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WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION
HARRY L. HOPKINS, ADMINISTRATOR
CORRINGTON GILL HOWARD B. MYERS, DIRECTOR
ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR DIVISION OF SOCIAL RESEARCH
DIGEST OF PUBLIC WELFARE PROVISIONS
UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF
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 Preface
This bulletin is one of a series intended to present in
abstract form the public welfare provisions of the laws of each of
the States.
The purpose of these bulletins is to give a brief review
of the provisions for public assistance under the laws of the several
jurisdictions, and of the administrative agencies set up by law with
g3eference thereto. A chart showing the organizational relationships
\6’
“:of the administrative agencies is included.
L
‘3 The possibility of error in attempting with a limited staff
TQand in a limited time to assemble and digest the formidable mass of
Fmaterial incident to such a study is frankly recognized. The coopera—
,Btion of those who have occasion to use these digests in reporting any
géerrors of omission or commission noted, or in suggesting improvement
ijin form or content, is invited and will be greatly appreciated.
5 Meanwhile it is hoped that those interested in considering
(E , , . . . .
:the reorganization or strengthening of public welfare serv1ces 1n the
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ijseveral States may find the digests of practical value.
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 ‘ INDEX TO
DIGEST OF WELFARE LAWS OF STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Public Welfare Provisions Page
GeneralReliefoooooo-oo-ooooooooooooooooooo 2701
Aid to Dependent Children in Their Own Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2705
Care of Dependent and Neglected Children (Institutions and Agencies) . . 2707
OldAgeABBistance..............o............ 2709
BlindAflsiBtan08oooooosaccesses-cocooooooooo 2711
VeteranRelief.....-....................... 2714
Administrative Provisions
State Board Of Welfare and Relief I o o o o to o o o to I I o. o o 0 2717
Board of Trustees of State Hospital for the Insane . . . . . . . . . . . 2725
Board of Trustees of Laconia State School for the Feeble-minded . . . . 2728
Board of Trustees of State Industrial School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2752
Board of Trustees of State Sanatorium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2759
Board of Managers of State Soldiers' Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2742
Board of Trustees of State Prison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2745
. StateBoardofParole.........................2751
Juvenile Court (Session of Municipal and Justice Court) . . . . . . . . 2755
Board of County Commissioners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2757
Town Overseers of the Poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2759
Chart Showing Public Welfare Agencies

 New Hampshire 2701

. DIGEST OF PUBLIC WELFARE PROVISIONS
GENERAL RELIEF _i/ '

(a) Description of class

Poor Relief and Emergency Relief:

Town: Any person who is poor and unable to support him-
self 2/ and who has no relative of sufficient ability liable for his
support. g/

County: Any person for whose support no person, or town in
the State is chargeable. 3/

(b) Procedure for determining eligibility

No provision.

(0) Measure of responsibility

Poor Relief:

Town: Care in town poor farm g]; binding out to labor for not
exceeding one year; employment in workhouse 6/; burial 2/. '

. County: Care in county poor farm §/; care in town poor house
when contract with such town has been made 2/; binding out or employment
in the same manner as town poor are bound out or employed 29/; burial 11/.

Emergency Relief:

Work relief and/or direct relief. 12/

1. Emergency provisions terminate June 30, 1987, unless the Legislature
alters or amends the Act prior to that date. Laws (1955), Ch. 20, Sec.
24. Towns and cities must vote not to accept emergency provisions if
they desire not to be subject to their operation. If emergency provisions
are rejected, there is no State reimbursement or supervision.
2. Public Laws (1926), Ch. 106, Sec. 1.
3. Ibid, Sec. 22.
4. Ibid, Ch. 107, Sec. 1.
6. Ibid, Ch. 106, Sec. 2.
6. Ibid, Sec. 4.

Wages of anyone so bound out are used for the maintenance of such
person, his family, or his children. Ibid.
7. Public laws (1926), Ch. 106, Sec. 8.
8. Ibid, Ch. 107, Sec. 2.
9. Ibid, Sec. 6.
10. Ibid, Sec. 7.
11. Ibid, Sec. 3.

County Commissioners may reimburse town for county poor buried at
town's expense. Ibid.

. 12. Laws (1955), Ch. 20, Sec. 8 (l).

