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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
k“ rererence thereto. A chart showing the organizational relationships
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 INDEX TO
DIGEST OF WELFARE IAWS OF STATE OF TEXAS
Public Welfare Provisions nge
. General Poor Relief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4101
Aid to Dependent Children in Their Own Homes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4102
Care of Dependent and Neglected Children (Institutions and Agencies). . . . 4103
Old Age Assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4105
Veterans' Relief. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4107
Administrative Provisions
‘ State Board of Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4110
State Home for Dependent and Neglected Children. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4115
State Juvenile Training School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4117
Austin State School. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4119
Wichita Falls, Terrell, Rusk, San Antonio, and Austin State Hospitals
and the Galveston State Hospital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4121
. Abilene State Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4125
State Tuberculosis Sanatorium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4128
State Tuberculosis Sanatorium for Negroes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4131
State Orphans' Home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4134
Girls' Training School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4136
Colored Girls' Training School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4139
School for Blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4142
School for Deaf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4144
Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum (Institute) for Colored Youths
and Colored Orphans'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4146
Confederate Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4149
Confederate Women's Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4152
Dallas State Hospital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4154
- State Prison Board and Manager of Prison System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4158
Board of Pardons and Paroles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4162
Old Age Assistance Commission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4166
State Commission for the Blind. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4169
Juvenile Court. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4171
Commissioners' Court. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4176
County Child Welfare Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4177
Chart Showing Public Welfare Agencies

 Texas 4101
. DIGEST OF PUBLIC WELFARE PROVISIONS
GENERAL POOR RELIEF
(a) Description of class
Paupers, unable to support themselves 1/, and indigent
sick 2/; indigent public charges afflicted with tuberculosis. g/
(b) Procedure for determining eligibility
The Commissioners' Court must issue all notices, citations,
writs and processes as may be necessary for the proper execution of the
powers and duties imposed on such court, including providing for the
support of paupers. g/
(c) Measure of responsibility
Support 1/ (form not specified); burial §/; hospitalization 6/;
care in poor houses and farms. 2/
(d) Qualifications imposed
Applicant must be a bona fide resident of the county for not
less than 6 months and of the State not less than one year. 1/
. (e) Incidence of financial responsibility
On the county. (Obligation mandatory. 1/)
' (f) Taxes
No general provision, but Commissioners' Court may lawfully
issue bonds for purpose of establishing the poorhouse and farm, the bond
issue to be retired by a property tax for all county purposes not to
exceed 5% of the county's taxable value. 2/
(g) Administrative agencies
County: Commissioners' Court. 1/
(h) Supervisory controls
No provision.
1. Complete Stat. (1928), Art. 2551(11).
2. Ibid, Art. 4458.
3. Ibid, Art. 3241.
4. Ibid, Art. 2351(14).
5. Ibid, Art. 2351(12).
6. Ibid, Art. 5198, 4438.
7. Complete Stat. (1951 Supp.), Art. 722.

 4102 Texas - Digest of Public welfare Provisions
ADD TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN IN THEIR OWN HOMES .
(a) Description of class
Any widow who is the mother of a child or children under
16 years of age, and who is unable to support them, maintain her home
and properly educate her children. By widow is meant a mother who is
widowed by death or divorce, or whose husband has abandoned her for more
than the 2 preceding years. or whose husband is confined in the peni-
tentiary or in a state hospital for insane. 1/
(b) Procedure for determining eligibility _
Mother may present a sworn petition for aid to the Commissioners'
Court of the county wherein she has resided. The Court must cause a hearing V
and examination to be held, and if it concludes relief is necessary, it
may make an order directing monthly Payments to the mother. 1/
(c) Measure of responsibility
Fifteen dollars for support of one child, and $6 for each additional
child, provided such allowance must be discontinued for any child as soon
as such child reaches the age of 16 years. 1/
(d) Qualifications imposed
In the sworn petition for assistance, the widow must show:
(a) The time and place of her marriage, date of death of husband, or date .
of his confinement in the penitentiary or in an insane asylum, or date 7
of his abandonment of her; (b) her length of residence in State, her
present residence, and her residence during each of the previous 5 years;
(c) all property belonging to her and to each of her children, including
any future or contingent interest she or any of them.may have; (d) efforts
made to support her children; (a) name, address, and relationship of each
of her husband's relatives that may be known; petition for assistance
made in county wherein applicant has resided for the preceding 2 years;
unless relief is granted the widow will be unable to properly support
and educate her children, and they may become a public charge. 1/
(c) Incidence of financial responsibility
0n the county. (Obligation mandatory. l/)
(f) Taxes
No specific provision. (County general fund.)
(g) Administrative agencies
County: Commissioners' Court. 1/
(h) Supervisory controls
.No provision.
1. Laws (1931), Ch. 251, Sec. 1. .

