Pennsylvania Act 1903-77 — CHILDREN, EXPENSES OF MAINTENANCE AND INSTRUCTION

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CHILDREN, EXPENSES OF MAINTENANCE AND INSTRUCTION
                  Act of Mar. 27, 1903, P.L. 83, No. 77               Cl. 23
                                  AN ACT

     To provide for the payment of the expenses of the maintenance
        and instruction of children, committed to Houses of Refuge
        which are not exclusively under State control, jointly by the
        State and by the counties from which they may be sent; and
        providing a method for determining the amount due, and
        collecting the same from said counties.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That whenever a child shall
     be or heretofore shall have been committed to any House of
     Refuge which is not exclusively under State control, and shall
     become or shall have become an inmate thereof, one-half of the
     expense of maintaining and instructing such child hereafter
     shall be borne by the county from which such child shall have
     been received, and the remaining one-half shall be paid out of
     the appropriations made to such House of Refuge, from time to
     time, by the State. After the first day of June, one thousand
     nine hundred and twenty-five, the method of collecting the
     amount due by the several counties from which children have been
     sent, shall be by orders drawn by the treasurer of any such
     House of Refuge on the treasurers of said counties, who shall
     accept and pay the same: Provided, That the said orders shall be
     presented quarterly, on the first days of April, July, October,
     and January, in each and every year, or as soon thereafter as
     may be convenient: And provided also, That the treasurer of such
     House of Refuge, on or before the second Monday of the preceding
     month, shall transmit, by the public mail, to the commissioners
     of such of the counties as may have become indebted for the
     maintenance and instruction of inmates in such House of Refuge,
     an account of the expense of maintaining and instructing them
     during the three previous calendar months, which account shall
     be signed by the treasurer, and sworn or affirmed to by him, and
     attested by the superintendent of the department of such House
     of Refuge in which each of such inmates may be living. It shall
     be the duty of the said commissioners, immediately upon the
     receipt of said accounts, to give notice to the treasurers of
     their respective counties of the amount of said accounts, with
     instructions to collect and retain money for the payment of said
     orders when presented. For the purpose of fixing the amount to
     be charged for the maintenance and instruction of each inmate,
     the per capita cost of maintaining and conducting such House of
     Refuge for the three months' period covered by the order shall
     be taken as the rate to be charged, and one-half of such per
     capita cost, so calculated, shall be charged to the respective
     counties for each child from such counties.
        (1 amended Apr. 7, 1925, P.L.156, No.115)