as will enable the child to attend school during the entire school year. In all cases where such relief is necessary the said board of education shall be authorized to, and may in their discretion, furnish to such child the necessary textbooks free of charge, in addition to such other necessary assistance or support.

SEC. 2. Payment to family.-For the purposes in this act provided such board of education shall pay, during the school year, to the family of such child a sum not to exceed three dollars a week, nor more than six dollars a week for the children of any one family. Said money shall be paid in the same manner and out of the same fund as are the current expenses for the maintenance of public schools.

SEC. 3. Duty of truant officer.-It shall be the duty of the truant officer or treasurer of the school board in any district where a child is receiving aid under the provisions of this act to disburse the funds herein provided for, and to investigate the environment of the child, and to make an itemized report monthly to the school board or some officer appointed by the board, of the manner in which such funds were expended: Provided, That in cities having a juvenile court such investigations shall be made by such court.

SEC. 4. Teacher to report.-The truant officer shall notify the teacher to whom any child receiving aid under the provisions of this act may be assigned, and it shall be the duty of the teacher having charge of such child to report monthly to the school board through the superintendent of schools, the progress such child is making in his or her school work, and the record of attendance together with such other information as may be deemed necessary. Said truant officer shall receive the same compensation for the time so engaged under the provisions of this act as he receives for similar services performed by him and shall be paid in the same manner.

Approved April 29, 1911.

MINNESOTA.

[Laws 1913, chap. 130.]

An Act Providing for the payment of county aid to mothers of dependent and neglected children under certain circumstances.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. Allowance to needy mothers.-Whenever any child under the age of fourteen years shall be found to be dependent or neglected within the meaning of chapter 285, General Laws 1905, or chapter 232, General Laws 1909, or chapter 27, Revised Laws 1905, and it shall also appear that the mother of such child is a widow, or that her husband, if living, is an inmate of a penal institution or an insane asylum, or because of physical disability is unable to support his family, and that the dependent or neglected condition of such child is due wholly or in part to the poverty of the mother and the want of adequate means to properly care for such child and that the mother of such child is otherwise a proper person to have the custody of such child and that the welfare and best interests of such child will be subserved by permitting it to remain in the custody of its mother, the court may, in its discretion, make and file an order finding and determining such facts, and therein and thereby fix and determine the amount of money, not exceeding $10.00 per month, which it deems necessary for the county to contribute towards the support of such child in her own home.

1

In counties under 50,000 the

1 That is, the juvenile court in counties over 50,000. judge of probate has the power to appoint guardians for dependent, neglected, and delinquent children. Cases involving such children may be brought before the court by petition of any resident of the county.

SEC. 2. Allowance paid out of general county funds.-A certified copy of such order shall be filed with the county auditor of the county of which such child's mother is a resident, and thereupon and thereafter, and so long as such order remains in force and unmodified, it shall be the duty of the county auditor each month to draw his warrant on the general revenue fund of his county in favor of the mother for the amount specified in such order. Such warrant shall be delivered to the clerk of the court making the order and shall by the latter be delivered to the mother upon her executing duplicate receipts therefor, one to be retained by the auditor and the other shall be filed by the clerk with the other records in the proceedings relating to such child. It shall be the duty of the county treasurer to pay such warrant out of the funds in the general revenue fund of the county when properly presented. No such county aid shall be paid towards the support of any child who has arrived at the age of fourteen (14) years, nor to any mother who has not resided in said county one year and in the State two years continuously next preceeding the making of such order.

SEC. 3. Court may make order at any time.-The court may at any time revoke or modify any order previously made; a certified copy of any such subsequent order shall forthwith be filed with the county auditor and thereafter warrants shall be drawn and payments made only in accordance with such subsequently executed order.

Approved March 27, 1913.

MISSOURI.

[Laws 1911, p. 120-122, as amended by Laws 1913, p. 146-7.1]

An Act To provide for the partial support of poor women, whose husbands are dead or convicts, when such women are mothers of children under the age of fourteen (14) years and reside in counties now or hereafter having not less than two hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) inhabitants and not more than five hundred thousand (500,000) inhabitants, and now or hereafter having or holding a juvenile court, with an emergency clause.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows: SEC. 1. County courts to make appropriations.—In every county now containing or that may hereafter contain two hundred and fifty thousand (250,000) inhabitants and less than five hundred thousand (500,000) inhabitants and in which a juvenile court is now being held or may hereafter be held, it shall be the duty of the county court to provide out of the moneys in the county treasury, not already appropriated, an amount sufficient to meet the purposes of this law, but not exceeding in any one year the sum of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000,000) for the partial support of women whose husbands are dead, or whose husbands are prisoners or whose husbands are in either one of the four State hospitals for the insane or in the Missouri colony for the feebleminded and epileptic, when such women are poor and are the mothers of children under the age of fourteen years, and such mothers and children reside in such counties.