 2702 New Hampshire w Digest of Public Welfare Provisions
GWRAL RELIEF (Cont‘d) .
(d) Qualifications imposed 13/

Poor Relief and Emergency Relief: ’

Town: -Lega1 settlement, gained by 5 years' consecutive
residence in the town. 14/

County; A pauper who has not resided in a county 5 months
at tine of first relief may be removed by the Board of County Commissioners
or by a superior court to the county which relieved him within a year, or
to the county in wnich he has resided one year within the last 5 years. 15/

(e) Incidence of financial responsibility

Poor Relief:

Town: 16/ (Obligation mandatory.)

County: 17/ (Obligation mandatory.)
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15. A person is not entitled to vote if he has received assistance from
any town or county within 90 days of town meeting and is unable to repay to
the town or court the full amount of such assistance received during such
time. Public Laws (1926), Ch. 25, Sec. 2, 5. Note, however, following
provision regarding temporary or unemployment relief: While Federal funds .
are available the receipt of unemployment relief, or of other temporary aid
granted under the provisions of this Act, does not make the recipient there-
of, or any member of his fandly, a pauper within the terms of the election
lawa of the State, nor affect his or their civil or political status in
any way. Iaws (1955), Ch. 20, Sec. 17.

14. Laws (19:53), Ch. 142, Sec. 1.
' A former settlement is lost upon abandonment for 5 consecutive years
of the domicile by which settlement was gained. Ibid, Sec. 2. Any settle-
, ment obtained under these provisions is lost by a person who has been
assisted as a pauper for 5 consecutive years. Ibid, Sec. 5.

The father, mother, son or daughter or person in relationship of
parent to a minor stepchild, must assist or maintain such person when in
need. Such relation is deemed able to assist a poor person if his weekly
income is more than is reasonably required for his own support or that of
his oyn family. Public Laws (1926), Ch.'106, Sec. 22; Laws (1955), Ch.

65. Sec. 10
15. Laws (1955), Ch. 157, Sec. 5.

The county to which the pauper is removed must pay the expenses of
his transportation. Ibid.

16. Public Laws (1926), Ch. 106, Sec. 1.
17. Ibid, Sec. 1, 22.

 New Hampshire - Digest of Public Welfare Provisions 2703
. GENERAL RELIEF (Cont'd)
(e) Incidence of financial responsibility (Cont'd)
_ Emergency Relief:
State: Fifty percent. (Obligation mandatory.) 1§/
(State Emergency Relief Fund.) 12/
Towns and Counties: Fifty percent. (Obligation mandatory.) 18/
(f) Taxes
Town: No specific provision. (Town general funds.)
County: No specific provision. (County general funds.) 20/
State: No specific provision. (State Emergency Relief Funds.) 21/
18. Laws (1935), Ch. 20, Sec. 9.
19. Ibid, Sec. 9, 15, 16.

The State reimburses towns and counties 50 percent of the amount ex—
pended for this relief. If during any period while this Act is in effect,
Federal funds are made available to the State for direct poor relief, all
such available Federal moneys must be used to reimburse counties, cities
and towns for their expenditures for poor relief, in accordance with any

. . regulations or conditions imposed by the Federal authorities, in which
event the balance of the expenditures by counties, cities and towns for
poor relief must be borne equally by the State and by the counties,cities
and towns. Ibid.

Towns and cities may vote by ballot to assume all liability for the
relief of their poor, and in such cases are not entitled to grants or
reimbursements from State or Federal money for poor relief, and are not
subject to any of the provisions of this Act. Ibid, Sec. 10.

20. Laws (1935), Ch. 20, Sec. 19.

. The selectmen of towns and mayors of cities are authorized and upon
instructions from the Tax Commission, must direct the fixing of tax rates
and the assessment of taxes, so that only such amounts shall be raised
for the relief of the poor of the town or city as will represent, as
nearly as may be estimated, the actual amount to be contributed by the
town or city for that purpose, taking into consideration the assistance
which may be given the city or town by the State or Federal agencies.

The county conventions must take into account in making their appropria-
tions for poor relief the amounts which the State and other agencies
shall pay. Ibid.