 Texas ~ Digest of Public welfare Provisions 4103
. CARE OF DEPENDENTAND NEGLECTED CHILDREN (DISTITUI‘ ICES AND AGENCIES)
(a) Description of class
Any child under 16 years of age who is dependent upon the
public for support or who is destitute, homeless, or abandoned; or who
has not proper parental care or guardianship, or who habitually bags
or receives alms, or who is found living in any house of ill-fame or
with any vicious or disreputable person, or whose home, by reason of
neglect, cruelty or depravity on the part of its parent, guardian or
other person in whose care it may be, is an unfit place for such child;
or any such child whose parents or guardian permit it to use intoxicat-
ing liquor except for medicinal purposes, or to become addicted to the
use of such liquors, or permit it in or about any place where intoxicat-
ing liquors are sold. 1/
(b) Procedure for determining eligibility
Any person who is a resident of the county, having knowledge
of a child in his county who appears to be a dependent or neglected child
may file with the district clerk of his county a verified written petition
setting forth the facts constituting the child dependent or neglected. 2/
The court must fix a time and place for hearing of such petition.§/ Upon
hearing of such case, the court must investigate the facts and ascertain
whether the child is dependent and the causes thereof 4/; and if the
child is found to be dependent, it must be so adjudged and an order may
be entered making disposition of the child as the court deems best for
. it moral and physical welfare.§/
(c) Measure of responsibility
A "dependent" or "neglected" child may be turned over to
. the care and custody of any suitable person or any suitable institution
in the county or State which are able and willing to care for it. 5/
The child may be permitted to remain in its own home and under care and
control of its own parents or guardian subject to jurisdiction and
direction of court. 6/ Commitment may be made to the State Orphans'
Home 2/, State Home for Dependent and Neglected Children 8/, Girls
Training School and Colored Girls Training School. 9/
1. Complete Stat. (1928), Art. 2330.
2. Ibid, Art. 2331.
3. Ibid, Art. 2332.
4. Ibid, Art. 2333.
5. Ibid, Art. 2335.
6. Ibid, Art. 2336.
7. Ibid, Art. 3208.
8. Ibid, Art. 3257.
9. Ibid, Art. 3259a.

 4104 Texas — Digest of Public Welfare Provisions
CARE OF DEPENDENT AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN (INSTITUTIONS AND AGENCIES) (Cont 'd) .
(d) Qualifications imposed
When a child is turned over to the custody of any individual
or institution, such person or institution has the right to the custody
of the child, and is at all times responsible for its education and
maintenance, subject to the order of the court 10/, and subject to visita-
tion or inspection by any person appointed by the court, and such person
or institution may be required to report periodically to the court, in
order that the court be fully advised as to the care, education, mainte—
nance, moral and physical training of the child. 11/
(6) Incidence of financial responsibility
On county. 12/ (Obligation optional. 10/)
On State. 13/ (Institutional care) (Obligation optional. lO/)
(f) Taxes
If adequate funds are not available from current funds of
ceunty for building of parental homes, the Commissioners' Court may submit
. a proposition for issuance of county bonds to vote of county. The Commis-
sioners' Court may levy sufficient taxes to retire these bonds. 14/
(3) Administrative agencies
County: District court has original jurisdiction in proceed-e .
ings wherein it is sought to have a child adjudged dependent or neglected. 12/
(h) Supervisopy controls
Division of Child Welfare in the State Board of Control. 16/
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10. Complete Stat. (1928), Art. 2335.
11. Ibid, Art. 2336.
12. Ibid, Art. 5138.
13. Laws (1935), Ch. 352.
14. Complete Stat. (1931 Supp.), Art. 5138a.
15. Ibid (1928), Art. 2329.
16. Ibid (1931 Supp.), Art. 695a(lO).