SEC. 2. Amount of allowance.-The allowance to each of such women shall not exceed ten dollars ($10.00) a month when she has but one child under the age of fourteen (14) years, and if she has more than one child under the age of fourteen years, it shall not exceed the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) a month

1 The amendment of 1913 extended the provisions of the law to women whose husbands were in State hospitals for the insane or the Missouri colony for the feeble-minded and epileptic.

for the first child and five dollars ($5.00) a month for each of the other children under the age of fourteen years.

SEC. 3. Conditions of allowance.-Such allowance shall be made by the juvenile court and only upon the following conditions: (1) The child or children, for whose benefit the allowance is made, must be living with the mother of such child or children; (2) the allowance shall be made only when in the absence of such allowance, the mother would be required to work regularly away from her home and children, and when by means of such allowance, she will be able to remain at home with her children; (3) the mother must, in the judgment of the juvenile court, be a proper person, morally, physically and mentally, for the bringing up of her children; (4) such allowance shall in the judgment of the court be necessary to save the child or children from neglect; (5) no person shall receive the benefit of this act who shall not have been a resident of the county in which such application is made for at least two years next before the making of such application for such allowance.

SEC. 4. When allowance shall cease.-Whenever any child shall reach the age of fourteen years, any allowance made to the mother of such child for the benefit of such child shall cease. The juvenile court may, in its discretion, at any time before such child reaches the age of fourteen years, discontinue or modify the allowance to any mother and for any child.

SEC. 5. Partial relief.—Should the fund herein authorized be sufficient to permit an allowance to only a part of the persons coming within the provisions of this law, the juvenile court shall select those cases in most urgent need of such allowance.

SEC. 6. To whom applicable.-The provision of this law shall not apply to any woman whose husband is not dead or who is not confined in the Missouri State Penitentiary or other prison in this State, and in the latter case it shall not apply unless such prisoner is the lawful husband of the woman seeking such allowance.

SEC. 7. Penalty for fraud.—Any person procuring, or attempting to procure, any allowance for a person not entitled thereto, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars 1 ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the county jail, for a period of not more than one year, or by both fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 8. Motion to set aside allowance.-In each case where an allowance is made to any woman under the provisions of this act, a judgment entry to that effect shall be entered upon the records of the juvenile court making such allowance, and it shall be the right of any taxpaying citizen at any time to file a motion to set aside such judgment, and on such motion the juvenile court, or the court to whom such motion may be taken on a change of venue, shall hear evidence, either with or without a jury, as either side may demand, and may make a new order granting or refusing such allowance, and from such order, so made, an appeal shall lie as in ordinary civil cases. If the judgment, making such allowance, is not appealed from or is affirmed on appeal, the person filing such motion shall pay all of the costs of such motion and proceedings subsequent thereto. Such motion may be renewed from time to time, but not oftener than once in any calendar year.

SEC. 9. Repeal.-All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are, in so far as they so conflict, hereby repealed.

SEC. 10. Emergency clause.-There being no adequate provision of law covering the subject of partial support of poor women, an emergency within the

meaning of the constitution is hereby declared to exist; therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved April 7, 1911. Amendment approved March 25, 1913.

OPERATION OF LAW IN JACKSON COUNTY.

By population limitation this law is applicable only to Jackson County. It is administered under the juvenile court of Jackson County at Kansas City. From June 2, 1911, to December 31, 1913, 144 applications were passed on by the court, of which number 62 were refused and 82 granted. During this period 22 of the allowances made were discontinued for the following reasons: In 8 cases the widows remarried; in 1, the husband was released from prison; in 2, the children were not being cared for; in 5, the incomes were considered sufficient for care of the children; in 6, request was made by the mothers that the allowance be set aside because they were in a position to care for their children by obtaining work.

For the month of December, 1913, 60 women were receiving assistance to the amount of $884.50. The largest amount paid any family was $25 and the smallest $8, an average per family of $14.74 a month. The average amount to each individual was $3.27 per month; the average amount to each child $4.21 per month.

In the 60 families 210 children were being benefited by the allowances, 168 under 14 years and 42 over 14 years. Of this number, 117 children were in ward school, 6 in high school, and 48 children were under school age; 20 of the children over 14 were at work; 22 were in school, 6 of these being in high school.

