Chap. 102.-An ACT to amend and re-enact section 14 of an act entitled an
act to provide, in certain cases, for the payment out of county and city
treasuries of allowances for the support of children in their own homes and for
the partial reimbursement by the State of the counties and cities making such
payments; also to repeal an act entitled an act providing that any county or
city of this State may pay a monthly allowance to indigent, widowed mothers
for the partial support of their children in their own homes, approved Febru-
ary 28, 1918, approved March 27, 1922. [S B 193]

Approved March 10, 1934

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
fourteen of an act entitled an act to provide, in certain cases, for the
payment out of county and city treasuries of allowances for the sup-
port of children in their own homes and for the partial reimbursement
by the State of the counties and cities making such payments; also
to repeal an act entitled an act providing that any county or city of this
State may pay a monthly allowance to indigent, widowed mothers for
the partial support of their children in their own homes, approved
February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, approved
March twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 14. During the months of January, April, July and October
of each year the treasurer of each county and the treasurer or other
proper disbursing officer of each city, shall certify under oath to the
Comptroller and to the State Board of Public Welfare the amount paid
out for allowances under this act by the county or city during the
three months immediately preceding the month in which such certifi-
cate is made; and if the said board shall approve the same in whole
or in part, it shall cause the extent of its approval to be endorsed by
its chairman on the certificate received by the Comptroller ; whereupon
the said Comptroller shall draw his warrant in favor of the treasurer
of the county or the treasurer or other proper receiving officer of the
city, for one-half of the amount so approved and certified to have been
paid out by the county or city. The State Treasurer, provided there
are funds appropriated for that purpose, shall pay the same, and such
local officer shall place the sum to the credit of the special fund of the
county or city appropriated by the governing body thereof for the
specific purposes of this act, or to the credit of such other fund as
the governing body of the county or city may direct.