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PROVISION
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CHILD WELFARE (Sec. 521)
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| Conditions for approval of State plan. |
The conditions are those involved in the purposes
of the section: To enable the United States to cooperate with
the States in establishing, extending, and strengthening,
in predominantly rural areas, child-welfare services for the
protection and care of homeless, dependent, and neglected
children, and children in danger of becoming delinquent. The
amounts shall be allotted on the basis of plans developed
jointly by the Children's Bureau and State public-welfare
agencies and be expended for payment of part of the cost of
local services in areas predominantly rural, and for developing
State services for the' encouragement and assistance of adequate
methods of community child-welfare organization in areas predominantly
rural and other areas of special need.
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| Amount of Federal grant to State. |
$10,000 allotted to each of the States and
$990,000 distributed to the States not to exceed proportion
of State to United States rural population.
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| Extent of State financial participation. |
Not specifically provided in act.
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| Federal definition of aid. |
See above under "Conditions for approval
of State plan."
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| Method of making allotments. |
Not specifically provided in act.
Payments made to the State (at time or times fixed by the
designated Federal agency) by the Secretary of the Treasury
(through Disbursement Division) prior to audit or settlement
by the General Accounting Office.
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| Suspension of Federal grant. |
Not specifically provided in act.
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| FEDERAL AGENCY |
CHILDREN'S BUREAU
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| Federal appropriation authorized--Fiscal year
1936. |
$1,500,000
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