife or children; prescribing a penalty therefor, and making the wife a competent witness in such cases. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That as used in this act the word “children” shall be limited to mean children under sixteen years of age, and also such children over sixteen and under twenty-one years of age, as, by reason of infirmity, are incap- able of supporting themselves; and further, that “separation,” within the meaning of this act, shall include every case where a husband has caused his wife to leave him by conduct 011 his part which would be ground for divorce. Section 2. If any husband or father, being within the limits of this Commonwealth, shall hereafter separate himself from his wife or from his children, or from wife and children, with— out reasonable cause, and shall wilfully neglect to maintain his wife or children, such wife or children being destitute, or being dependent wholly or in part on their earnings for ade- quate support, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and on con— viction thereof be sentenced to imprisonment not exceeding one year, and to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or either, or both, at the discretion of the court; such fine, if any, to be paid or applied in whole or in part to the wife or chil- dren, as the court may direct. Provided, That no such conviction, payment of fine, or undergoing imprisonment shall, in any manner, affect the obli- gation of any order of support theretofore made against the dc- fendant in the court of quarter sessions, in the manner now provided by law: And provided further, That upon conviction, the court may suspend sentence, upon and during compliance by the defendant with any order for support theretofore made against him, as already made or as may thereafter be modified, in the manner now provided by law; and if no such order shall have been made, then‘ the court trying the defendant may make such order for the support by the defendant of his wife and children, or either of them, which order shall be subject to modification by the court on cause shown, and mav suspend sentence, upon and during the compliance by defendant with such order then made or as thereafter modified and entry of 1 l RELATING TO CHILDREN. 85 bond by defendant, with surety approved by the court, condi- tioned on compliance with such order. Section 3. In any proceedings under this act the Wife shall be a competent witness. PARENTS AND CHILDREN ACT ’4TH MAY, 1855 (P. L. 430), AS AMENDED BY ACT 22D APRIL, 1905 (P. L. 297). AN ACT Relating to certain duties and rights of husband and Wife, and parents and children. 9": 96 96 99 * 'X‘ 9% 5+ 96 '36 Section 3. That whensoever any husband or father, from drunkenness, profligacy or other cause, shall neglect or refuse to provide for his child or children the mother of such children shall have all the rights and be entitled to claim, and be sub- ject to all the duties reciprocally due between a father and his children, and she may place them at employment and receive their earnings, or bind them to apprenticeship without the inter- ference of such husband, the same as a father can now do by law: Provided, always, That she shall afford to them a good example, and, properly educate and maintain them according to her ability: And provided, That if the mother be of unsuit— able character to be entrusted as aforesaid, or dead, the proper court may appoint a guardian of such children, who shall per- form the duties aforesaid, and apply the earnings of such chil- dren for their maintenance and education. ‘5‘ 96 99 * $9 96 * 9% -X— 56 Section 6. That no father who shall have as aforesaid, for one year or upwards previous to the death of his wife, wilfully neglected or refused to provide for his child or children, shall have the right to appoint any testamentary guardian for him, her or them, during minority. Section 7. That it shall be lawful for any person desirous ‘ of adopting any child as his or her heir, or as one of his or her heirs, to present his or her petition to, such court in the county where he or she may be resident, declaring such desire, and that he or she will perform all the duties of a parent to such child; and such court, if satisfied that the welfare of such child will be promoted by such adoption, may, with the consent of Bond. Mother shall have all the father’s rights over her chil- dren when. 1’ roviso. When father loses right to testamentary guardian. Parties may adopt children. Petition. Consent to decree of adoption. Decree of the court. Rights and duties of child. Proviso. Inheritance. 86 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. the parents or surviving parent of such child; or if such child shall have been judicially committed to the care of any person or corporation, as being destitute, homeless, abandoned or de- pendent on the public, or having no parental care, or if, upon a third conviction of the parent or parents of such child of any crime or misdemeanor against or in relation to such child, be- fore any magistrate, justice of the peace or court of record, or any one of them, such child shall have been committed to the care of any person or corporation, then with the consent of such person or corporation having the custody and control of such child, and that of the non-neglecting or innocent parent alone, if one be living; or, if the father or mother, from drunkenness, profiigacy or other cause, shall have neglected or refused to provide for such child for the period of one year or upwards, proven to the satisfaction of the court, then with the consent of the non-neglecting father or mother alone, or, if none, of the next friend of such child, or of the guardians or overseers of the poor, or of such charitable institution as shall have sup- ported such child for at least one year; decree that such child shall assume the name of the adopting parent, and have all the rights of a child and heir of such adopting parent, and be sub- ject to the duties of such child, of which the record of the court shall be sufficient evidence: Provided, That if such adopting parent shall have other children, the adopted shall share in- heritance only as one of them, in case of intestacy, and he, she or they shall respectively inherit from and through each other, as if all had been the lawful children of the same parent. RECORD OF ADOPTION ACT 21) APRIL, 1872 (P. L 31). AN ACT Relating to the rights of adopted. children, being a supplement to an act, entitled “An act relating to certain duties and rights of husband and wife, and parents and children,” approved the fourth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That in all cases heretofore, as well as hereafter, when the Common law form of adopting a- childby deed has been practiced or done, it shall be lawful, 0.11 proof of' due execution of the deed, to have the same re— corded in the.‘ proper office for the recording of deeds, in the RELATING To CHILDREN. 