 Texas - Digest of Public Welfare Provisions 4105
. OLD AGE ASSISTANCE
(a) Description of class
Every needy person over 65 years of age and residing in
State. y
(b) Procedure for determining eligibility
Any person over the age of 65 years may present or mail an
application in writing for an old age assistance grant to the local
administrative agency designated by the State Old Age Assistance Commis-
sion to receive the same. Such application must be on forms prescribed by
the Commission and must be duly sworn to by the applicant. 2/ Upon the
filing of such application, it is the duty of the local administrative
agency in the county or district in which application is made to investi-
gate such sworn statement. After examination and investigation, the
local agency shall enter an order granting the same, in whole or in part
or in denying the same, and transmit a copy of the same to the Commission.
Any aggrieved applicant or recipient may appeal to Commission for a
review of application. The order of the Commission is final. 5/
(c) Measure of responsibility
Amount of assistance from State may not exceed $15 per month;
but in case Federal funds are allocated to State, applicant may receive an
additional sum. In no case may the amount of aid when added to income of
. applicant from all sources exceed a total of $50 per month. _4/
(d) Qualifications imposed
Applicant must be a citizen of the United States; must have
resided in State 5 years or more within the last 9 years preceding date
. of application, and must have resided continuously in the State for one
year immediately preceding the application. Applicant is not at time
of receiving aid an inmate of any public or private home for the aged, or
any public or private institution of a custodial, correctional, or curative
character. Applicant has not made a voluntary assignment or transfer of
property for purpose of qualifying; has an income, if a single person, from
all sources not exceeding $560 per year, or if married, a combined income
not exceeding $720; does not own property.real, personal or mixed, the
fair value of which, less all incumbrances and liens, exceeds, if single,
$5,000, or if married, $7,500; does not have or own cash or marketable
securities, the fair value of which exceeds $500, if single, or $1,000, if
married. Applicant is not an habitual criminal or habitual drunkard.
Applicant has no husband or wife able to furnish an adequate support. 5]
._______._.___.__.__.________________________________________________________.
1. Laws (1955 2nd. Sp. Sess.), H. B. 26, Sec. 1.
2e Ibid, Sec. 7e
5. Ibid, Sec. 8.
4. Ibid, Sec. 9a.
5. Ibid, Sec. 2.

 4106 Texas — Digest of Public Welfare Provisions
01D AGE ASSISTANCE (Cont'd) .
(d) Qualifications imposed (Cont'd)

If, on death of any recipient, it is found he was
possessed of property or income in excess of the amount so provided,
the total amount of assistance in excess of that to which he was
entitled may be recovered by the Commission as a preferred claim,
together with 6% interest from the estate of the deceased; one—
half of the amount so recovered must be paid over to the Federal
Government in such manner as Social Security Act may require. _6_/

(e) Incidence of financial responsibility

0n State. 2/ (Obligation mandatory. §_/)
(f) Taxes

No specific provision. (State General Fund)
(g) Administrative agencies

Local administrative agency designated by State Old

Age Assistance Commission. 2/

(h) Supervisory controls
Old Age Assistance Commission. 10/ .

6. Laws (1955 2nd. Sp. Sess.), H. B. 26, Sec. lld.

'7. Ibid, Sec. 8.

8. Ibid, Sec. 1.

9. Ibid, Sec. '7.

10. Ibid, Sec. 5.

 Texas - Digest of Public Welfare Provisions 4107
. VETERANS' RELIEF
(a) Description of class

Pensions:

Indigent or disabled Confederate soldier or sailor, whose
application has heretofore been approved, and any who came to Texas prior
to January 1, 1928; and their widowa whose applications have been hereto-
fore approved or who have been bona fide residents since January 1, 1921,
and have lived with such soldier or sailor continuously for at least 10
years immediately prior to his death; provided, no widow born since
January 1, 1873 is entitled to a widow's pension. _1_/

Care in Confederate Hone:

Disabled and indigent Confederate veteran not receiving
pension from any source, and if he did not serve under a Texas command,
was a bona fide resident of Texas on January 1, 1895. 3/

Any woman who is wife of Confederate soldier who is an inmate
of Confederate WOman's Home and her husband is an inmate of the Confederate
Home, may, on her request, be transferred to the Confederate Home. E/

Confederate woman's Home:

Indigent wives and widows over 60 years of age, of disabled

. ex—Confederate soldiers and sailors who entered the service from Texas or
who came to the State prior to January 1, 1880, and whose disability is
the proximate result of actual service of at least 3 months and also
women who aided the Confederacy. g/

(b) Procedure for determining eligibility

Pensions:

Application must be made in writing and under oath to the
county Judge of the applicant's county, and each applicant must furnish
the testimony of at least one credible witness who personally knows the
facts of the application; or he may furnish documentary evidence of such
facts, and the affidavit must be accompanied by a sworn statement of at
least 2 credible witnesses who have known the applicant for at least 10
years and who have no financial interest in the welfare of the appli-
cant. 2/

A widow must make application and state facts by affidavit
showing her eligibility to the county judge, and he must make an order
that such pension be paid to her. §/

1. Complete Stat. (1931 Supp.), Art. 6205.
2. Ibid (1928), Art. 3216.
3. Ibid (1951 Supp.), Art. 5217.
4. Ibid (1928), Art. 3218.
5. Ibid (1931 Supp.), Art. 6208.
. 6. Ibid (1928), Art. 6212.

 4108 Texas - Digest of Public Welfare Provisions
VETERANS' RELIEF (Cont'd) .
(b) Procedure for determining eligibility (Cont'd)

Confederate Home and Confederate Woman's Home:

Application made to respective home for admission, all applica-
tions must be passed upon by the State Board of Control. 2/

(c) Measure of responsibility

Pensions:

Fifty dollars per month to each married veteran living with his
wife; to each veteran now unmarried, or a widower or widow, the sum of $25
per month. §/

Burial:

When any pensioner dies, an amount not exceeding $100 is paid
to cover funeral expenses. 2/

Confederate Home and Confederate woman's Home:

Care in these homes.

(d) flalifications imposed . _

Pensions:

A widow born Since January 1, 1875, is not entitled to a
pension; but a widow entitled to a pension who remarries a man other than a
Confederate soldier or sailor is not barred from receiving a pension, in the
event she be left a widow after such remarriage, so long as she remains a
widow. 10/

Soldiers or widows over 88 years of age, who have been bona
fide citizens of Texas since prior to January 1, 1950, are entitled to
pensions, if otherwise pensionable. 10/

No application may be allowed, nor any aid be given or pension
paid, to any soldier or sailor, or the widow of such, when any such soldier
deserted his command or voluntarily abandoned his post; no aid may be
given any widow who lives separately from her soldier or sailor husband and
continued to live separately up to the time of his death. 11/
.________._______.___________.____________._____.___________._________________

7. Complete Stat. (1928), Art. 5216, 5219.

8. Ibid (1951 Supp.), Art. 6221.

9. Ibid, Art. 6227.

10. Ibid, Art. 6205. '
11. Ibid (1928), Art. 6217.

 Texas - Digest of Public Welfare Provisions 4109
. VETERANS' RELIEF (Cont'd)
(d) Qualifications impoaed (Cont'd)
— Pensions: (Cont'd)
No person may receive a pension while confined in any asylum
of this State, at the expense of State, or in the State penitentiary;
and any person having been granted a pension and afterwards so confined,
must during that period forfeit his pension. No pensioner who is absent
for more than 6 months from State may draw a pension. 12/
If any pensioner be admitted to the Confederate Home or the
Confederate woman's Home, he is thereafter entitled to receive pension
payments in one-half of the amount of pension he would otherwise be
entitled to receive. 1_2/
(0) Incidence of financial responsibility
Pensions:
On the State. (Obligation mandatory. 13/)
Burial:
On the State. (Obligation optional. 15/)
. Care in Confederate Home or Confederate Womn's Home:
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On the State. (Obligation mandatory. 14/)
(f) Taxes
Pensions:
. There must be levied annually an ad valorem tax of 74 on the
$100 valuation of all property in State for payment of pensions. 16/
g (3) Administrative agencies
Pensions:
County Judge. 17/
Institutional care:
State Board of Control passes upon all applications for
admission to either of the homes, submitted to the superintendent thereot. lg]
(h) Supgrvisogz controls
Nb provision.
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12. Complete Stat. (1928), Art. 6220.
13. Ibid (1931 Supp.), Art. 6204. 16. Ibid (1931 Supp.), Art. 6204.
. 14. Ibid (1928), Art. 321:5, 3219. 17. Ibid. Art- 6208-
15. Ibid (1931 Supp.), Art. 6227. 18. Ibid (1928), Art. 3216, 3218.

