1. Attention is called to section 224 of the Civil Code in accordance with which a child not retained by the mother must be legally relinquished before it can be adopted. This relinquishment must be expressed in writing, signed and acknowledged before an officer authorized to take acknowledgments, or before the secretary of one of the organizations mentioned below. Before adoption can take place a copy of the relinquishment must be filed with the State Board of Charities and Corrections. 2. Attention is called to Chapter 569, Statutes 1911, providing for the supervision and control of the State Board of Charities and Corrections of the placing of dependent children into homes, which makes it a misdemeanor for any person, association or society to engage in the work of placing children into homes without a license from the State Board of Charities and Corrections. The following agencies have been licensed to place dependent children into homes and to arrange for adoption: Berkeley Welfare Society, 2120 Grove street, Berkeley. Children's Home Society, 919 E. Twenty-fifth street, Los Angeles. Children's Home Society (Branch), 3491 Sixty-sixth street, Oakland. Catholic Ladies' Aid Society, City Hall, Oakland. Oakland Associated Charities, City Hall, Oakland. Little Children's Aid, 995 Market street, San Francisco. Children's Agency of the Associated Charities, 1500 Jackson street, San Francisco. Eureka Benevolent Society, 436 O'Farrell street, San Francisco. Native Sons' and Daughters' Central Committee on Homeless Children, 955 Phelan Building, San Francisco, 322 N. Van Ness avenue, Los Angeles. 3. Each licensee shall use due diligence to prevent the abandonment of the children, which is, according to sections 270-271 and 271a of the Penal Code, a penal offense. 4. A licensee shall not be permitted to advertise that he will procure the adoption of children or to hold out inducements to mothers to part with their offspring. 5. Maternity hospitals and homes shall report on the usual report forms to the State Board of Charities and Corrections within twenty-four hours the name and address of any person other than a parent or relative by blood or marriage, or the name and address of the organization or institution into whose custody a child is given on discharge from the licensed premises. Records.