Order as to vagrant, incorrigible, neglected, or abused child.
Section 770
SEC. 770. Order as to vagrant, incorrigible, neglected, or abused child. — When the parent or parents of any minor child shall be unable through vagrancy, negligence, or misconduct to support such child, or if able, shall neglect or refuse to support such child, or when such parent or parents shall unlawfully beat or otherwise habitually maltreat such child, or cause or allow it to engage in common begging, the Court of First Instance of the province in which the parents live or in which the child is found, if vagrant, upon complaint by affidavit of some reputable citizen of the province in behalf of such child, setting forth the facts bringing the case within this section, may issue a summons requiring such parent or parents to appear and answer such complaint, and if the parent or parents can not be found, the summons may require the fiscal of the province to appear in the interest of his parent or parents; and if, upon hearing all the matters complained of, the court find the same to be true, and that it is for the best interest of such child to be taken from such parent or parents, the court may make an order to that effect and it may order the placing of such child in any suitable orphan asylum or children's home, or with some other benevolent society, to be taken and cared for and placed in homes found for them, by adoption or otherwise, by such asylum, children's home, or society.