(Juvenile Court Blank No. 12.)
INSTRUCTIONS
TO
Probation Officers
BY JUVENILE COURT.
In appointing probation officers, the
court places a
faithfulness and wisdom of the persons so
designated. There is no more
work than that of saving children, and
much will depend upon your faithfulness.
This appointment is made under the pro-
visions of a law enacted by the legislature
of 1899.
called to the last section of that act [section
21 ], which declares the purpose of the law,
as follows:
This act shall be liberally construed to
the purpose that its end may be carried out,
to-wit: that the care, custody and discipline
of a child shall approximate as nearly
may be that which should be given by its
parents, and in all cases where it can be
properly done, the child be placed in an
approved family home and become a mem-
ber of the family by legal adoption
otherwise."
It will be the endeavor of the court to
special reliance upon the
important
Your attention is particularly
as
or
carry out both the letter and the spirit of
this act, ard to this end the court will have
in mind the following considerations, in
the order rnamed:
