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 74 FIFTY—NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 960. 1906. °*’*¤*°¤· °‘°- United States, not capital or otherwise infamous, and not punishable bv imprisonment in the penitentiary, committed within the Districtof E¤¤>¤r¤¢>¤¤- Columbia, except libel, conspiracy, and violations of the post-office and pension laws of the United States, and also of all offenses of persons under seventeen years of age hereafter committed against the laws, ordinances, and regulations of the District of Columbia, and shall have power to examine and commit or hold to bail all persons under seventeen years of age, either for trial or further examination, in all cases, whether cognizable therein or in the supreme court of the dP*°*¤=¢*i°¤ 0* ¤'¤“· District of Columbia. Said juvenile court shall have all the powers `iiii. zz, p. sm. and jurisdiction conferred by the Act entitled “An Act for the protection of children, and so forth," approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, upon the police court of the District of Columbia, and shall also have original and exclusive jurisdiction of all cases involving the legal punishment of children under the provisionsof 03°P°“d°“” °h*1**’°¤· “‘An Act to provide for the care of dependent children in the District vm. 2v, p. asa of Columbia and to create a Board of (.hildren’s Guardians,” approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two (Twenty-seventh ‘ Statutes, page two hundred and sixty-eight), and of the Acts amenda- Dclmquenr chil- tory thereof; also of all cases under the provisions of. "An Act to "'$'.1a_°§‘,,_ ms, enlarge the powers of the courts of the District of Columbia in cases ‘ involvin delinquent children, and for other purposes," approved 'March third, nineteen hundred and one (Thirty-lirst Statutes, page ten hundred and ninety-three), and said juvenile court may hereafter, . concurrently with the criminal court, have and exercise all the powers and jurisdiction conferred by said last-mentioned Act upon the police Ncmuppoi-e by par- court of the District of Columbia in the case of parents or ruardians °'"'* °°°‘ who shall refuse or neglect to provide food, clothing, and shelter for Hoviw- any child under the age of fourteen years: And it isjin ther provided, “_§“cgP°¤¤*°¤ °* **1* That the court may impose conditions upon any person found guilty ` under the said last-mentioned Act, and so long as such person shall comply therewith to the satisfaction of the court the sentence imposed may be suspended, and may impose similar conditions in all cases of ` dependent or delinquent children cognizable under existing laws in any court of the District of Columbia, except in the cases hereinbefore H¤hi¤¤n1¤¤m¤<·>·- already excepted; and the said juvenile court may also hear, try, and determine al ones of persons less than seventeen years of age charged with habitual truancy from school, and in its discretion to commit them to the Board of Children’s Guardians, who are hereby given the care and supervision thereof when so committed. No person under seventeen years of age shall hereafter be placed in any institution supported wholly or in part at the public expense until the fact of delinquency ondependency has been iirst ascertained and declared by the ggqigngurgelqtlsmll said juvenile court. All children of the class now liable to becom- ‘ mitted to the Reform School for Boys and the Reform School for Girls shall hereafter be committed by the juvenile court to said schools d ._'_1;;_81jg¤I:jl;;€1s¤hir respectively. All other children delinquent, neglected, or dependent ‘ (with the exceptions berembefore stated) shall hereafter be committed by the juvenile court to the care of the Board of Children’s Guardians, either fora limited period on probation or during minority, as circumstances may require, and no c ild once committed to any public institution by the order of the juvenile court shall be dischar ed or paroled therefrom or transferred to anotherinstitution without the consent and approval of the said court. Dérggpjg (gf  SEQ. 9. _That the terms "clependent" or "‘ neglected " children us l§;a·a··eni1ni·e¤. IIS9d1H lJl1lS AGC shall be held to mean and include any child who is · destitute or homeless or abandoned or dependent upon the public for support. or who has not the proper parental care or guardianship, or who habitually begs or receives alms. or whose home, by reason of neglect or cruelty or depravity of the parents, is an unfit place for