Section 4
SEC. 4. When the parents of any minor are dead, or by- reason of long absence or legal or physical disability have abandoned it, or cannot support it through vagrancy, negligence, or misconduct, or neglect, or refuse to support it, or unlawfully beat or otherwise habitually maltreat it, or cause or allow it to engage in common begging, or to commit offenses against the law, the Court of First Instance of the province in which the parents reside or the child is found, upon petition filed by some reputable resident of the province, or by any benevolent or charitable association of any of said provinces, may issue an order requiring such parents to show cause, or, if the parents are dead or not found in the province, requiring the fiscal of the province to show cause, at a time and place fixed in the order, why the child should not be taken from its parents, if living; and if upon the hearing it appears that the allegations of the petition are true, and that it is for the best interest of the child, the court may make an order taking it from its parents, if living, and committing it to any suitable orphan asylum, children's home, benevolent or charitable association, or benevolent society or person, to be ultimately placed, by adoption or otherwise, in a home found for it by such asylum, children's home, benevolent or charitable association, society or person, subject to the general supervision of the Public Welfare Commissioner and the rules and regulations prescribed by said officer, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. No bond shall be required in such cases: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall from time to time require a report on the conditions of children in the care of such institution, whether living within or outside the same.