21. Laws (1935), Ch. 20, Sec. 9, 15, 16.

 2704 New mpsmre a Digest of Public Welfare Provisions
GENERAL RELIEF (Cont'd)
(g) Administrative agencies V .
Poor Relief and Emergency Relief!
1'92: Overseers of the Poor. §_2/
County: Board of County Commissioners. _2_1_3_/
(h) Supervisopy controls
Ennrfincy Relief:
Director of the Division of Relief of the State Board of
Welfare and Relief. 3y
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22. Public Laws (1926), Ch. 106, Sec. 1. .
23. Ibid, Ch. 107, Sec. 2. »
24. LaWs (1935), Ch. 20, See. 8 (1).

 New Hampshire — Digest of Public Welfare Provisions 2705
. AID T0 DEPENDEVT CHILDREN IN THEIR OWN HOMES
(a) Description of class
Dependent mothers and motherless children under 16 years
of age. 1/
(b) Procedure for determining eligibility
Applicant must file a petition under oath with the Secretary
of the State Board of Welfare and Relief asking for an allowance, and
setting forth in detail the facts on which she relies. 2/ The secretary
must investigate the facts stated in the application and make written
recommendation of the amount of support applicant should receive. If
the State Board finds that applicant is entitled to relief it makes such '
allowance as in its opinion is just. 5/
(0) Measure of responsibility
Maximum allowance of $18 per month for mother and first child,
and $12 per month for each other child. 4/ Maximum allowance to parent of
motherless child, for home care of child, $8 per month for each child. 5/
(d) Qualifications imposed
No aid may be given a mother unless: The child or children
are living with her; such mother, in the judgment of the State Board, is
a proper person morally, physically, and mentally to bring up her chil-
. dren; the mother has been a resident of the State for at least one year
before she applies for aid; employment, if any, in which the mother en—
gages is approved by the State Board. §/
The parent of a motherless child may be given aid provided:
The mother is deceased, or has abandoned the home, or is mentally or
physically incapacitated and under treatment in an institution; the
child is living with the parent; the parent by means of such aid is
enabled to maintain his home by employing a suitable caretaker, and
such employment would be impossible without such aid; such caretaker,
in the judgment of the State Board, is a proper person morally, physi-
cally, and mentally to bring up the child; such caretaker engages in no
___________.________._____________________________________.______________
l. Lowe (1955), Ch. 122, Sec. 1; Laws (1929), Ch. 145, Sec. 2.
2. Laws (1929), Ch. 145, Sec. 1.
5. Laws (1951), Ch. 106, Sec. 2.
4. Laws (1955), Ch. 122, Sec. 2.
5. Laws (1951), Ch. 106, Sec. 5.
6. Laws (1955), Ch. 122, Sec. 5.

‘ Nothing herein contained may be construed as depriving a mother of
such assistance if one or more of her children are living with her and
others are living elsewhere, and the State Board must base its allow-
ance upon the special emergencies existing. Ibid.

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All) TO DEPENDENT CHIIDREN IN THEIR OWN HOMES (Cont'd) .
(d) Qualifications imposed (Cont'd)
employment not approved by the State Board; the parent has been a resi-
dent of this State for at least 2 years before he applies for aid; the
parent is engaged in a lawful and gainful occupation where same is
available and approved by the State Board, and contributes regularly -
from his wages toward the maintenance of his home an amount satisfactory
to the State Board. 2/
(e) Incidence of financial responsibility
State. §/ (Obligation mandatory.)
(f) Taxes
No specific provision. (State general fund.)
(g) Administrative agencies
State Board of Welfare and Relief. 3/ '
(h) Supervisory controls
No provision.
7. Laws (1951), Ch. 106, Sec. 5 (a-g).
8. Laws (1955), Ch. 122, Sec. 1.
9. Ibid, Sec. 4.

