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SEC. 4. To whom law does not apply. The provision of this act shall not apply to any child which has property of its own sufficient for its support, nor to any child which does not reside with its mother.

SEC. 5. Purpose of act.-It is the purpose and intention of this act to keep the children, to which it is applicable, together under the guidance and control of their mother, and that the mother shall make a home for the children; and if, in the judgment of the tribunal which is to administer this law as hereinafter provided, any mother of such children is improvident, careless or negligent in the expenditure of the money received pursuant to this act, such tribunal may direct that such money shall be paid to some person, whom it shall designate, to be used for the support of such mother and children.

SEC. 6. Jurisdiction.—The juvenile court in each county or whatever tribunal is charged by law with the discharge of the duties of such court, shall have exclusive jurisdiction in carrying out and administering the provisions of this act.

SEC. 7. Payment.-Whenever the tribunal, mentioned in section 6, shall determine that an allowance under this act shall be made, it shall make an order to that effect which order, among other things, shall set out in full the name of the mother, her place of residence, the names and ages of each of the children, and the amount allowed to each child, and upon presentation of such order, the county court shall direct monthly warrants to be drawn therefor.

SEC. 8. Court may compel attendance of witnesses.—For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, the tribunal, mentioned in section 6, shall have power to summon witnesses and compel their attendance and pay them the same as witnesses in criminal cases are paid.

SEC. 9. When allowance shall cease.-Whenever any woman on whose account any allowance shall have been made under the provisions of this act, shall marry, such allowance shall cease. No allowance for any child shall continue after such child shall have reached the age of sixteen years.

SEC. 10. Residential requirement.-This act shall apply only to women who are residents of this State at the time this act is passed or who were residents of the State at the time of the occurrence of the events which entitle them to the benefits of this act as provided by section 1.

Filed in the office of the secretary of state February 10, 1913.

PENNSYLVANIA.

[Laws 1913, No. 80.]

An Act Applicable to all counties of this Commonwealth, to provide monthly payments, as approved by the trustecs, to indigent, widowed, or abandoned mothers, for partial support of their children in their own homes. The manner of appointment of the trustees; the administration of the trust; amount of appropriations, proportioning appropriations, coördinate appropriations; amounts to be paid, form of records, eligibility, penalties, and reports, as set forth.

SECTION 1. Trustees.-Be it enacted etc., That on and after the passage of this bill, and its approval by the governor of the Commonwealth, the chief executive shall appoint not less than five and not more than seven women, residents of each county desiring to avail itself of the provisions of this act,1

1 Out of the 67 counties in the State only 5 counties-Philadelphia, Allegheny, Luzerne, Schuylkill and Beaver-had made application to the governor for the appointment of trustees up to January 19, 1914. These comprise about 42 per cent of the total population of the State.

to act as trustees, in whom shall be intrusted the carrying into effect the provisions of this act, to provide monthly payment, as approved by the trustees, to indigent, widowed, or abandoned mothers, for partial support of their children in their own homes; such payment to be made direct to the recipient by the State treasurer, upon warrants drawn by the auditor general, and direct to the recipient by the county treasurer. Such payments to continue at the will of the trustees, but not beyond the time that the law will permit a child to secure employment.

