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 F IFTY-SIXE H CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 786. 1900. 497 child the commissioner shall order a copy of the petition and order thereon served on him and the child rsonally, if found in the district, and, if not, that a notice thereoimbe published once a week for ' three successive weeks in such newspaper as the commissioner directs the last ublication to be at least four weeks before the time aplpointed for the lliearin and in all cases a copy of the petition and or er shall be served on gre child. Like notice shall also be published when a child has no parent living and no guardian or next of kin in said district. The commissioner may order such further notice as he deems necessary or roper. Sec. 25. Ifp the child is of the age of fourteen years or upward the w§§,‘}“§§j,§,f,,§,j‘lldadoption shall not be made without his consent, given the commissioner on privy examination. _ Sec. 26. If upon such petition so presented and consented to the ,,_,,%°§§,‘f,‘§,,°,jf§§§§§]°“ commissioner is satisfied of the identity and relations of the persons, and that the petitioner is of sufficient ability and in all respects a proper person to bring up the child and furnish_ suitable nurture and education, having reference to the degree and condition of the parents, and that It is Ht and proper that such adoption should take effect, a ' decree shall be made setting forth the facts and ordering that from the date of the decree the child shall, to all legal intents and purposes, be the child of the petitioner. · _ Sec. 27. A child so adopted shall be deemed, for the purposes of c,§§f;f“° °‘ “d°P°°d inheritance and all other legal consequences and incidents of the natural relation of parents and children, the child of the parents by adoption, the same as if he had been born to them in lawful wedlock, except that he shall not be capable- of taking property expressly limited to heirs of the body or bodies of the parent by adoption, nor property from the lineal or collateral kindred of said parents by right of repre- S6lSt1?dlO2lS. The parents of such child shall be deprived by the said ,(§§‘§§,§i‘g§"°m,{’§§§§ proceedings of all legal rights as respects the child, and the child shall ¤¤irr We be freed from all obligations of maintenance and obedience as respects his parents. Sec. 29. Any petitioner parent or other party to the proceedings ,,,f},*§P§f“,j,,j,f,§’,j',,,‘,i,§’,'§Z may appeal to the district court from the judgment of the commissioner ¢¤¤- on suc petition in like manner as appealsmay be taken from judgments of such commissioner in proceedings respecting the administration of estates of decedents; and any child made the subject of such petition may, by his guardian ad litem, appeal in like manner; but no bond shall be required of, or costs awarded against such child or guardian ad litem. Sec. 30. A parent who has not, before the hearing of a petition for bellgllggn ¤PP¢¤1 my ' _ the adoption of his child, had personal notice thereof, may, at any time ` within one year after actual notice, apply to the district court to reverse the judgment and the court, after due notice, may, in its discretion, reverse or modify the same. Sec. 31. If in a petition for the adoption of a child a chan e of the a(§)h%g§i,3{d¤¤m° ef child s name is requested, the commissioner upon adjudging tghe adop- P tion may also adjudge such change of name and grant a certificate thereof without the notice required by the following sections. CHAPTER FIVE. or THE CHANGE or EAME. Sec. ‘ Sec. 32. Application for change of name. - I 33. Proceedings 011 application. Sec. 32. A lications for chan e of names of other vcrsons ma — "§’*Q,“°§‘,“°“ ’°’ be heard and ?lEetern1ined by the diitrict court. No lawflul change (3’ cing oh me` wor. xxxr———32