is paid. It shall be the duty of the regular Judge of said Court to furnish the Board of Revenue or other governing body, of such county, a certified copy of the order, or orders, making such appointment, or appointments. Nothing in this Section contained shall be so construed as making it mandatory upon said regular Judge to appoint a special Judge, unless he shall deem it necessary; and provided further that said regular Judge may appoint a special Judge, for a portion of the time of such absence, sickness or other inability; and provided that he may appoint one person to serve as special Judge during a part of such time and another to serve during the remainder thereof.

Section 7. There shall be a Judge for each of said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts, whose term of office shall be for six (6) years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified, as provided for herein. If in any county or counties, described in this Act there exists at the time of the passage of this Act, a Domestic Relations Court, or a Court of Domestic Relations, with a Senior Judge and an Associate Judge, whose terms of office are unexpired, then and in that event, such Senior Judge of such Domestic Relations Court shall, upon the approval of this Act by the Governor be and shall become the Judge of the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court of such county, and the Governor of Alabama shall issue to him a commission as Judge of said Court, as provided by law for commissioned officers. The successor or successors of said Senior Judge, and in such counties which have no such Senior Judge, a Judge for such Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts, and his successor, or successors, shall be appointed by the Governor of Alabama for a term of six (6) years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Such Judge shall have been a citizen of the state, and of the county in which said court exercises its jurisdiction, for at least five (5) years before the beginning of his term of office, shall be learned in the law, and shall be not less than twenty-five years of age. He shall be a man of high moral character, of clean life, and shall be selected for his special fitness by training, education and experience to deal with problems of dependent, neglected and delinquent children, and of the home and family life. During his term of office he shall not engage in any other gainful occupation, or calling, but shall devote all of his time to the duties of said office. The salary of the Judges of said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts shall be Forty-eight Hundred ($4,800.00) dollars per year, payable in twelve (12) equal monthly installments out of the general funds of the county in which said court is located and exercises its jurisdiction. Where not otherwise provided by law, the said Judge of said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts shall have authority to fix the character and form of the records of such courts, and to make

and promulgate rules of procedure, necessary, or convenient for the preparation and trial or disposition of causes, and the transaction of the business of said courts.

Section 8. Said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court shall have a clerk and register at each place in said counties where it holds its sessions. The Judge of said courts shall designate a probation officer or officers or deputy probation officer or officers at each place in said county where it holds its sessions to act as clerks and registers of said court at such place and when so designated such probation officer or officers shall be known as clerk and register of said court at such place and shall have in addition to the authority herein conferred on probation officers, all the power and authority as to causes and matters in said. courts as clerks of Circuit Courts and Registers in Chancery possess as to such courts and causes. Before entering into the discharge of such duties, such probation officer or officers shall make and file a bond in the sum of Two Thousand ($2,000.00) dollars, conditioned as clerks of Circuit Courts bonds are conditioned. Such last named bonds shall be taken and approved as are the bonds of Circuit Clerks. The premium on such bonds shall be paid by the county in which said court exercises its jurisdiction.

Section 9. It shall be the duty of the Circuit Solicitor of such counties, who is hereby made an officer of said court, either himself or by his deputy, to represent the State in any or all causes tried in said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. In any such cause in which said solicitor, or his deputy, so appears, if the Judge hearing such cause shall order costs taxed and collected in accordance with the provisions of this Act, there shall be taxed and collected in addition to the other costs, a solicitor's fee, not to exceed twenty-five ($25.00) dollars, which when collected shall be paid into the County Treasury of said county. It shall be the duty of the clerks and registers of said court to report and pay to the County Treasurer, on or before the fifth day of each month, all such fees so taxed and collected during the preceding month. There is hereby created, for the purpose of aiding in carrying out the provisions of this Act, an additional deputy solicitor in all such counties, who shall be assigned exclusively to the Court herein created, and who shall be appointed by the solicitor and who shall serve at the will of the solicitor. Such additional deputy solicitor shall receive a salary of Three Hundred ($300.00) dollars per month, payable monthly upon the warrant of the solicitor drawn upon the County Treasurer, whose duty it shall be to pay said warrant or warrants out of the general fund of such county.

Section 10. Such dockets as are necessary or convenient shall be kept at each place where such Juvenile and Domestic

Relations Courts holds its sessions. It is hereby declared to be in the interest of the public good that all cases arising under this Act, and of which said courts are given jurisdiction, shall have a speedy trial, and to that end the Judge of said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts shall have authority to fix the days or time when the cases on said respective dockets at said respective places, where said court holds its sessions, shall be called to trial; provided such cases shall not be tried at an earlier date than five (5) days from the services of the process or warrant; if objections thereto is made by the defendant, or respondent, or by the parent, parents, custodian or guardian ad litem of respondent.

Section 11. The costs and fees in said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts shall be the same as in Circuit and Chancery Courts, but shall be taxed and collected or any part thereof, only when so ordered by the Judge of said court. Realizing that most of those who will have to do with said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts are poor and without the means to pay costs or fees, the Judge of such court is hereby authorized by order to tax as costs in any cause, which shall be in lieu of all other costs provided for in this Act, a fixed sum not to exceed Twenty-five ($25.00) dollars.