87 county where the adopting parent resides at the date of its execution; and a duly certified copy thereof shall be received in evidence, with the same force and effect as the record of adoption would have in the mode provided in the act to which this is a supplement. ADOPTION INTO ANOTHER STATE ACT 21) JULY, 1901 (P. L. 606). AN ACT Conferring jurisdiction upon. the courts of common pleas of the counties of this Commonwealth to authorize the adoption of children in the said county by a person living in another State, upon petition of either parent of such child. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That from and after the passage of this act the several courts of common pleas of the State of Pennsylvania are authorized to decree the adoption of children, under the age of twenty—one years, who are residing in the county in which the application is made at the time of such application by a person living in another State, upon the petition of the parent of such child, or either of such parents, or, if none, the next friend of such child, or of the guardians or overseers of the poor, or of such charitable institution as shall have supported such child for at least one year, and the court shall be satisfied that the person adopting such child is :1 fit person to have the custody of the same. This act to apply as well to proceedings now' pending as to subsequent pro— ceedings. GUARDIANS APPOINTED BY MOTHERS ACT 10m JUNE, 1881 (P. L. 96). _ AN ACT To enable mothers in certain cases to appoint testamentary guardians. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That every mother of an un— married minor child, who shall leave to such child an estate, either in lands; 0r chattels, may appoint a testamentary guar- dian for such child: Provided, That the father be not living, or being deceased he has not appointed such guardian. Section 2'. Every mother, who by her deceased husband’s will has been appointed testamentary guardian of her children, may by her last will appoint a successor in such guardianship. Courts of Common Pleas may decree adoption of chil- dren by persons living in another State upon peti- tion of either parent. Mother shall have same power and control over minor child as the father has. Proviso. Judge! shall de- cide in cases of disputes as to possession of child. 88 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. ACT 25TH MAY, 1887 (P. L. 264). AN ACT To enable mothers, in certain cases, to appoint testamentary guardians, being a supplement to an act, bearing the same title, approved 10 June, 1881, and also a supplement to an act, entitled “An act relating to certain duties and rights of husband and wife, and parents and children,” approved 4th May, 1855. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That whensoever any hus- band, from drunkenness, profligacy or other cause, has neglected or refused to provide for his wife and children, or has deserted them, such wife may, if she leave to her children an estate, either in lands or chattels, appoint a testamentary guardian for her minor child or children. RIGHTS OF MOTHERS ACT 26TH JUNE, 1895 (P. L. 316). AN ACT Relating tqhusband and wife who are the parents of minor children, enlarging and extending the power, control and authority of the mother over their minor children, under certain circumstances. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That hereafter a married woman, who is the mother of a minor child and who contributes by the fruits of her own labor or otherwise toward the support, maintenance and education of her said minor child, shall have the same and equal power, control and authority over her said ' child and shall have the same and equal right to its custody and services as is now by law possessed by her husband, who is the father of such minor child: Provided, however, That the mother of such minor child is otherwise qualified as a fit and proper person to have the control and custody of said child. Section 2. That in all cases of dispute between the father and mother of such minor child, as to which parent shall be entitled to its custody or services, the judges of the courts shall decide, in their sound discretion, as to which parent, if either, the custody of such minor child shall be committed, and shall remand such child accordingly, regard first being had to the fitness of such parent and the best interest and permanent wel‘ fare of said child. k ,l‘wayngmq a: - RELATING TO CHILDREN. 89 ILLE-GITIMATE CHILDREN ACT 10TH JULY, 1901 (P. L. 639), AS AMENDED BY ACT 26TH MARCH, 1903 (P. L. 70). AN ACT To regulate and define the legal relations of an illegitimate child, or children, its or their heirs, with each other and the mother and her heirs. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That illegitimate children shall take and be known by the name of their mother, and the common law doctrine of nullius filius shall not apply as be- tween the mother and her illegitimate child or children. But the mother and her heirs, and the illegitimate child and its heirs, shall be mutually liable one to the other, and shall enjoy all the rights and privileges’one to the other, in the same manner and to the same extent, as if the said child or children had been born in lawful wedlock. ’3‘? 9'." 96 96 96 'X‘ :‘C‘ *X‘ ‘X‘ ‘1? Section 4. The intent of this act is to legitimate an illegiti— mate child and its heirs, as to its mother and her heirs; but it is not intended to change the existing law with regard to the father of such child, or their respective heirs or representatives. This act shall apply to all cases now pending, where the estate of such illegitimate or its mother has not been actually paid to and received by collateral heirs or relatives or the Common- wealth, as well as to all such cases happening after the passage of this act. COMPETENCY OF WITNESSES ACT 27TH AIRIL, 1909 (P. L. 179). No. 126. AN ACT To amend section two of an act, approved the twenty-third day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An act relating to the competency of Witnesses, and to the rules of evidence in civil and criminal cases; revising, declaring and consolidating some of the existing acts and rules of law upon these subjects, and also extending some of the provisions of the same,” so as to permit husband and wife to testify against each other in any criminal proceeding against either, for bodily injury or violence inflicted upon the person of their, or either of their minor children, or any minor child in their care or custody. Section 1. Be it enacted, &e., That section two of an act, entitled “An act relating to the competency of witnesses, and Competency of mtnesses. Criminal cases. Section 2, act of May 23, 1887, cited for amendment. Criminal proceed- ing. Conviction of jury shall dis- qualify the wit- ness. Exceptions. per- 90 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. to the rules of evidence in civil and criminal cases; revising, declaring, and consolidating some of the existing acts and rules , of law upon these subjects and also extending some of the provisions of the same,” approved the twenty-third day-of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, which reads as follows, namely,— “Section 2. In such criminal proceeding—— a. A person who has been convicted in a court of this Com— monwealth of perjury, which term is hereby