 4110 Texas
ABSTRACT or ADMINISTRATJlE PROVISIONS .
STATE BOARD OF QEgTROL
(Statutory Body)
I. General Powers and Duties
(a) Board of Control:

(1) The State Board of Control has the general control,
management, and direction of the affairs, property, and business of all
State eleemosynary institutions. The following are included under its
Division of Eleomoaynary Institutions and Child Welfare: l/

State Home for Dependent and Neglected Children

State Juvenile Training School

Austin State School

Wichita Falls State Hospital

Terrell State Hospital

Rusk State Hospital

San Antonio State Hospital

Austin State Hospital

Galveston State Psychopathic Hospital

Dallas State Hospital

Abilene State Hospital

State Tuberculosis Sanatorium .

State Tuberculosis Sanatorium for Negroes

State Orphans' Home

Girls' Training School

Colored Girls' Training School

Texas School for Blind

Texas School for Deaf

Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institute for Colored Youths
and Colored Orphans' Bonn

Confederate Home

Confederate Woman's Home

(2) The Board of Control has the power to make rules and
regulations for the government of the State eleemosynary institutions, and
to make contracts necessary for their efficiency and best interests. 3/

(5) The Board must maintain an effective inspection of insti—
tutions under its control and management, for which purpose a representa—
tive of the Board must visit each institution once a month, and members of
the Board must visit each of them at least once a year. 2/

1. Complete Stat. (1928), Art. 605, 5174; Laws (1931), Ch. 194; Laws (1935),

Ch. 352.

The State Board of Control includes other divisions and possesses addi-
tional powers and duties, of a non—welfare nature, which are not treated in
this digest. Complete Stat. (1928), Art. 603.

2. Complete Stat. (1928), Art. 693. .

 Texas - Abstract of Administrative Provisions 4111
. I. General Powers and Duties (Cont'd)
(a) Board of Control: (Cont'd)

(4) The Board of Control has the power to appoint all superin—
tendents, officers, and employees of the several institutions under its
control; and it may fix their salaries and wages, and, upon recommendation
of the respective superintendents, it may discharge any officer, employee,
or inmate. Each superintendent appointed by the Board serves a 2—year term,
subject to removal by the Board for good cause, and has the following
general powers and duties: g/

(a) To have general charge of everything connected With the
institution over which he presides, subject to the rules of the Board; and
to be chief disbursing officer of the asylum. g/

(b) To establish such rules and regulations for the
government of the institution in his charge as he deems will best promote
the interest and welfare of its inmates. §/

(c) Where not otherwise provided by law, to appoint
subordinates, fix their salaries, and remove same for good cause, with the
consent of the Board. §/

(d) To receive and discharge patients and pupils, to care
for and have custody of property belonging to the institution, to see that
all moneys intrusted to him are judiciously expended, and to keep accurate

. accounts of all moneys. §j
‘ (e) To keep a register of all patients and pupils and to
maintain a full record of all operations of the institution. 2/
(5) The Board of Control must examine and approve or reject
any vouchers or accounts of the superintendents, exercise a careful supervision
over the general operations of the several institutions and control their
expenditures, and direct the manner in which their revenues are disbursed. g/
(6) The Board, and the GOVernor, have the right to release
juveniles from penal or reformatory institutions, when juveniles are
qualified. 2/
(7) -The Board serves in a purely supervisory relationship
with the county child welfare boards, both of which work jointly with the
county commissioners for the care and protection of dependent and neglected
children in the several counties; and the Board is administratively active,
in conjunction with the local boards of education and the State Department '
of Public Instruction, through its agents and institutions, in the improve-
ment of the mental and physical conditions of all children who present
problems in development. 10/
______________________________________________________________________._____
5. Complete Stat. (1928), Art. 691, 693.
4. Ibid, Art. 317?.
5. Ibid, Art. 3176.
6. Ibid, Art. 3175, 5176.
. 7. Ibid, Art. 5175.
8. Ibid, Art. 693. .
9. Revised Civil Stat. (1925), See. 5126.
10. Complete Stat.(l928 Supp.), Art. 695e, Sec.5; Complete Stat.(l92@. Art.3191.