Section 12. In all cases of misdemeanor of which said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts are herein given original and exclusive jurisdiction, or of which said courts shall be given jurisdiction by any other Act, complaints shall be made to the chief probation officer of said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts, or to some one designated by him, who shall cause the facts stated to be true by such complainant to be reduced to writing. Such complainant, and said written statement of facts shall be brought before the Judge of said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court or the solicitor or any deputy solicitor of the Circuit Court. When the complainant and such written statement are presented to either of the officers named in the preceding sentence the officer before whom said complainant and such written statement are brought, shall examine said complainant and any other person or persons, under oath or affirmation concerning such statement, and any other matters by him deemed necessary in relation to such complaint, and if such officer have probable cause for believing that the offense complained of has been committed in such county and that the person accused has committed same, he shall have authority to issue a warrant for the arrest of said accused person returnable to said Juvenile and Domestic Rela-tions Court, and to fix the amount of bail bond that said accused person shall give; provided that at any time either of said officers may increase or reduce the amount of bail as may seem just; and provided further that the officer issuing such warrant: may in his discretion at the time of issuing same endorse thereon

that the officer serving same may accept the signature of the defendant on said bail bond as sufficient security. Either of the officers mentioned herein, or the sheriff of such county may approve said bail bond.

Section 13. Such warrants and other process from such courts shall be executed and returned by the sheriff of such counties, as are warrants and processes issued from and returnable to the Circuit Courts of such counties; provided, however, that in addition to the sheriff of said County or his deputy, any probation officer of said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, or any police officer of any municipality in such county or any constable of such counties shall also have authority to serve same, and his return shall have the same force and effect as that of the Sheriff. The officer who receives such warrants shall serve same promptly and shall immediately thereafter make return thereof to the said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. In the trial of all misdemeanor cases arising under this Act, or of which said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts are otherwise given jurisdiction, said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts shall determine both the law and the facts without the intervention of a jury and shall award such judgment, under the terms of this Act, or as is provided by law, as shall seem just. From such judgment the defendant shall have the right to appeal to the Circuit Court of such county and to demand in said Circuit Court a trial by jury, as provided for herein.

Section 14. In the trial of any misdemeanor of which such Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts are given exclusive and original jurisdiction by the terms of this Act, or by any other Act, or jurisdiction by transfer from another court, upon the entry of a plea of guilty or upon conviction, the Judge of said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court may, in his discretion by proper order entered upon the minutes of said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts defer, or withhold sentence, or the imposition of the penalty provided by law, and may by such order release the defendant on probation under such terms and conditions as to him shall seem just and conducive to the ends sought in this Act; or the said Judge imposing sentence may by such order suspend such sentence or stay the execution thereof, or any part thereof, and may by such order, release such defendant on probation upon such terms and conditions as to said Judge shall seem just and conducive to the ends sought in this Act. At the time of withholding or suspending such sentence, the said Judge shall have the right to order, as a condition thereto, that the defendant execute a probation bond or an appearance bond, to be approved by said Judge in such sum as shall seem just, conditioned to comply with the terms of the said order or

stay or suspension or release, or to appear in said court at such times as such appearance bond may require during the term of such sentence. Such bond may be with or without surety.

Section 15. If at any time the Judge of said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts be satisfied by such evidence or proof as to him shall seem sufficient that such defendant has violated the terms of any such order of release, or of any such probation, or appearance bond, said Judge may forthwith or after further probation, without notice to such defenadant issue a warrant for the arrest of such defendant, to bring such defendant before the court instanter, or that said defendant shall appear before the court at a time fixed in said warrant of arrest, in which latter case pending such time such defendant shall have the right to bail in such reasonable sum as the Court or Judge thereof shall fix, failing to make, which defendant shall be committed to jail to be brought before the court for the imposition of the stayed sentence, or to serve the suspended sentence, as the case may be; in the last contingency the said Judge shall set aside the suspension of such sentence before issuing said warrant. The Judge of such Juvenile and Domestic Relations Courts shall also have the right and authority from time to time after any part of such sentence has been served to release such defendant from the remaining part of such sentence, and to suspend the remaining part thereof, and to enforce or re-enforce the remaining part as said Judge had in the first instance. The terms of such sentence, or of any remaining part thereof, after a part thereof shall have been served, shall commence from the date upon which sentence, or such remaining part thereof, is ordered to be enforced. No such sentence, or any part thereof, shall be stayed or suspended for a period longer than one year, not shall said sentence, or any part thereof, be enforced after said period of one year from the date of the original stay or suspension thereof. If at any time after the original stay or suspension of said sentence, it shall appear to the satisfaction of said Judge, that such defendant had complied faithfully with the terms of said stay or suspension, the said Judge may enter an order staying or suspending such sentence absolutely, in which case such defendant shall be released therefrom.

Section 16. Upon the violation of the terms of any bail, appearance, or probation bond provided for in this Act, or under the terms of any other Act giving said Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court jurisdiction, the said Judge sitting as the court shall have authority and shall proceed with the forfeiture of such bonds in the same way in which bail bonds are forfeited in the Circuit Courts of such counties. Any money collected on such probation, or appearance bonds shall be held by said register and clerk for the use of such wife, child or children, to be