declared to include subornation of perjury, shall not be a competent witness for any purpose, although his sentence may have been fully corn- plied with, unless the judgment of conviction be judicially set aside or reserved, or, unless the proceedings be one to punish or prevent injury or violence attempted, done, or threatened to his person or property; in which cases he shall be competent to testify. b. Nor shall husband and wife be competent or permitted to testify against each other, or in support of a criminal charge of adultery alleged‘to have been committed by or with the other, except that in proceedings for desertion and maintenance, and in any criminal proceeding against either for bodily injury or violence attempted, done, or threatened upon the other, each shall be a competent witness against the other, and except, also, that either shall be competent merely to prove the fact of mar~ riage in support of a criminal charge of adultery alleged to'have been committed by or with the other. c. Nor shall either husband or wife be competent or per- mitted to testify to confidential communication made: by one to the other, unless this privilege be waived upon the trial. d. Nor shall counsel be competent or permitted to testify to confidential communications made to him by his client, or the client be compelled to disclose the same, unless, in either case, this privilege be waived upon the trial by» the client,” be and the same is hereby amended so to read as follows:— Section 2. In such criminal proceeding,— 'a. A person who has been convicted in a court of this Com- monwealth of perjury, which term is hereby declared to in- clude subornation of perjury, shall not be a competent witness for any purpose, although his sentence may have been fully complied with, unless the judgment-of conviction be judicially set aside or reserved, or unless the proceedings be one to punish or prevent injury o-r'violence attempted, done, or threatened to .RELATING TO CHILDREN. ‘ 91 his person or property; in which cases he shall be competent to testify. ' . ~ ' . ' . ’ b. Nor shall husband and wife be competent or permitted to testify against each other, or in support of a criminal charge of adultery alleged to have been Committed by or with the other, except that in proceedings for desertion and maintenance, and in any criminal proceeding against either for bodily injury or, violence attempted, done or threatened upon the other, or upon the minor children of said husband and wife, or the minor children of either of them or any minor child in their care or custody, or in the care 0r custody of either of them, each shall be a competent witness against the other; and except, also, that either of them shall be competent merely to prove the fact of marriage, in support of a criminal charge of adultery alleged to have been committed by or with the other. c. Nor shall either husband or wife be competent or per~ mitted to testify to confidential communications made by one to the other, unless this privilege be waived upon the trial. d. Nor shall counsel be competent or permitted to testify to confidential communications made to him by his client, or' the client be compelled to disclose the same, unless in either case this privilege be waived upon the trial by the client. CONTAGIOUS OR INFECTIOUS DISEASE ' ACT 181‘ :MAY, 1909 (P. L. 307). AN ACT To provide for the recovery by bureaus of health, boards of health, and boards of school directors, of cities, boroughs, and townships of this Commonwealth, of money expended to care for and maintain persons sick of contagious or infectious diseases, when the person so sick has a settlement in some other city, borough, or township of this Commonwealth, and providing for the payment of all expense by the party falling sick, except poor persons, and defining a settle- ment for the purposes of this act. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That if any person shall come out of any city, borough, township, or district, in this Com- monwealth, into any other city, borough, township, or district, and shall happen to fall sick of any contagious or infectious dis- ease before he shall have gained a' settlement therein, the bureau - of health, board of health, or board of school directors of such city, borough, or township, or district shall, as soon as con— Husband and , wife. Exceptions. Bodily injury, violence or threats. Confidential com- munications. Bureau or boards of health and boards of school directors. Case of conta- gious or infectious disease. Legal settlement of patient. Refusal to pay. Duty of the court. Proviso. Those who shall pay expenses. Proviso. How a settlement may be gained. 92 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. veniently may be, give notice to the bureau of health, board of health, or board of school directors of the city, borough, town- ship, or district, as the case may be, where such sick person had last gained a settlement, or to one of them, the name, circum— stance, and condition of such sick person; and if the bureau; of health, board of health, or board of school directors, to Whom such notice shall be given, shall neglect or refuse to repay the moneys necessarily expended for the use of such sick person and to take charge of relieving and maintaining him, or shall, on request made, refuse or neglect to pay the money expended in maintaining such sick person, in every such case it shall be the duty of the court of quarter sessions of the county where such sick person was last settled, upon complaint to them made, to compel the payment by such bureau of health or board of school directors or board of health of all such sums of money as were necessarily expended for such purposes, in the manner directed by law in the case of a judgment obtained against overseers of poor: Provided, That in all cases the court of quar~ ter sessions of the proper county shall have the right and authority to supervise, correct, and amend, or allow the charges or expenses received, or any items thereof. Section 2. All persons falling sick of any-contagious or in- fectious disease, excepting those entitled to relief under the ex— isting poor—laws, shall bear and pay all expenses incident to such sickness, except expense of quarantine; and in case any bureau of health, or board of school directors have made payment, under section one of this act, then they shall recover any money so expended, in the same manner as debts of like amount are now by law collected: Provided, The expense of the care and maintenance of the poor person, sick with a contagious or infec— tious disease, shall be paid out of the funds at the disposal of said bureaus of health, board of health, or board of school directors. . Section 3. A settlement may be gained in any district as follows :— ‘ 1. By any person who shall come to inhabit in the same, and who shall, for himself and on his own account, execute any public ofiice legally placed therein during one whole year. 2. By any person who shall be charged with and pay the proportion of any public taxes or levies for one year. 3. By any person who shall bona fide take a lease of any real estate of the yearly value of ten dollars, and shall dwell upon ~ the same for one whole year, and pay the said rent. RELATING TO CHILDREN. 93 4. By any peison who shall become seized of any freehold estate within such district, and who shall dwell upon the same for one whole year. 5. By any unmarried person, not having a child who shall be lawfully bound or hired as a servant within such district, and shall continue in such service during one whole year. Section 4. Every married woman shall be deemed, during Married woman coverture and after her husband’s death, to be settled in the place where he was last settled, but, if he shall have no known settlement, then she shall be deemed, whether he be living or dead, to be settled 1n the place where she was last settled bef01e her marriage. Section 5. Every illegitimate 111inoi child shall be deemed mtgifimate min” child. to be settled 1n the place where the mother was legally settled at the time of the birth of such child. BLINDNESS ACT 26TH JUNE, 1895 (P. L. 373). AN ACT For the prevention for blindness, imposing a duty upon all midwives, nurses or other persons having the care of infants, and also upon the health oificers, and fixing a penalty for neglect thereof. VVhe1eas, Statistics compiled in this country and Europe Preamble No. 1. demonstrate that fully twenty-five pei centum of the blind owe their affliction to an inflammation of the conjunctiva appearing a few days aftei birth, 1 And whereas, Expeiience has proved that the inflammation Preamble No, 2, can be cured and the eyesight saved in the majority of cases if treatment be instituted at an early stage of the disease; And whereas, Destruction of the eyes and blindness are Preamble N0. 3. usually the result of delay of treatment. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That should one or both eyes of an infant become inflamed or swollen or reddened at any . time within two weeks after birth, it shall be the duty of the aggggsafidmggge, midwife or nurse, or other person having the care of such in— fant, to report in Writing, within six hours after the discovery thereof, to the health officer or legally qualified practitioner of Egglltlhrggfigretr to the city, town or district in which the mother of the child re- ' sides, the fact that such inflammation or swelling or redness exists. Duty of health officer. Copy of Act to be furnished midwives, etc. Penalty. Pool rooms, bil- liard rooms, bowl- i ng‘ saloons, etc. Presence of per- sons under eighteen years forbidden. Misdemeanor. Fine. 94: ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. Section 2. That it shall be the duty of said health officer, immediately upon receipt of said written report, to notify the parents or the person having charge of said infant'of the danger to the eye or eyes of said infant by reason of said-condition from neglect of proper treatment of the same, and he shall also enclose to them directions for the proper treatment thereof. Section 3. Every health oflicer shall furnish a copy of this act to each person who is known to him to act as midwife or nurse in the city or town for which such health officer is ap- pointed, and the Secretary of State shall cause a sufficient number of copies of this act to be printed and supply the same to such health officers on application. Section 4:. Any failure to comply with the provisions of this act shall be punishable by fine not to exceed two hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed thirty days, or both. POOL ROOMS ‘ ACT 18TH .APRIL, 1905 (P. L. 212). AN ACT For the better regulation of public pool rooms, billiard rooms, bowling saloons, and tenpin alleys in the Commonwealth'of Pennsylvania. Section 1. Be it enacted, 8w, That it shall not be lawful for the licensed keeper, proprietor, owner or superintendent of any public pool rooms, billiard room, bowling saloon or tenpin alley in this Commonwealth knowingly to allow or permit any person under the age of eighteen years to be present in such public pool rooms, billiard room, bowling saloon or tenpin alley; and that the keeper, proprietor, owner or superintendent of such public pool rooms, billiard room, bowling saloon or tenpin alley, knowingly allowing or permitting any person under the age of eighteen years to be present therein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. RELATINGr TO CHILDREN. 95 TOBACCO ACT 10TH. JULY, 1901 (P. L. 638). . AN ACT To prohibit the sale and furnishing of tobacco to persons under the age of sixteen years. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That no person or persons shall sell tobacco, in any form, to any person under the age of sixteen years. Section 2. That no person or persons .shall, by purchase, gift or other means, furnish tobacco in any form to a person under the age of sixteen years. Section 3. Any person Violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to undergo confinement in‘the county jail for a period not ex- ceeding thirty days, or both, as the court may determine. Section 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith be, and the same. are hereby. repealed. ‘ CIGARETTES ACT 4TH APRIL, 1903 (P. L. 154), AS AMENDED BY ACT 16TH MARCH, 1905 (P. L 43). AN ACT For the protection of the health of persons addicted to the smoking of cigarettes, and imposing a fine for the violation of its provisions. Whereas, The smoking of cigarettes is injurious to the health of the young; therefore, Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That if any person or persons shall furnish cigarettes or cigarette paper, by gift, sale or otherwise, to any. person or persons under the age of twenty—one years, he or she so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon‘conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to play a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and not less than one hundred dollars. Sale of or furnish- ing of tobacco to persons under 16 years. Misdemeanor. Fine and penalty. Repeal. Preamble. 96 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. SALE OF LIQUORS ACT 13TH MAY, 1887 (P. L. 108). AN ACT - To restrain and regulate the sale of vinous and spirituous, malt or brewed liquors, or any admixtures thereof. '3‘} 7r '3‘? ix" ’3’: 1X" ’3'? 91‘ Section 1‘7. That it shall not be lawful for any person with or without license, to furnish by sale, gift or otherwise * * * any spirltuous, vinous, malt or brewed liquors, * * * at any time to a minor. ACT 25TH MAY, 1897 (P. L. 93). AN ACT Relating to the prosecutions of licensed dealers and their employes on the charge of furnishing intoxicating liquors to minors, and pre- scribing the penalty therefor. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That in all prosecutions insti- tuted against licensed vendors of vinous, spirituous, malt or brewed liquors, or against any employe of such licensed vendor, upon the charge of furnishing intoxicating liquor to a minor, the defendant shall be permitted to ofier, by way of defense, evidence of the circumstances under which the liquor was fur— nished, and if it appear that it was furnished knowingly or negligently, the defendant shall be deemed guilty of a misde— meanor, and upon conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding ninety days: Provided, however, That. the burden of proof shall rest upon the defendant to 'show that the intoxicating liquor was not furnished to a minor either knowingly or negligently. .A ,.-‘<§r_lé”u RELATING TO CHILDREN. 97 MTSREPRESENTATION OF AGE ACT 10TH MAY, 1881 (P. L. 12). AN ACT Making it a misdemeanor for any minor to knowingly and falsely rep- resent himself to be of full age, for the purpose of obtaining intoxi— cating liquors. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That any person under the age of twenty~one years, who shall knowingly and falsely repre— sent himself to be twenty-one years of age to any licensed inn— keeper, restaurant keeper or other person, for the purpose of procuring or having furnished to him, by sale, gift or other— wise, any intoxicating liquors, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of quarter sessions shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than twenty dollars. or undergo an imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding thirty days. Section 2. That any person who shall knowingly, wilfully and falsely represent, to any licensed inn—keeper, restaurant keeper or other person, any minor, to he of full age, for the purpose of inducing any such licensed inn—keeper, restaurant keeper or other person, to sell or furnish any intoxicating liquors to said minor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than twenty dollars, or undergo an imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding thirty days, or both or either, at the discretion of the court. JUNK DEALERS ACT 5TH MAY, 1899 (P. L. 247). AN ACT To punish the buying or receiving of junk, rope, scrap iron. brass, or other metals, from minors, unknown or irresponsible parties. SectiOn 1. Be it enacted, &c., That if any person or persons shall, after the passage of this act, buy or receive from minors, knowing them to be such, or from persons unknown to such person or persons so buying or receiving, or from persons pur- suing no trade, labor or employment for a livelihood, any junk, Punishment for minor to obtain intoxicating liquors upon false representa- tion that he is of full age. Punishment for another to falsely represent a minor to be of full age to obtain liquors. The purchase or receiving of junk, rope, scrap iron, etc., from minors, unknown persons, etc., declared a misdemeanor. Penalty. 98 ‘ ACTS OF ASSEMBLY.‘ rope, scrap, brass, iron, lead, copper, or other metal, such per- son or persons shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in a court of quarter sessions of the proper county, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not exceeding. five hundred dollars, or to undergo an imprisonment of not more than one year, or both, at the discretion of 1the court. PAWNBROKERS ACT 7TH JUNE, 1911. AN ACT Prohibiting pawnbrokers, or any employe, from making loans to, or receiving pledges from, minors under the age of sixteen years. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That no person being a pawn- broker, or the employe of a pawnbroker, shall make any loan, or advance, or permit to be made any loan, or advance, to any minor under the age of sixteen years, or in any manner to receive directly, or indirectly, any goods, chattels, Svares or merchandise,- frOm any such minor under the age of sixteen years,'in pledge for loans made, or to be made, to such minor, or to any other person. Section 2. , No person shall act as an intermediary between any pawnbroker, or the employe of a paxvnbroker, to effect any loan, the benefit of which shall accrue to any minor under the age of sixteen years. Section 3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty—five dollars, for each offense, to he col- lected by process of summary conviction before any magistrate or justice of the peace, as like fines and penalties are now by law collected, or in case of non—payment of such fine Within forty-eight hours. to undergo an imprisonment in the county prison for a period not exceeding five days. RELATING TO CHILDREX. 99 ITINERANT VENDORS ACT .JBD FEBRUARY, 1870 (l). L. 21$). AN ACT To require itinerant purchasers and traders in glass, rags, paper, scrap metals, old clothing, and all other refuse matter to be licensed, etc. Section 1. ,3e it enacted, &c., That from and after the passage of this act all itinerant purchasers and traders in glass, rags, paper, scrap metals, old clothing, and all other refuse matter, in the city of Philadelphia, shall be required to be licensed as itinerant vendors, or purchasers, or traders, and shall pay therefor the sum of fifty dollars per annum, in ad- vance; and licenses shall issue from the office of the court of quarter sessions. Each person so licensed shall file a bond in said office in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned that he or she shall not purchase any of the things herein in— cluded from any minor or irresponsible party. Any person or persons who shall act as itinerant vendors, purchasers or traders as aforesaid, without being duly licensed, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every offense of which he, she or they shall be convicted in the court of quarter sessions, or undergo an imprisonment, in the county prison, of a term not exceeding one year, as the court may determine. The license fees and penalties collected under the provisions of this act. shall be paid into the city treasury. OBSCENE LITERATURE Aer 6TH MAY, 1887 (P. L. 85). AN ACT To prevent and punish the making and dissemination of obscene litera- ture and other indecent and immoral matter. ' ' . ‘ . . . . The making and Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That if any pe1 son shall bung dissemination of . _ w . ' ' . 1 r ’ ' ' obscene literature 01 cause to be biought into this State £01 sale 01 eklllbltloll, and immoral and or shall sell, lend, give away, or offer to give away or show, or ie’igeceiiicigirceténii’ have in his or her possession, with intent to sell, or give away, beamisdemeanor. or to exhibit, show, advertise. or otherwise offer, for loan, gift, sale or distribution, any indecent or obscene boOk, magazine, Punishment. Proviso. The selling, lend- ing, giving or showing of im- moral or indecent books, papers, pictures, etc., to a minor declared to be a misde- meanor. Punishment. 100 ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. pamphlet, newspaper, story paper, writing, paper, picture, card, drawing or photograph, or any article or instrument of in— decent or immoral use, or shall design, copy, draw, photograph, print, utter, publish, or otherwise prepare such book, picture, card, drawing, paper, or other article, or shall write, or print, or cause to be written or printed, a circular, advertisement, or notice of any kind, or give information orally, stating where, when, how, or of whom, or by what means, such an indecent or obscene article, or thing, can be purchased, seen or obtained, shall in every such case be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceed- ing five hundred dollars, and undergo an imprisonment not exceeding one year: Provided. That this section shall not apply to any person giving information orally for the purpose of procuring or furnishing evidence to convict under this act. Section 2. Any person who shall sell, lend, give away, or show, or shall have in his possession, with intent to sell. or give away, or show, or shall advertise or otherwise offer, for loan, gift, or distribution to any minor, any book, pamphlet, maga— zine, newspaper or other printed paper devoted to the publica- tion or principally made up of criminal news. police reports, or accounts of criminal deeds. or pictures or stories of deeds of bloodshed. lust or crime. or shall exhibit on any street, or highway. or in any other place within the view. or which may be within the view, of any minor child. any book, magazine, pamphlet, newspaper, writing. paper, picture. drawing, photo- graph. or other article or articles coming within the description of articles mentioned in the first section of this act, shall. in every such case, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon con- viction thereof. shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding ‘_ five hundred dollars. and undergo an imprisonn'leut not exceed- Entlnmg a child how its parents. King two years. ENTICING ACT 31s1‘ MARCH. 1860 (P. L. 405). AN ACT To consolidate, revise and amend the penal laws of this Commonwealth. v}:- +9 s +9 -:~:- as \2 -:-:- —:»:« +9 Section 94. If any person shall maliciously, either by force or fraud, lead, take or carry away or decoy or entice away, any RELATING TO CHILDREN. 101 child, under the age of ten years, with the intent to deprive its parent or parents, or any other person having the lawful charge or care of such child, of the possession of such child by concealing and detaining such child from such parent or parents, or other pers0n or persons having the lawful charge or care of it, or with intent to steal any article of apparel or ornament, or other thing of value or use, upon or about the person of such child, to whomsoever such article may belong, or shall receive and harbor, with any such intent as aforesaid, any such child, knowing the same to have been so by force or fraud led, taken or carried, or decoyed or enticed away as afore— said, every such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceed— ing two thousand dollars, and to undergo an imprisonment, by separate or solitary confinement at labor, not exceeding seven years: Provided, always, That no person who shall have claimed to be the father of any illegitimate child, or to have any legal right to the possession of such child, shall be liable to be prose— cuted by virtue hereof, on account of getting possession of such child. out of the possession of the mother or other person having lawful charge thereof. :1. :.L ..- M. . a _ -.. . u .'. n SEDUCTION , . ACT Slsr MARCH, 1860 (P. L. 394:). AN ACT To consolidate, revise and amend the .penal laws of this Commonwealth. 7": ~12 .~: -:+ e:- e2- 96 e-:- -:'I- % Section 41. The seduction of any female of good repute, under twenty—one years of age, with illicit connection, under promise of marriage, is hereby declared to be a misdemeanor; and any person who shall be convicted thereof, shall be sen- tenced to pay a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and to undergo imprisonment, either at labor by separate or solitary confinement, or imprisonment without labor, not exceeding three years. or both or either, as the discretion of the court: Provided, That the promise of marriage shall not be deemed established unless the testimony of the female seduced is cor- roborated by other evidence, either circumstantial or positive. 95 7: 7. w 7‘? 9: 7r 9% if 9: the principal. Felony. Penalty. The accessory. 102 V ACTS OF ASSEMBLY. RAPE Aer 19TH MAY, 1887 (P. L. 128). A SUPPLEMENT To an act entitled “An act to consolidate, 1evise and amend- the penal laws of this Commonwwealth ” approved the 31st March, 1860, amend- ing the 91st section thereof, defining rape and ca1nal knowledge of female chi1d1en, and prescribing the penalty theref01 Section 91. If any person shall have unla11 ful carnal knowl- edge of a woman f01ciblV and against her will, 01 who, being of the age of sixteen y'ea1s and upwa1',(ls shall unlawfully and ca1nallV know and abuse any woman child under the age of sixteen )eais, with 01 without her consent, such person bshall be adjudged guilty of felonious rape, and on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and undergo an imprisonment by sepa1 ate or “solitary confinement at labor or by simple immisonment not exceeding fifteen yeais: P101 ided, 11011 e1'e1 That upon the trial of any defend— ant chaiged with the unlawful ca1nal knowledge and abuse of :1 woman child under the age of sixteen years, if the jury shall find that such woman child was not of good repute. and that the carnal knowledge was with her consent, the defendant shall be acquitted of the felonious rape, and convicted of fornica~ tion only. Also Act 31st March, 1860 (l). I. 405). sections 9‘2 and 93. KIDNAPPING A0411Jw'111A1>111L,1901 (P. L 65). To punish kidnappers, their aiders, assistors and abettors. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That. any person who shall take, or carry away, or decoy, or entice away, or secrete, any child or person with intent to extort money or any other valu- able thing for the restoration or return of such person, such offender shall be guilty of. felony. and, upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to undergo imprisonment by separate or soli- tary confinement at labor for the term of his or her natural life, or for any term of years, at the discretion of the court. Section 2. Any person who shall aid, assist or abet,in the RELATING TO CHILDREN. 103 taking or carrying away, or in the decoying or enticing away, or secreting, of any child or person, with intent to extort money, or any other valuable thing, for the restoration or return of such child or person, such offender shall be guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of five thousand dollars, and undergo an imprisonment by separate and solitary confinement at labor for a period not exceeding twenty—five years, at the discretion of the court. TRAFFICKING IN CHILDREBT ACT 18TH APRIL, 1005 (P. L. 213). AN ACT To prevent the buying and selling of infant children, and providing for the punishment therefor. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That, if any person, or per— sons, shall, Within this Commonwealth, trade, barter, buy, sell, 01 deal in humanity by trading ' ,bartering, buying, selling or dealing in infant children, he, slie or theyb shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction theieof, shall beb sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or undergo an impiis onment not exceeding five years, or both, at the dis— cretion of the court. Felony. Penalty. IXDEX References are to pages and sections. Abandonment ............................................ 74, §1; 78, §1 Acrobats ........................................................ 74, §2 Adopted Child—Rights of ........................................ 86, §7 Adoption .................................... 