Iditarod pioneer., 1913-08-02

law establishing Juvenile Courts throughout Alaska-a measure that is at present causing much discus sion, and one that meets with the approval of all those who take the time to study and understand its merits.
 CHAPTER g
 An Act to establish Juvenile Courts,
 to provide for the care of depen-
 dent children, to create children's
 guardians in Alaska, and for other
 purposes.
 Section l. That from and after the passage of this act every probate judge in the Territory of Alaska shall be ex- oficio judge of a juvenile court, to have such powers as are hereinafter provided.
 Section ?. Said juvenile judges shall have power to commit to q reform school, to an orphan asylum, to any other public or charitable institution, or to the bolrd of chjldren's guardians for the iudciail division, in which such juvenile judge may be located, as here matter provided for, any white children under sixteen years of age for an indc- terminate period not exceeding the time such child shaf have arrived at the age of twenty-one years:
 (a) Who may be gully of a miade- meanor, under the laws Of the Terri tor of Alaska;
 lb) All children who are destitute of suitable homes and adequate means of earning an honest living:
 Co All children abandoned by their parents or guardians;
 (N AIIchiIdren of habitually drunk en, vicious or unfit parents;
 le) All children kept in vicious or immoral relation;
 lo All children h2b;cually begging or receiving aims;
 lgJ All children known by their language or life to be vicious or in corrigib}e.
 Section 3. Said juvenile courts shall have the power to hold to answer to the district court, any juvenile charged with felony, said juvenile to be tried by the district court, and, if convicted, sentenced by said district court to a re- form school: to arrange for the tenn porary care of such juveniles, pending investigation or judgment by the court, or transportation to the seat of a district court. or to an institution to which they may have been sentenced.
 Section f. That the antecedents, character, and condition of life of each child of which such juvenile courts shall take official notice, shall be in vestigated as fully as possible, and the facts learned entered in permanent records, in which shall also be entered the subsequent history of each child so far as it can be ascertained,
 Section ]. There shall also be created in and for each judicial division of the Territory of Alaska, board to be known as "The Board of Children'S Guardians" composed of the judge of the district court of such division, the Unit ed States marshal for such division, and one women citizen of such division to be appointed by the governor, all of said members shall serve without compensation and shall hold office for the term of three years, unless sooner removed by the governor, excepting in the case of unexpired terms when such appointment shall be for the remainder of such unexpired term. Each of said boards of chlldren's guardians shall elect it's own chairman and secretary, and shall have the power to conclude arrangements with persons or institu- tions for the care of dependent children at such rates as may be agreed upon, and to appoint agents.