in the code of civil procedure. A similar recognizance may be taken by the court or magistrate for the subsequent production of such child at a time and place to be specified therein, pending the final termination of the proceedings, and noncompliance therewith shall subject the person giving the same to the same punishment. Such failure to produce the child shall in either case vacate the said recognizance and warrant the immediate arrest of the child by order of the court or magistrate. But nothing in this act contained shall authorize the acceptance of such personal recognizance for the production of a child who has been the subject of a crime or a witness to its commission by another. (As amended by chapter 656 of the Laws of 1905.)

§ 941. Within ten days after the adjournment of any criminal court of record in this state, the district attorney of the county in which the court shall be held, shall furnish to the clerk of the county a certified statement containing the names of all. persons convicted of crime in said court; the crime for which convicted; whether the conviction was upon a trial or upon a plea of guilty and whether sentence was suspended or the defendant placed on probation; the cases in which counsel were assigned by the court to defend the defendant; the sex, age, nativity, residence and occupation of the defendant; whether married or single; the degree of education and religious instruction; whether parents are living or dead; whether temperate or intemperate, and whether before convicted or not of any crime, and any other information regarding them as may seem to him expedient. If necessary in order to obtain information of these facts, the defendant may be interrogated upon oath in court by the district attorney before judgment is pronounced. He shall also furnish to the clerk of the court a certified statement containing the names of all probation officers appointed by the court, with their addresses and date of appointment.

§ 942. The clerk or the deputy clerk of the court of special sessions in the city and county of New York shall on or before the first day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and quar terly thereafter, transmit to the secretary of state a tabulated and certified statement, in the form prescribed by the secretary of state, containing the name of every person convicted of a crime, of every person against whom sentence was suspended, and of

every person placed on probation in such court, after October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and since the date. of the closing of each last preceding quarterly report; a description of the offense of which such person was convicted; whether the conviction was upon a trial or upon a plea of guilty; and the date of the conviction; and also a certified statement containing the names of all probation officers appointed by the court, with their address and date of appointment. The police clerks of the city magistrates of the city of New York, shall on or before February first, nineteen hundred and one, and annually thereafter, transmit to the secretary of state, a tabulated statement made from their records, showing the number of males and females convicted of crime during each month in the preceding quarter in the several courts of such city magistrates; the number convicted of each offense, the number sentenced, the number fined, the number of those against whom sentence was suspended, and the number placed on probation; and shall also furnish a certified statement containing the names of all probation officers appointed by the magistrates, with their address and date of appointment. Such statements shall be in the form prescribed by the secretary of state.

§ 943. On or before the first day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and quarterly thereafter, the clerk of each county shall transmit to the secretary of state a tabulated and certified statement, in the form prescribed by the secretary of state, of all the matters contained in the statements filed with such clerks by the district attorney of such county after October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four; and of the name of each person shown to be convicted by a court of special sessions by the certificate of conviction filed with him by magistrates holding courts of special sessions after October thirtyfirst, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and since the date of the closing of each last preceding quarterly report made after October thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and showing the offense for which each person was so convicted; whether the conviction was upon a trial or upon a plea of guilty; the sentence imposed, whether the sentence was suspended, and whether the defendant was placed on probation. Said certified statement shall also contain the names of all probation officers

appointed by said courts of special sessions, with their address and the date of their appointment.

§ 946. The secretary of state shall cause this title to be published with forms and instructions for the execution of the duties therein prescribed, and copies thereof to be furnished annually to each county clerk. The forms furnished by the secretary of state as herein provided, shall contain in tabulated form, the nature of every offense upon which a conviction was had, the court before which the defendant was convicted, the character of the sentence imposed, the cases where defendant had been previously convicted, the cases where sentence was suspended, the cases where the defendant was placed upon probation, and the cases where probation was revoked, together with the age, sex, nativity and residence of the defendant. And a sufficient number of the copies of this title, and of such instructions, and of the forms to be used by the district attor ney, or clerk or deputy clerk of the court of special sessions of the city and county of New York, shall also be furnished to each clerk to enable him to furnish at least one copy thereof annually to the district attorney, and the clerk of the court of special sessions of the city and county of New York and the county clerk shall distribute the copies of this title and of such forms and instructions accordingly, and when said county clerk is not a salaried officer his disbursements and compensation for his services under this act shall be a county charge. The expense of the secretary of state in publishing this title and distributing copies thereof, and of such forms and instructions as are herein required, shall be paid by the treasurer of the state, upon the warrant of the comptroller, from moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Chapter 382, Laws of 1902.

AN ACT to provide for the appointment of a female probation officer in the court of special sessions of the first division of the city of New York, and to compensate her for such services. Section 1. The justices of the court of special sessions of the first division of the city of New York are hereby empowered to appoint a female probation officer in that court.

§ 2. By and with the consent and concurrence of the board of estimate and apportionment, the justices of this court may fix the compensation of such probation officer at a sum not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, payable in equal monthly installments.

PROBATION OFFICERS IN THE CITY OF BUFFALO.

AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and five of the laws of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Buffalo," in relation to the police justice.

Chapter 627, Laws of 1901.

Section 1. Chapter one hundred and five of the laws of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An act to revise the charter of the city of Buffalo," is hereby amended by adding therein after section three hundred and eighty-four-a two new sections to be known as sections three hundred and eighty-four-b and three hundred and eighty-four-c, to read as follows:

§ 384-b. Probation officers.-The police justice shall have authority to appoint or designate not more than five discreet persons of good character to serve as probation officers during the pleasure of the police justice; said probation officers to receive no compensation from the public treasury. Whenever any child under or apparently under the age of sixteen years shall have been arrested, it shall be the duty of said probation officers to make such investigation as may be required by the court, to be present in court in order to represent the interests of the child; when the case is heard to furnish to the police justice such information and assistance as he may require, and to take charge of any child before and after trial as may be directed by the court.

§ 384-c. Whenever any such child is found guilty or pleads guilty to the commission of any crime or misdemeanor before the police justice, the said police justice may in his discretion suspend sentence during the good behavior of the child so convicted. The child so convicted may be placed in the care of said probation officer for such time not to exceed three months

and upon such conditions as may seem proper. Said probation officers shall have the power to bring the child so convicted before the police justice at any time within three months from the date of conviction for such disposition as may be just. When practicable said child shall be placed with a probation officer of the same religious faith as that of the child's parents.

CHILDREN'S COURT AND PROBATION OFFICERS,
ROCHESTER.

AN ACT to amend chapter fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled "An act to further amend chapter one hundred and forty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, entitled 'An act to amend and consolidate the several acts in relation to the charter of the city of Rochester,' and to consolidate therewith the several acts in relation to the charter of said city."

Chapter 543, Laws of 1905.

Section 1. Section two hundred and sixty-five of chapter fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty, as amended by chapter five hundred and sixty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 265. All cases involving the commitment or trial of children actually or apparently under the age of sixteen years for any violation of law or ordinance before the police justice or police court of the city of Rochester, shall be heard and determined in a separate courtroom, to be known as the children's courtroom, and separate and apart from the trial of other criminal cases, of which session a separate docket and record shall be kept. Whenever a child actually or apparently under the age of sixteen years is taken into custody in the city of Rochester, such child shall be arraigned in the children's courtroom and shall not be taken knowingly to that part of the police court where other criminal trials are had; and if through an inadvertence any such child shall be brought before that part of the police court, as soon as the age of such child is discovered the hearing of the case shall be transferred to, and the case shall be heard and determined in, the