 New Hampshire — Digest of Public Welfare Provisions 2707
. CARE OF DEPENDENT AND NEGIECTED CHILDREN (INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES)
(a) Description of class

"Dependent child" is any child who for any reason is destitute,
homeless or abandoned and dependent upon the public for support, or has not
proper parental care or guardianship, or who habitually begs or receives
alms, or who is found living in any house of ill-fame or with any vicious
or disreputable persons, or whose home by reason of neglect, cruelty or
depravity on the part of its parents, guardians or other person in whose
care it may be is an unfit place for such child. 1/

(b) Procedure for determining eligibility

Any reputable person, having knowledge of a child who appears .
to be either dependent or delinquent, may file with the clerk of the court
a petition setting forth the facts. 2/ On return of summons, notice or
other process the court must hear and dispose of the case. g/

(c) Measure of responsibility

Conmdtment by juvenile court to State Board of Welfare and
Relief, or to some society or association embracing in its objects the
purpose of caring for or obtaining homes for dependent or neglected chil-
dren, and which has been approved by the State Board. 3/

Overseers of Poor liable for support of minors in cities or

. towns, and County Commissioners so liable in counties must procure
minors' support at some orphan asylum or home, or with some private family
of good repute. é/ Permanent homes must be found by the Overseers or
Commissioners for all orphan children as soon as is practicable. Educa-
tion and support during minority. 6/

Except as otherwise provided, Overseers must set to work, in
the workhouse or elsewhere, or bind out as apprentices, all children re-
siding in their respective towns, who are not employed in some lawful
business, whose parents are unable or neglect to maintain them, males
until the age of 21 years and females until the age of 18 years. 1/

State Board of Welfare and Relief may cause such child to be
placed in a hospital or institution for special treatment and care 8], or
may procure suitable family homes for minor children committed to it by
juvenile courts or for whom Overseer of Poor or County Commissioners do
not find homes within 60 days. 2/
_______.____._..____.______.___.__._.____.__________.______.________________
1. Public Laws (1926), Ch. 110, Sec. 2.

2. Ibid, Sec. 4.

3. Ibid, Sec. 8.

4. Ibid, Sec. 10.

5. Ibid, Ch. 109, Sec. 2.

6. Ibid, Sec. 3.

7. Ibid, Ch. 106, Sec. 5.

8. Ibid, Ch. 109,.Sec. 9.
. 9. Ibid, Sec. 8.

 2708 New Hampshire - Digest of Public Welfare Provisions
CARE OF DEPENDENT AND NFGIECTED CHILDREN (DISTITUTIONS AND AGENCIESHCont'd) .
(d) Qualifications imposed
No provision.
(e) Incidence of financial responsibility
County, city, or town legally chargeable. 10/ (Obligation
mandatory.)
(f) Taxes
No provision.
(g) Administrative agencies
Juvenile court (session of municipal and justice court). 11/
See "Measure of responsibility".
(h) Supervisory controls
The State Board of Welfare and Relief has general supervi-
sion of all neglected, delinquent or defective children in the State,
and must see that such children receive suitable education, training
and support. State Board inspects all State or county charitable
institutions. 3/ I
10. Public Laws (1926), Ch. 109, Sec. 10; Ch. 110, Sec. 11.
County, city, or town bearing financial responsibility has right
of action over such expense against parents or guardian of such child. .
Ibid.
11. Public Laws (1926), Ch. 110, Sec. 3.
12. Ibid, Ch. 108, Sec. 7, 8.

 New Hampshire - Digest of Public Welfare Provisions \ 2709
. OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
(a) Description of class
Any person,of the age of 70 years who is unable to support
himself and has no children or other persons of sufficient ability to
pay and responsible for his support under State Law. l/
(b) Procedure for determining eligibility
Any person requesting aid must make application therefor to
the Board of County Commissioners of the county in which he resides or
has a legal settlement. g/ Upon receiving an application, the County Com-
missioners must promptly make an investigation and record of the circumr
stances of the applicant. g/ Upon completion of this investigation the
County Commissioners decide whether applicant is eligible for and should
receive old age assistance, the amount thereof and when it is to begin.
If an application is denied or the grant is deemed inadequate by the
applicant, he may appeal to the State Board of Welfare and Relief. Such
Board must upon receipt of such an appeal review the case, and may also,
upon its own motion, review any decision made by the County Commissioners.
The State Board may make such additional investigation as it may deem
necessary and must make Such decision as to the granting of assistance and
the amount and nature of assistance to be granted the applicant, as in its
opinion is justified‘and in conformity with this Act. All decisions of
the State Board shall be binding upon the counties, cities and towns in—
volved and must be complied with by the County Commissioners. All assis—
. tance grants must be reconsidered from time to time, or as frequently as
' may be required by the rules of the State Board of Welfare and Relief. 3/
(c) Measure of responsibility
' The anount of assistance is determined by the County Commis—
sioners with.due regard to the conditions existing in each case, but in
no event may it exceed, when added to the income of applicant from other
sources, $50 per month. é/
Funeral expenses, not to exceed $125. é/
(d) Qualifications imposed
Applicant must be a citizen of the United States; must have
been a resident of the State at least 5 of the 9 years, and continuously
for one year, immediately preceding his application; application must be
made in the county in which applicant has a legal settlement in some town
or city thereof, or in case he has no such legal settlement, in the county
in which he is residing; applicant must not be at the time of receiving
1. Laws (l935), Ch. 127, Sec. 2.
2. Ibid, Sec. 4.
5. Ibid, Sec. 9.
4. Ibid, Sec. 10, 16.
. 5. Ibid, Sec. 5.
6. Ibid, Sec. 15.