SEC. 2. Administration.-The administration of this act shall lie solely in the hands of the trustees appointed annually by the governor. They shall serve without pay; but shall be permitted to charge for traveling expenses, in making investigations of cases before a final recommendation is made to the auditor general and county treasurer. The trustees shall provide a headquarters and appoint an investigator, and a stenographer (if necessary) also suitable furnishings, stationery, and postage; but at no time shall the yearly expense be more than three thousand dollars for counties with cities of the first class, twenty-four hundred dollars for counties with cities of the second class, eighteen hundred dollars for counties with cities of the third class, and twelve hundred dollars for counties other than the aforesaid classes, with the exception of the first year, when the trustees shall be permitted to expend an additional sum of not more than five hundred dollars, if necessary, for furnishings. In order to carry the provisions of this act into effect an appropriation of two hundred thousand dollars, from moneys not otherwise appropriated, is hereby made; proportioned to the counties of the Commonwealth, according to their respective population in the census of one thousand nine hundred and ten, by the auditor general and State treasurer; upon the passage and approval of this bill, the State treasurer shall place the proportionate amount of the entire appropriation to the various counties, upon the books of the State treasury, to the credit of the trustees; one-half of which amount shall be available the first year after approval, and the remainder the second year, or until another appropriation may become available: Provided, however, That no county, through their trustees or otherwise, shall receive their allotment of the State's appropriation unless an equal amount has been provided by the government of such county desiring the benefits under this act. SEC. 3. Conditions and amount of aid.-The trustees shall in no case recommend payment to any widow or abandoned mother until they are thoroughly satisfied that the recipient is worthy in every way, and that, in order to keep her children in her own home, a monthly payment is necessary; but then only upon satisfactory reports from a teacher in the district school, stating that the child or children of the recipient of this fund are attending school, provided they are of proper age and physically able to do so. The combined total maximum payment shall not exceed twelve dollars per month for one child, twenty dollars per month for two children, twenty-six dollars per month for three children, and five dollars per month for each additional child. These payments to continue at the will of the trustees, but not beyond the time that the law will permit a child to secure employment.

SEC. 4. Records to be kept.-Four copies of a complete record of each family that is in receipt of any payment under the provisions of this act-the number of children, their full names, ages, and places of residence-shall be provided: one copy to be on file in the office of the trustees, as a public record; one copy to be kept as a record in the juvenile court, and in counties where no such court exists, the records shall be kept on file in the orphans' court; and one copy to be forwarded with each application for a warrant to the auditor gen

eral, and one copy to the county treasurer. The copy to the auditor general and the county treasurer shall be sworn to by the investigator, and approved by at least a majority of the trustees.

SEC. 5. Residential requirement.-No family shall be a beneficiary under this act unless the mother has been a continuous resident of the county, in which she is applying for the benefits under this act, for a period of three years.

SEC. 6. Penalty for fraud.-Any person securing an allowance not entitled thereto shall be declared guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, as the court may decide.

SEC. 7. Report.-A detailed report of the number of beneficiaries, the amount expended, the advantages and disadvantages of the system, improvements and recommendations, shall be made by the trustees to the members of the general assembly, at the beginning of the session of one thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

SEC. 8, Repeal.—All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Approved the 29th day of April, A. D. 1913.

SOUTH DAKOTA.

[Laws 1913, chap. 275.]

An Act Entitled, an act to provide for the partial support of women whose husbands are dead, permanently disabled, or prisoners when such women are poor and the mothers of children and empowering the county court to make such allowance, prescribing the conditions under which such allowance shall be made and the extent thereof, and authorizing, empowering and making it the duty of the county commissioners to provide a fund for the carrying out of the provisions of this act, and for the revocation of any order made for such allowance and an appeal for such order, and providing a penalty for attempting to obtain an allowance for a person not entitled to the same. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota: SECTION 1. Allowance to poor mothers.-For the partial support of women whose husbands are dead or become permanently disabled for work by reasons of physical or mental infirmity, or whose husbands are prisoners, when such women are poor and are the mothers of children under the age of fourteen years, and such mothers and children have a legal residence in any county of this State, the county court is hereby authorized and empowered to and shall make an allowance to each of such women, upon petition and notice as hereinafter set out, as follows: Not to exceed fifteen dollars a month, when such woman has but one child under the age of fourteen years, and if she has more than one child under the age of fourteen years, it shall not exceed fifteen dollars a month for the first child and seven dollars a month for each of the other children under the age of fourteen years. The order making such allowance shall not be effective for a longer period than six months, but upon the expiration of such period said court may from time to time extend such allowance for a period of six months or less, providing the court is satisfied that such order of extension is proper.

