STATE AID AND CHARITIES. 2759

Twelve Dollars ($12) per month for the oldest child, Ten Dollars ($10)
per month for the next oldest child, and Six Dollars ($6) per month for
each additional child, not at any time, however, exceeding forty dollars
($40) per month for any one family. And the Board of Estimates and
the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and the County Commissioners
of the respective Counties of this State are authorized and directed to
levy such tax, not exceeding one-tenth of a mill, as may be necessary and
sufficient to carry out the provisions of this sub-title, or to provide for the
same out of the proceeds of the general tax levy.

An. Code, sec. 24. 1916, ch. 670, sec. 6.

26. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners in the several
Counties wherein applicant or petitioner resides, or the Board for Mothers'
Relief for Baltimore City, wherein applicant or petitioner resides, to see
that any widow mother thus committed to their care, pursuant to the
provisions of this sub-title, is properly caring for her children; that they
are sufficiently clothed and fed; that they attend school regularly and that
said family shall be visited at least once every two months.

The County Commissioners, in the County in which applicant or peti-
tioner resides or the Board for Mothers' Relief for Baltimore City shall
report to the Juvenile Court, or, if none exists, to the Circuit Court in
such County or to the Juvenile Court for Baltimore City, in the case of
any widow mother who does not properly care for and educate her child or
children, or when they find that she no longer needs such support. The
Circuit Court or the Juvenile Court shall thereupon revoke any order made
pursuant to this sub-title, at any time, with or without notice, and in lieu
thereof make any order that in the judgment of the Court may protect the
welfare of the child or children.

An. Code, sec. 25. 1916, ch. 670, sec. 7.

27. Should the fund or funds available be insufficient to permit of an
allowance to only a part of the mothers coming within the provisions of
this sub-title, the County Commissioners in the several Counties or the
Board for Mothers' Relief for Baltimore City, shall select in their discre-
tion those in most urgent need of such allowance, and submit such selections,
after full investigation, to the Circuit or Juvenile Court of such Counties
or to the Juvenile Court for Baltimore City for approval, which shall
accept the same or make a different selection on its own account, which
shall then be conclusive.

An. Code, sec. 26. 1916, ch. 670, sec. 8.

28. The Board for Mothers' Relief for Baltimore City shall have the
power to employ assistant investigators, not at any time to exceed three,
at a salary of nine hundred dollars ($900) per year for each investigator,
at such time that the Board finds itself physically unable to conduct investi-
gations, by reason of the burden of work, whose duties shall be to thoroughly
investigate all applications or petitions and to make stated visits to the
homes of the applicants or petitioners and for such other work as the Board