15, §5; 77, §10; 85, §7; 87 Adoption Into Another State ....................................... 87 Adoption Record ................................................... 86 Age of Consent .................................................... 102 Aiding in Violation of Parole ........................................ 19 Almhouses ......................................................... 3 Amusement Places ....................................... 75, §4, 79, §4 Annual Reports ................................. 46, §8; 47, §12; 48, 49 Apprentices Protected ............................................. 3 Apprentices, Regulation of .................................. 36, §8; 72 Appropriations to Houses of Refuge ................................ 32 Assault .......................................................... 76, i§9 Assignation, Houses of ....................... 74, §2; 78, §2; 79, §1; 80 Attendance at School .............................................. 65 Attendance Ofiicers’ Authority ............................. .71, §1434 Baby Farming ................................................... 41, 43 Begging on Streets .............................................. 74, §3 Better Protection of Children ....................................... 78 Billiard Rooms ..................................................... 94 Binding of Children by Institutions ............................... 37 Binding of Children by Mother ............................ 38; 85, §3 Binding of Children by Overseers ................................. 36 Binding of Orphans by Mother ..................................... 38 Blindness .......................................................... 93 Board of Children in Homes ............. 35 Board of Public Charities ................................. 44, 48, 49 Boarding of Infants ............................................. 41, 43 Boarding Out Children by Institutions ............................. 33 Boarding Out Children by Probation Ofl‘icers ..................... 15, §6 Boards of Visitation ................................................ 49 Bowling Alleys .............. . ...................................... 94 Boys’ Schools ...................................................... 30 Boys Sent to Protectory ............................................. 26 Certain Charitable Societies ........................................ 39 Certain Children’s Homes ......................................... 32 (105) 106 INDEX. Child Labor .......................... 49, 53, 60, 65; 68, §1421; 74, §2 Children Convicted in U. S. Courts .................................. 23 “Children” Defined .. . . . . . . . . . . . .'. .............................. 84, §1 Children’s Aid Society ............................................. 39 Cigarettes ........................ 95 Commitment of Boys to Protectory ................................ 26 Commitment of Children , 14, §4; 15, §6; 16, §§8 and 10; 32; 40, §2; 76, §9; 77, g12 Competency of Witnesses ............................ 83, §3; 85, §3; 89 Compulsory Attendance ............................................. 65 Confinement and Trial ............................................. 20 Confinement of Children Awaiting Trial ...................... 16, §7; 20 Contagious and Infectious Diseases ................... _. . .‘ ........... 91 Contributing to Delinquency of Minors ............................. 19 Control of Minor Girls .............................................. 33 Cost of Court Proceedings ......................................... 41 Cost of Maintenance ................ 15, §6; 24, §2; 33, 34, 35; 76, §7 Cost of Maintenance Outside the State .............................. 35 County Schools for Boys ........................... _ ................. 30 Court Order ............................................. 14, §4; 83, §2 Cruelty—Protection From ....................................... 73, 78 Custody of Children.13,§2; 14, §4; 16, §§9 and 10; 75, §7; 76, §9; 77,§12; 88 Dance Houses ........... 74, §4; 79, §4 Deaf Children’s Home ............................................. 30 ”Delinquent” Children Defined ................................... 12, §1 “Dependent” Children Defined ................................. 12, §1 Deserted Children ..................................... 77, §§10 and 12 Deserted Wives and Children ..................................... 81—2 Desertion of Wives and Children .................................... 84 Destitute Children ........................ 32; 69, §1424; 78, §1; 85, §7 Detaining Children .............................................. 38, §1 Eastern Pennsylvania Institute for Feeble—minded .................. 28 Education ................................................... 38, §2; 65 Employment Certificates .............. 51, §4; 62. §§7 and S; 68, §1421 Employment of Minors.49, §1; 53, §2; 60,65; 67, 31419; 74, §§2 and 4; 75,§5 Enticing ................................................... 80, 100, 102 Expenses Incurred by Probation Officers ............................ 17 Factory Act ........................................................ 53 “Family” Defined .............................................. 55, §14 Feeble-minded—Institutions for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .‘. ...... 28, 29 Fornication ........................... ' ...................... 102, §91 General Child Labor Act .................................. \ ........... 6 0 GirardCollege..................................; ........ . ........... 3 INDEX. 107 Girls—Control of ................................................... 33 Glen Mills School .................................................. 24 Guardians ........................ 15, §5; 75, §7; 76, §9,' 85, §§3 and G Guardians Appointed by Mother .................................... 87 Guardians of the Poor. 36,38; 69,31424; 77,§12; 81,1§6; 82,§29; 85,§7; 87 Health of Minors ................................................ 49, 60 Home for Deaf Children ..................... 30 Hours of Labor .................................. 50, §2; 54, §3; 61, §5 House of Detention ................................................. 21 House of Refuge ................................................... 24 House of Refuge of Western Pennsylvania. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 25 Houses of Ill—Repute ......................... 74, §2; 78, :2; 79, §1; 80 Huntingdon Reformatory .......................................... 27 Illegal Exhibitions .............................................. 74, §2 Illeditimate Children ............................. 89 90, §5 100 $94 Immoral Resorts ............................................ 74, §2; 80 Incorrigible Children ......................................... 71, §1438 “Incorrigible” Children Defined .................................. 12, §1 Indecent Pictures and Books ........................................ 99 Indigent Children .................................................. 35 Industrial Schools 28, 34; 39, .53 Infectious Diseases ................................................ 91 Inspection ....................................................... 42, §3 Inspection by Board of Public Charities ............................ 