SEC. 2. Petition-Conditions of allowance.—Such allowance shall be made by the county court upon a verified petition made by such poor woman or by some member of the board of county commissioners of said county or by any other charitable organization or association within such county. Upon presentation

of such petition to the court the county court shall proceed to examine into the effects and shall make such allowance only upon the following conditions: 1. The child or children for whose benefit the allowance is to be 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 children, except that she may be absent not more than one day a week for work; or when it is deemed and found to be absolutely necessary for the proper care and education of said children;

3. The mother must in the judgment of the court be a proper person morally, physically and mentally, for the bringing up of her child;

4. Such allowance shall in the judgment of the court be necessary to save the child or children from neglect and to avoid the breaking up of the home of such women;

5. It must appear to be for the benefit of child to remain with such mother; 6. A careful preliminary examination of the home of such mother must first have been made by either the State's attorney or some officer of a charities organization or humane society or such other competent person as the court may direct and a written report of such examination filed with the court.

SEC. 3. 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 county court may in its discretion at any time before such child reaching the age of fourteen years discontinue or modify the allowance to any mother and for her child.

SEC. 4. Partial relief.—Should the fund hereinafter provided for and at the disposal of the court for this purpose be sufficient to permit an allowance to only a part of the persons coming within the provisions of this act, the county court may and shall select those cases in most urgent need of such allowance. SEC. 5. To whom law does not apply.-The provisions of this act shall not apply to any woman who while her husband is imprisoned receives sufficient of his wages to support the child or children.

SEC. 6. Penalty for fraud.-Any person or persons attempting to obtain 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 five nor more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 7. Motion to set aside allowance.-In each case where an allowance is made to any woman under the provsions of this act an entry to that effect shall be entered upon the records of the county court making such allowance and any citizen of the county may at any time file a motion to set aside or vacate or modify such judgment and on such motion and upon such notice as the county court shall deem proper the said court shall hear evidence and may make a new order sustaining the allowance, modify or vacate the same, and an appeal may be taken from such order to the circuit court or supreme court as in civil actions. If the judgment be not appealed from or if the appeal be not prosecuted and the judgment of the county court be sustained or affirmed the person filing such motion shall pay all the costs incident to the hearing on such motion. Such motion may be renewed from time to time but not oftener than once in any calendar year.

SEC. 8. County commissioners to levy tax.—It is hereby made the duty of the county commissioners to provide out of the moneys in the county treasury such sum each year as will meet the requirements of the court and will pay the allowances made by said court as herein provided. To provide for such

moneys the said county commissioners may levy a tax not to exceed one-tenth of a mill on the valuation of the taxable property of the county. The county treasurer shall pay such allowances upon orders made by the judge of the county court of such county.

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

Approved March 14, 1913.

UTAH.

[Laws 1913, chap. 90.]

An Act To provide for the partial support of mothers who are dependent upon their own efforts for the maintenance of their children, and giving county commissioners and juvenile court jurisdiction in such matters.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah: SECTION 1. County commissioners to provide funds.-It shall be the duty of the county commissioners of each county in this State, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to provide funds in an amount sufficient to meet the purposes of this law, but not exceeding in any one year the sum of ten thousand dollars, such funds to be expended for the partial support of mothers who are dependent upon their own efforts for the maintenance of their children.

SEC. 2. Amount of allowance.-The allowance to each of such mothers shall not exceed ten dollars a month when she has but one child under the age of fifteen years and if she has more than one child under the age of fifteen years, it shall not exceed the sum of ten dollars a month for the first child and five dollars a month for each of the other children under the age of fifteen years. SEC. 3. Conditions of allowance.-Such allowance shall be made by the county commissioners, except in counties having a population of one hundred and twenty-five thousand or more, the authority, power and duty of determining upon allowance to be made under the provisions of this act shall devolve upon and be exercised by the juvenile judge of the district in and for such counties. Such allowance shall be made 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 a 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 judgement [judgment] of the county commissioners or juvenile court, be a proper person morally, physically and mentally for the bringing up of her children. [ ;]

(4) Such allowance shall, in the judgement [judgment] of the county commissioners or juvenile court be necessary to save the child or children from neglect ;

(5) No persons [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 fifteen years, any allowance made the mother of such child for the benefit of such child shall cease. The county commissioners or juvenile court may, in their discretion, at any time before such child reaches the age of fifteen 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

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