 4113 Texas - Abstract of Administrative Provisions
I. General Powers and Duties (Cont'd) .
(b) Division of Eleemosypapy Institutions:
The several institutions listed in (1), "Board of Control",
are included under the Division of Eleemosynary Institutions.
(c) Division of Child Welfare

(1) The Board through the Division of Child Welfare must promote
the enforcement of all laws for the protection of defective, illegitimate,
dependent, neglected, and delinquent children; and it must visit and study
conditions of the eleemosynary institutions maintained by State appropriations
for the care and custody of such children, namely: The State Orphans' Home,
Home for Dependent and Neglected Children, Girls' Training School, Juvenile
Training School, Austin State School, and the Colored Orphans' Home. 11/

(2) The licensing, visiting, and inspection of all such
agencies for defective, dependent, delinquent, or neglected children is a
duty of the Division of Child Welfare. 1§/

(3) The Division of Child Welfare, with the Board of Control,
approves all commitments of children to State reformatory or charitable
institutions which are made by the juvenile courts in the State. 13/

II. Cogposition and Appointment of Governipg Body
The State Board of Control consists of 3 persons, citizens
of the State, who are appointed by the Governor for 6-year rotating terms. .
For the 2 years ending August 31, 1936 and August 31, 1937, their salaries
are $4,200 annually, plus the additional sum of $100 per month while acting
as Relief Directors of the Stats. Members of the Board are public officers, ,
and each is required to give bond in the form prescribed by the Attorney
General in the sum of $50,000. The Board elects one of its number chairman.
Two members are always necessary for the consideration of any question, and
minutes of their proceedings must be recorded. 13/
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11. Complete Stat. (1928 Supp.), Art. 695a, Sec. 2, 10.

The exclusive possession and custody of all delinquent, dependent, ille—
gitimate and other minor children, who are now in institutions owned or managed
by the State of Texas, is vested in the Board of Control. These children are
not wards of a court, and are declared to be charges of the State unless con-
finement be under sentence of some penal offense, or unless the respective

. parents of the children remove them therefrom within 60 days. When any child
is found by a District Court to be dependent, neglected or abandoned by its
parents or custodians, the Board of Control takes custody of it. If, upon 30
days notice to the parent or guardian of the child, it is not shown to the
satisfaction of the County Child Welfare Board or other agency selected by the
Board of Control, that the child can be cared for by such person, the Board
may assign the child to some institution of the State for a period of 30 days.
If within that time, the parent or other person has not qualified himself to
take charge of the child, the guardianship of the child may be assigned to any
person or institution that the District Court may deem capable of supporting,
maintaining and educating said child. Ibid, Sec. 11.

12. Complete Stat. (1928 Supp.), Art. 695a, Sec. 8.
13. Complete Stat. (1928), Art. 2529. .
14. Ibid, Art. 601, 602; Laws (1935), Ch. 364.

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. II. Composition and Appointment of Governing Body (Cont'd)

‘ The State Board of Control is the governing body of the
Division of Eleemosynary Institutions and the Division of Child Welfare. lé/
III. Reports

The Board of Control must, in each alternate year, submit a
report to the State Legislature detailing the last year‘s Operation. Inserted
in such report must be the general result of the inspections of institutions
and the reports of the medical superintendents and stewards. 16/

The State auditor must submit his annual report to the
Governor relating an itemized, complete, financial balance sheet for the
State at the close of the preceding year, and the names and allotments made
of all institutions, departments, and boards. 17/

The superintendent of each institution under the Board of
Control must report to the Board and to the Governor tsice each year, on
January 1 and Iuly l, detailing the proceedings or such institution and the ,
amount of money received and disbursed; and on November 1, of each year, the
superintendent must submit to the Board an inventory of all personal property
belonging to the institution. 18/

IV. Executive
(a) Board of Control:
. See "Composition and Appointment of Governing Body".
(b) Division of Eleemosznarz Institutions:

The Chief of the Division of Eleemosynary Institutions is
appointed by the Board of Control. He must be an active practising surgeon
who has been actively engaged in the practice of the profession for not less
than 10 years immediately preceding his appointment, and a physician of gen-
erally recognized eminence. 12/

p (c) Division of Child Welfare:

The Chief of the Division of Child Welfare is employed by
the Board of Control to serve at a salary, detenmined by the Board, not to
exceed $3,600 per year. The Chief must be qualified by adequate education,
training, and experience. The experience of the person will be deemed suffi-
cient if he has had 5 years or more of practical experience in child welfare
work preceding his appointment. 20/
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15. Complete Stat. (1928), Art. 603, 3174.

16. Ibid, Art. 693. ,

17. Complete Stat. (1928 Supp.), Art. 689a.

18. Complete Stat. (1928), Art. 3178, 3175.

19. Ibid, Art. 690.

20. Complete Stat. (1928 Supp.), Art. 695a, Sec. 1.

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V's “Staff .
A secretary and such other clerks, stenographers, auditors,
beehhsepers, and clerical help as are necessary may be employed by the Board
of Control in the administration of i