48 Intoxicating Liquors ............................. 74, §4; 79, §4; 96, 97 Itinerant Vendors .................................................. 99 Junk Dealers ...................................................... 97 Jurisdiction of Courts .............................................. 24 Juvenile Court .......................................... 12 Kidnapping ........................................................ 102 License to Board Infants ........................................... 41—3 Liquor—Sale of .................................................. 96, 97 Maintenance—Cost of ....................... 24, §2; 33, 34, 35; 76, §7 Maintenance in Industrial Schools .................................. 34 Marriage of Minors ................................................ 79 "Mendicity ........................................................ 74, §3 ' Mines Act ....................................... V .................. 49 Misrepresentation of Age .......................................... 97 Mothers’ Rights ............................................. 85, §3; 88 Neglect—Protection from .......................................... 73 Non—support ......................................... 14, §4; 81, 82, 84 108 INDEX. Obscene Literature ................................................. 99 Opium Dens ..................................................... 78, §2 Orphans ..................................................... 31, 32, 38 Orphans’ Court .......................................... 75, §7; 76, §9 Overseers—See Guardians of the Poor. Parents and Children .............................................. 85 Parole—By Institutions ............................................ 33 Parole, Violation of ................................................ 19 Pawnbrokers ...................................................... 98 Petition in Juvenile Court .............. '. ................. 13, §2; 16, §8 Places of Amusement .................................... 75-, §4; 79, §4 Placing Out .......................... 15, §1§5 and 6; 16, §9; 38, §2; 39 Playing on Musical Instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .; ..... 65; 74, §3 P001 Rooms ........................................................ 94 Poor Houses ....................................................... 38 Probation—Length of ........................................... 16, §8 Probation Oificers .................. ' ............................. 14, §3 Probation Ofl‘icers’ Expenses ... . . . . . . . . . . . . .- ....................... 17 Procuring .......................................................... 80 Prostitution ............................................ 74, §2; 79, 80 Protection from Cruelty ......................... > ................ 73, 78 Protectory for Boys ................................................. 26 Rape ............................................................... 102 Record of Adoption .................................................. 86 Reform Schools ...................................... 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 Reformatory ....................................................... 27 Regulation of Apprentices ......................................... 72 Relief of Deserted Wives and Children .......................... 81. 82 Relief of Destitute Children .................................. 69, §1424 Religious Belief .................................. 16, §9; 40, §5; 75, §7 Rights of Mothers ............................................ 85, §3; 88 St. John’s Orphan Asylum .......................................... 32 St. Vincent’s Home ................................................ 32 Saloons .................................... 74, §4; 79, §4 Seduction .......................................................... 101 Selling Children ................................................... 103 Sending to Immoral Resorts ........................................ 80 “Separation” Defined ............................................ 84, §1 Society for the Protection of Children from Cruelty ................. 39 Special Police ........................................ 70, §1432; 76, §8 Special Schools .................................................... 30 Support of Children by County ...................... 15, §6, 33, 34, 35 Ten-pin Alleys ..................................................... 94 Thaddeus Stevens Industrial School ................................. 28 lNDEX. 109 Theatres ................................................. 74, §4; 79, §4 Tobacco ............................................................ 95 Trafficking in Children ............................................ 103 Trial of Children ................................................. 12, 20 Vagrant Children .................................. 24, 25, 32; 39, §1 Vendors ............................................................ 99 Violation of Parole ................................................ 19 Visitors ........................ 38, §2; 40, §6; 45, §4; 46, §§6—7; 48, 49 Western Pennsylvania Institution for Feeble—minded ............... 29 “White Slave” Act ................................................. 80 Witnesses—Competency of ........................... 83, §3; 85, §3; 89 Working Age ................................... 49, 50; 53, §2; 60, 61 Working Papers—See Employment Certificates. ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA EMPLOYMENT IN ELEVATORS AN ORDINANCE, 10Tn APRIL, 1801. The owner or lessees of all elevators shall employ competent persons to operate and run the same, who shall not be less than sixteen years of age. Whenever it shall become evident to the inspector that any person so employed is incompetent or un— trustworthy, he shall at once notify the user or owner of said elevator, who shall at once replace the incompetent. cmploye with a qualified operator. Provided, That this section shall not apply to elevators used exclusively. for freight, and where no passengers or employes are carried except the one duly authorized to have access to said elevator for the purpose of operating the same. VENDING AN ORDINANCE, 8TH JUNE, 1901. Section 1. From and immediately after the passage of this ordinance the vending of flowers, matches and newspapers or any other articles by girls under the age of sixteen (16) years upon any of the streets of Philadelphia be and is hereby pro- hibited. Section 2. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be liable to a penalty of five ( 5) dollars for each and every offense, to be collected before any magistrate in the city of Philadelphia as like penalties are now, by law. collected. ZlIaZicious mischief by children is dealt with by the ordi- nance on Nuisancesf—where the words “any person” are used. 111 x3; , NJ ‘ .« m . 4.1K» . '3 .70! 659‘? 1’ °~ tmmummuummlmlnmllllmiluuummummum ' N/ll'fiB/UDH7B/HDB7X Tfie Lz'érmy UNIVERSITY r PWNS rL VANIA SCHOOL OF OCIAL WORK l—Sign your name on the book card and leave card in charging tray at desk. Z—Take card of same color as book card from other end of tray. This is dated to tell you the date the book is due to be returned. 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