 2710 New Hampshire — Digest of Public Welfare Provisions
9L1) AGE ASSISTANCE (Cont‘d) .
(d) Qualifications imposed- (Cont'd)
assistance, an inmate of, or receiving the necessities of life from any
charitable institution maintained by the State, or any of its political
subdivisions, or of a private charitable, benevolent, or fraternal in—
stitution or home for the aged, except in case of temporary medical or
surgical care in a hospital; applicant must not, on account of his physi-
cal condition, be in need of continued institutional care; applicant must
not have deprived himself directly or indirectly of any property for the
purpose of qualifying for assistance; applicant must not, at time of
making application, or oath, be an inmate of any prison, jail, workhouse,
infirmary, insane asylum, or other public correctional institution; during
the period of 10 years immediately preceding application, applicant must
not have been imprisoned for a felony; if a husband, applicant must not
have without just cause failed to support his Wife and children under the
age of 16 years, for 6 months or more during the 10 years preceding appli—
Cation; applicant must not, within one year preceding appliCation, have
been an habitual tramp, beggar, or drunkard. Z/
(a) Incidence of financial responsibility
County,,to be reimbursed by any city or town legally charge—
able. §/ (Obligation mandatory. 9/)
State reimburses each county, city, and town to extent of
5 percent. 19/ .
(f) Taxes
No specific provisions.
(g) Administrative agencies .
Board of County Commissioners. 11/
(h) Supervisory controls
State Board of Welfare and Relief. 12/
________._________.______________________._________._______.______________
7. Laws (1935), Ch. 127, Sec. 2.
8. Ibid, Sec. 6, 23.
9. Ibid, Sec. 3.
10. Ibid, Sec. 7.
11. Ibid, Sec. 6.
Board of County Commissioners makes annual report to Governor and
Council concerning administration of Old Age Assistance. Ibid, Sec. 17.
12. Laws (1935), Ch. 127, Sec. 5.

 New Hampshire - Digest of Public welfare Provisions 2711
. BLIND ASSISTANCE
(a) Description of class

Any person who, by reason of loss of eyesight, is unable to
provide himself with the necessities of life, who has not sufficient means
of his own to maintain himself, and who unless relieved, will become a
charge upon the public or upon those not required by law to support him. 1/

(b) Procedure for determining eligibility

Applicant must file with the County Commissioners of the
county where he resides a duly verified statement of the facts bringing
him within the necessary provisions. No certificate of qualification
to draw money shall be granted until the applicant has filed a statement
signed by a reputable physician, skilled in diseases of the eye, that he
knows the applicant to be blind, and a statement by the selectmen of the
town where applicant resides that he has the residential qualifications
to entitle him to aid, and their recommendation of aid to a certain amount,
nor until the County Commissioners are satisfied from such statements and
upon further examination as they may make that the claim is well founded. 2/
If the County Commissioners are satisfied that the applicant is entitled
to relief, they furnish aid to him. 2/

If an application is denied, or the grant is deemed inade—
quate by the applicant, or the amount of assistance is reduced or with—
drawn and the applicant feels aggrieved by such action of the Commissioners,

. he may apply to the State Board of Welfare and Relief. The Board reviews
the case, and may also, upon its own motion, review any decision made by
the County Commissioners. The Board may make such additional investiga—
tion as it may deem necessary, and make such decision as to the granting
of assistance and the amount and nature of assistance to be granted the
applicant as in its opinion is justified and in conformity with this Act.
All decisions of the State Board are binding upon the counties involved
and must be complied with by the county officials. 3]

If at any time the State Board of Welfare and Relief has
reason to believe that assistance to the blind has been or is being im-
properly granted, it must cause an investigation to be made. If upon such
investigation, it appears that assistance was improperly granted, the Board
must immediately notify the County Commissioners to revoke or modify such
assistance. 3/
_____._________________________________________.____________________________
1. Public Laws (1926), Ch. 115, Sec. 9.

