HARRY W. NICE, GOVERNOR. 41

1936, to provide for inclusion of an illegitimate child within
the term "child".

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Section 21 of Article 88A of the Annotated Code
of Maryland (1935 Supplement), title "State Aid and
Charities", sub-title "Aid to Dependent Children", as said
section was amended by Chapter 148 of the Acts of the Ex-
traordinary Session of 1936, be and it is hereby repealed and
re-enacted with amendments to read as follows:

21. Definitions. As used in this sub-title: "State Depart-
ment" means the "Board of State Aid and Charities".

The term "Local Units" means the "County Welfare Boards"
created under Sections SD and 8E of this Article, and the
Department of Welfare of Baltimore City.

"Dependent Child" means a needy child under the age of
sixteen years (a) who lias been deprived of parental support
or care by reason of the death, continued absence from the
home, or physical or mental incapacity of a parent, and (b)
whose relatives liable under the law for his support are not
able to provide adequate care and support of such child, with-
out public assistance, and (e) who is living with his father,
mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather,
stepmother, stepbrother, or stepsister, uncle, or aunt, in a place
of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives as
his or their own home. "Child" shall include an illegitimate
child: for the purpose of clause (a), such illegitimate child
shall be considered the child of both parents although paternity
has not been established by legal proceedings or otherwise,
or is in fact unknown; for the purposes of clause (e), such
child shall be treated as if it were legitimate in determining
relationships through its mother, and also through its father,
when the paternity of such child is established to the satis-
faction of the local unit by such proof as it deems adequate.

"Assistance" means money payments with respect to a de-
pendent child or children.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act is hereby
declared to be an emergency law and necessary for the im-
mediate preservation of the public health and safety, having
been passed upon a yea and nay vote, supported by three-fifths
of all the members of the General Assembly elected to each of
the two Houses and the same shall take effect from the date of
its passage.

Approved March 22, 1937.