The law provides an appropriation of not exceeding $12,000 a year for the payment of allowances to widows. During the month of January, 1914, 4 more widows were added to the pay roll, making the total $928.50 per month. At the beginning of February, 1914, there were on file 28 applications with only $71.50 left out of the $1,000 available monthly for granting allowances. (From the report of J. L. Gillham, deputy probation officer in charge of widows' allowances, Feb. 4, 1914.)

FORMS USED IN JUVENILE COURT OF JACKSON COUNTY (KANSAS CITY).

APPLICATION OF WIDOW FOR ALLOWANCE.

Give your name in full:

How long have you lived at your own property? What property have you, real or personal? State fully: If you rent, who is your landlord? Amount of rent Where were you born? Nationality:

you pay?

born?

cause, and date of his death:

owing:

Give your address: your present address?

Your age: Do you own

Nationality:

What rent do Account of outstanding debts: Where was your husband Give place,

How

Give his name in full: Place and date of his imprisonment: If your husband is dead, state what property he left, including life insurance: Give the names of all your children; also date and place of birth: many children are living with you? children are married, give their names and addresses: you lived in Jackson County continuously last before the making of this application? Give dates: From State what your income

to

Name them:

salary of any child or children that you may have employed: money in bank?

Amount:

If any of your
How long have

is, including the Have you any What bank? Do you authorize me to inquire of the bank? Give date and place of your marriage: Have you your marriage certificate? How many times have you been married? Give the name of your father: Give his age and address, if living: Give the name of your mother: Give her age and address, if living: Give the names and addresses of your brothers: Give the names and addresses of your sisters: Give the name of your husband's father: Give his age and address, if living: Give the name of your husband's mother: Give her age and address, if living: Give the names and addresses of your husband's brothers: Give the names and addresses of your husband's sisters: State what relief you have received from public or private sources: amounts, and the names and locations of institutions: Are you employed away from home? If so, state where, giving name and address of How long since your husband's death If an allowance is made you,

Give

your employer, and what you earn: have you been employed away from home? what work can you procure and do at home, and what can you earn from it? If the court refused you an allowance, would you be required to work regularly away from your home and children for their support? that may be allowed you that would enable you to and take care of them?

What is the least amount stay at home with your children If an allowance is made will you agree to stay at At any time during your

home with your children and properly rear them?

married life were you and your husband separated or
living with your husband at the time of his death?
of your physician :
Will you notify the

Give name and address chief probation officer, in writGive the names and addresses

ing. of any change in your address promptly?
of five (5) persons who have known you at least two (2) years:
State of Missouri, county of Jackson, ss:

of lawful age, being duly sworn, on her oath states, that each and all the foregoing answers to the foregoing questions are identically as she made them, and that each and every statement in the above application is true.

Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notary public in and for Jackson County, Missouri, this day of

19-.

in Jackson County continuously?

of

DEAR SIR OR MADAM: Your name has been given us as reference by who is applying for a widow's allowance. Will you please answer the following questions? Same will be treated strictly confidential: How long have you known applicant? How long has the applicant lived Is she, in your opinion, a good moral Christian woman? (yes or no.) Does she go to church ; if so, which? Would she, in your opinion, give the children a good education? What is her reputation for honesty? What is the applicant's general reputation? How does she care for her home? Does she properly care for her children? Would you consider applicant competent morally, physically, and mentally to rear children? Business or occupation town

Dated this

Name

State

City

or

Name of applicant:

live in
rooms. Flat:
Rooming or boarding house:
cleanliness:

pool halls, etc.:

Why?

(setting this information opposite each name):
Denomination:
Attendant:

Housing conditions: Family
Detached house:

Name of pastor:

Religion:

Conditions in the home regarding sanitation and Character of the neighbors and neighborhood, in regard to saloons, Would you advise removal in case that allowance was granted? School record: Names of children attending school, age, grade Address: Do children go to any church services? Name of Sunday-school Address: Physical condition of each of the children, setting out if any of the children are abnormal in any way: Literacy of the applicant: Left school at what age: Why did you leave? Can the applicant read and write? Has the applicant any physical defects? Do you belong to any society benefit or otherwise? Does the applicant use any intoxicating liquors? Does the applicant use tobacco in any form? Has the applicant ever been in jail or prison? Date:

In St. Louis a municipal commission to study the question of the care of delinquent, dependent, and defective children, which made its report in 1911, recommended that every dependent child, not in need of hospital treatment,