2. Laws (1935), Ch. 137, Sec. 1.
3. Ibid, Sec. 2.

 2712 New Hampshire - Digest of Public Welfare Provisions
BLIND ASSISTANCE (Cont'd) .
(c) Measure of responsibility é]
Direct relief, not exceeding $50 per month. 5/
Surgical or medical treatment (with the consent of the
recipient). E/
(d) Qualifications imposed
Applicant must have been a resident of the State for at
least 5 years within the 9 years, and continuously for the last year,
immediately preceding date of application. 2/
Applicant must be a resident of the county in which appli-
cation is made. 5/
(6) Incidence of financial responsibility,
On the county 95%. (Obligation mandatory.) _5_/ ‘
On the State 57.. (Obligation mandatory.) 1/
' (f) Taxes
No specific provision. (State and county general fund.)
___________________________ O
4. Other Provisions for Aid to Blind: The State Board of Welfare and
Relief may act as a bureau of information and industrial aid for the
_ blind and for the deaf and dumb, and for this purpose may furnish
materials and tools to any blind person, and may assist such blind per—
sons as are engaged in home industries in marketing their products, in
finding employment and in developing home industries for them; and may
ameliorate the condition of the blind by devising means to facilitate
the circulation of books, by promoting visits among the aged or help—
less blind in their homes, and by such other methods as it may deem
expedient. Public Laws (1926), Ch. 115, Sec. 2. The State Board of
Welfare and Relief may in its discretion contribute to the support of
blind persons from the State receiving instruction in industrial insti—
tutions outside of the State. Ibid, Sec. 4.
5. Laws (1955), Ch. 157, Sec. 1. '
6. Public Laws (1926), Ch. 115, Sec. 14.
This relief is in lieu of direct relief. Ibid.
7. Laws (1955), Ch. 157, Sec. 2.

 New Hampshire - Digest of Public Welfare Provisions 2713
. BLIND ASSISTANCE (Cont'd)
(g) Administrative agencies
Board of County Commissioners. §/
(h) Supervisory controls
State Board of Welfare and Relief. 2/
_.___________.______._____.____.__.______..___________________.________
8. Laws (1935), Ch. 137, Sec. 1.
V Board of County Commissioners makes annual report to Governor and
Council concerning administration of Blind Assistance. Ibid, Sec. 2.
9. Laws (1935), Ch. 137, Sec. 2.
State Board of Welfare and Relief also disburses any Federal funds
for Blind Assistance. Ibid.

 2714 New Hampshire u Digest of Public Welfare Provisions
VETERAN RELIEF ‘l’
(a) Description of class

Support;

Any person, resident of the State, who served in the army or
navy, including the marine corps, of the United States in any war, insur—
rection, campaign, or expedition in which the United States was engaged,
and who received an honorable discharge; not being under guardianship or
legal restraint, poor and unable to provide maintenance for himself and
his dependent family, and the Wives, widows, and minor children of such
persons. if

Soldiers' Home:

Men who seryed in the army or navy of the United States, in
the Mexican War, the War of the Rebellion, the Spanish War or the War
with Germany, and honorably discharged therefrom. 2/ No applicant is
admitted to the Home unless he served in a State military organization,
or in the United States army or navy, and was credited to the State in a
time of war and was honorably discharged; or unless after such service
has been a resident of the State for the 5 years next preceding applica—
tion date. é/

Burial:

Any honorably discharged soldier of the United States army .
or sailor or other person serving in the navy or marine corps in any war
in which the United States engaged. g/

(b) Procedure for determining eligibility

Support:

Any person applying for aid must, when requested, furnish to
the Board of County Commissioners or the Overseers of the Poor the certi-
ficate of a reputable physician, resident of the county in which he lives,
as to any incapacity on his part to perform manual labor. 2/

Soldiers' Home:

Board of Managers must make needed by-laws and regulations
for the admission and discharge of inmates. 6/ Upon request of the Board
of Managers of the State Soldiers' Home, the Governor and Council select
a competent board to investigate the industrial and financial condition
of any applicant for admission to the Home. E/

1. Laws (1955), Ch. 78, Sec. 1.

2. Public Laws (1926), Ch. 12, Sec. 1.

3. Laws (1951), Ch. 158, Sec. 3. ,

4. Ibid (1929), Ch. 28, Sec. 1.

5. Public Laws (1926), Ch. 106, Sec. 12. '
6. Ibid, Ch. 12, Sec. 4. .

 New Hampshire _ Digest of Public Welfare Provisions 2715
. VETERAN RELIEF (Cont'd)
(0) Measure of responsibility

Support in own home or such place, other than an almshouse,
as the Overseers of the Poor or the Board of County Commissioners may
deem proper. 2/

Care in State Soldiers' Home §/, or care in almshouse if
applicant for relief refuses to make application for admission to State
Soldiers' Home, or refuses to go to the Home. 2/

Burial expense, not to exceed $100. ig/

(d) Qualifications imposed

Support:

Applicant must have resided in the State for 5 years or more
before making application for aid. 11/

No person may, while receiving aid, use intoxicating liquors
to an extent that renders him incapable of working at his usual occupation;
nor sell any articles furnished him, nor exchange them for intoxicating
liquors; nor share such aid with any persons other than those entiled to
the provisions of such relief. 11/

Any person receiving aid under these provisions, who receives

. a pension from the United States, must, while receiving such aid, apply
the pension to the support of himself and dependent family. 12/
‘ Soldiers' Home:

. Veteran who is or may become unable to earn a livelihood by
reason of wounds, disease, old age or other infirmity and has no adequate
means of support. fi/ (See "Description of class".)

Burial:

Insufficient estate to pay funeral expenses. 19/

(e) Incidence of financial responsibility

Support:

Town or county. (Obligation mandatory.) 2/
__.______._______________________________________________.__._____________

7. Public Laws (1926), Ch. 106, Sec. 9.
8. Ibid, Ch. 12, Sec. 1.

9. Ibid, Ch. 106, Sec. 19.

10. Laws (1929), Ch. 28, Sec. 1.

11. Public Laws (1926), Ch. 106, Sec. 10.
12. Ibid, Sec. 11.

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VETERAN RELIEF (Cont'd) .
(e) Incidence of financial responsibility (Cont'd)

Soldiers' Home:

State. 13/

Burial:

State. (Obligation mandatory.) 1_4/

(f) Taxes
No specific provision.
(g) Administrative agencies

Support:

Count : Board of County Commissioners or Town Overseers of
the Poor. 15/

Town: Overseers of the Poor. 15/

Soldiers' Home:

Board of Managers of State Soldiers' Home. 1e] .

Burial:

Commander and adjutant of Grand Army Post of which deceased
was a member, or the like officers of any other war veterans' organiza—
tion to which he belonged. If he was not a nember of any such organiza—
tion, a majority of the Board of Selectmen of the town, or the mayor, of
mecfiyinwhmhhedmd.ly

(h) Supervisory controls

No provision. 12/

13. Laws (1935), Ch. 157, Sec. 1; Ch. 158, Sec. 1.
14. Laws (1929), Ch. 28, Sec. 1.
15. Public laws (1926), Ch. 106, Sec. 9.
16. Laws (1931), Ch. 138, Sec. 1.
17. The Veterans' Service Officer must assist veterans who are residents
of the State, and their dependents, to secure all State or Federal bene—
fits to which they are entitled. Laws (1935), Ch. 103, Sec. 1.

 New Hampshire 2717

. ABSTRACT or ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

STATE BOARD OF WELFARE AND RELIEF
(Statutory Body)
I. General Powers and Duties
(a) Board:

(1) The State Board of Welfare and Relief has general super-
vision of all neglected, delinquent, or defective children in the State,
and must see that such children receive suitable education, training and
support. The Board must assist in the enforcement of all laws for the -
protection of children and investigate charges brought to its attention,
and, if a crime has been committed, report to the County Solicitor. l/

(2) The Board must inspect all State or county charitable
or correctional institutions, and in m