Show PENSION LAW FOR MOTHERS following Is the act in till full passed by the last legislature providing assistance si for dependent mothers section Sect iori 1 county commissioners Commissioner 3 to provide funds limit it shall be agthe duty ol of the county commissioners ot of each county in this state and they are hereby authorized and empowered to provide funds in an amount sufficient to meet the purposes ot of this law but not exceeding in any one year the sum of 0 10 such funds to be expended for the partial support of mothers who are dependent upon their own efforts for the maintenance of their children see sec 2 maximum allowance the allowance to each of such mothers shall not cac exceed eed ten dollars a month when she his has but one child under the th ege ot of fifteen years and it if she has more than one child under tinder the age of fifteen years it shall not exceed the sum of ten dollars a month for the first child and live five dollars a month for each of theother the other children under tinder the age of fifteen years see sec 3 who to fix allowance con editions dit jons ions such allowance shall be made by the county commissioners except in counties having a population of or more the authority power and duty of determining upon allowance to be ma made de under the provisions of this net act shall devolve upon and be exercised by the juvenile judge of tho the district in and for such counties such allowance shall be made only upon the following conditions 1 the child or children for whose I 1 benefit ance Is made must be living mother or t abc such child or children 2 the allowance shall be made only when in the a absence of 0 such allowa ace the mother would be required I 1 to work te regularly away from home boule and her children and when by meano of such allowance she will be able to remain aftin at home with her children 13 the mother must in the judgment judgment of the county commissioners ners or juvenile court be a proper person morally physically and mentally tor for the bringing up tip of her children 4 such allowance shall in the judgment of oc the county commissioners or Ji venile court be necessary to save tile 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 couil coun ty in which such application Is made for at least two years next before the making of such application of such oS lowance see sec 4 I 1 when allowance to cease whenever any child shall reach the age of fifteen ars any allowance may to the tha mother of such child tor for the benefit of 0 such child shall cease the county commissioners or juvenile nile court may ay 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 6 distribution of funds fund when insufficient should the fund herein authorized be sufficient to permit an allowance to only part of the persons coming within the provisions of this law the county commissioners or juvenile court shall select those cases in most urgent need of such allowance sec se 6 construction the provisions of this law shall not apply to any mother who is not dependent upon her own efforts for the maintenance of her children sec 7 misrepresentation penalty any person procuring or attempting to procure an allowance for a person not entitled thereto shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and continued from page six sir SUPPORT OF DENT MOTHERS continued from first race page upon conviction thereof shall be punished as now provided by law for punishment in case of misdemeanors see sec S record allowance may be set aside when how in each case where an allowance is made to any mother under the provisions of this act an entry to that effect shall be entered upon the records of the county commissioners or the juvenile court making such allowance and ie c shall be the right of any taxpaying citizen at any tinie time to file a motion to set aside such allowance and on oil such motion the county commission ers or juvenile court shall hear evidence and may make inake it a new order granting or refusing such allowance sec 9 appeal in each case where an allowance is made or refused to any mother under tinder the provisions of this act by the county co commissioners Commissio neis or juvenile court an appeal may be taken front from such decision by any taxpaying citizen or by the file applicant for an allowance such appeal shall be sub su 0 o icat act to the same provisions of law as in case of appeal from justices courts approved march 1913 |