Summary of State Laws Relating to the Dependent Classes, 1913, Volume 3 |
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Administrative and supervisory admission admitted almshouse annual approval association asylum authorized blind persons Board of Charities board of control board of county board of trustees charitable institutions Charities and Cor charities and corrections chil child Classes receiving special commission committed CONDITIONS OF RELIEF contract county board county commissioners county court custody Deaf deaf and dumb dependent or neglected discretion district dren epileptic ex officio expense family home farm Feeble-minded governor guardianship indigent persons Industrial School inebriates infirmary inmates insane persons inspection instructed investigation juvenile court legal settlement licensed maintenance METHODS OF RELIEF North Dakota orphan outdoor relief overseers parents or guardians patients paupers physician poor person Poor relief poorhouse private institutions probate court probation officer rections residence sailors Sanatorium Session Laws side-note references society Soldiers Statutes suitable superintendent supervision supervisory agencies tion town township treatment tuberculosis unable West Virginia
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Page 206 - ... pay to employees suitable wages, and may devise means for the sale and distribution of the products of such schools and workshops.
Page 128 - For the purpose of this act the words "dependent child" and "neglected child" shall mean any child who for any reason is destitute or homeless or abandoned; or dependent upon the public for support; or has not proper parental care or guardianship; or who Habitually begs or receives alms; or who is found living in any house of...
Page 59 - ... provide such sum or sums of money as may be necessary to be drawn upon by the commander and quartermaster of any post of the Grand Army of the Republic, or of any camp of the United Spanish War Veterans of the city or town, made upon the written recommendation of the relief committee of such post...
Page 265 - Education, consisting of the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House of Delegates, and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, which Board shall perform such duties as the General Assembly may direct.
Page 147 - ... whose home, by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity on the part of its parents, guardian or other person in whose care it may be, is an unfit place for such...
Page 52 - Administration may visit and Inspect any charitable society, Institution or association which appeals to the public for aid, or Is supported by trust funds; and shall report to the governor upon Its efficiency, economy and usefulness.
Page 59 - ... other authorized public body; all exempt firemen of any taxing district; all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who have served in the army or navy of the United States during any war or rebellion and their widows during widowhood; and all members of the national guard during their term of service...
Page 72 - A married woman shall follow, and have the settlement of her husband, if he has any within the state...
Page 205 - The intent and purpose of this act are to provide humane and scientific treatment and care and the highest attainable degree of individual development for the dependent wards of the state ; "To provide for the delinquent such wise conditions of modern education and training as will restore the largest possible portion of them to useful citizenship; ' ' To promote the study of the causes of dependency and delinquency, and of mental, moral and physical defects, with a view to cure and ultimate prevention...
Page 54 - It shall be the duty of the superintendent of public instruction to visit such of the charitable institutions of the state as are educational in their character, and to examine their facilities...