SEC. 8. Any state desiring to receive the benefits of this act shall, by its agency described in section four, submit to the Children's Bureau detailed plans for carrying out the provisions of this act within such state, which plans shall be subject to the approval of the board: Provided, That the plans of the states under this act shall provide that no official, or agent, or representative in carrying out the provisions of this act shall enter any home or take charge of any child over the objection of the parents, or either of them, or the person standing in loco parentis, or having custody of such child. If these plans shall be in conformity with the provisions of this act and reasonably appropriate and adequate to carry out its purposes they shall be approved by the board and due notice of such approval shall be sent to the state agency by the chief of the Children's Bureau.

SEC. 9. No official, agent, or representative of the Children's Bureau shall by virtue of this act have any right to enter any home over the objection of the owner thereof, or to take charge of any child over the objection of the parents, or either of them, or of the person standing in loco parentis or having custody of such child. Nothing in this act shall be construed as limiting the power of a parent or guardian or person standing in loco parentis to determine what treatment or correction shall be provided for a child or the agency or agencies to be employed for such purpose.

SEC. 10. Within sixty days after any appropriation authorized by this act has been made, and as often thereafter while such appropriation remains unexpended as changed conditions may warrant, the Children's Bureau shall ascertain the amounts that have been appropriated by the legislatures of the several states accepting the provisions of this act and shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount to which each state is entitled under the provisions of this act. Such certificate shall state (1) that the state has, through its legislative authority, accepted the provisions of this act and designated or authorized the creation of an agency to coöperate with the Children's Bureau, or that the state has otherwise accepted this act, as provided in section four hereof; (2) the fact that the proper agency of the state has submitted to the Children's Bureau detailed plans for carrying out the provisions of this act, and that such plans have been approved by the board; (3) the amount, if any, that has been appropriated by the legislature of the state for the maintenance of the services and facilities of this act, as provided in section two hereof; and (4) the amount to which the state is entitled under the provisions of this act. Such certificate, when in conformity with the provisions hereof, shall, until revoked as provided in section twelve hereof, be sufficient authority to the Secretary of the Treasury to make payment to the state in accordance therewith.

SEC. 11. Each state agency coöperating with the Children's Bureau under this act shall make such reports concerning its operations and expenditures as shall be prescribed or requested by the bureau. The Children's Bureau may, with the approval of the board, and shall, upon request of a majority of the board, withhold any further certificate provided for in section ten hereof whenever it shall be determined as to any state that the agency thereof has not properly expended the money paid to it or the moneys herein required to be appropriated by such state for the purposes and in accordance with the provisions of this act. Such certificate may be withheld until such time or upon such conditions as the Children's Bureau, with the approval of the board, may determine; when so withheld the state agency may appeal to the President of the United States who may either affirm or reverse the action

of the bureau with such directions as he shall consider proper: Provided, That before any such certificate shall be withheld from any state, the chairman of the board shall give notice in writing to the authority designated to represent the state, stating specifically wherein said state has failed to comply with the provisions of this act.

SEC. 12. No portion of any moneys apportioned under this act for the benefit of the states shall be applied, directly or indirectly, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings or equipment, or for the purchase or rental of any buildings or lands, nor shall any such moneys or moneys required to be appropriated by any state for the purposes and in accordance with the provisions of this act be used for the payment of any maternity or infancy pension, stipend, or gratuity.

SEC. 13. The Children's Bureau shall perform the duties assigned to it by this act under the supervision of the Secretary of Labor, and he shall include in his annual report to Congress a full account of the administration of this act and expenditures of the moneys herein authorized.

SEC. 14. This act shall be construed as intending to secure to the various states control of the administration of this act within their respective states, subject only to the provisions and purposes of this act.

1924-Act of March 10, 1924 (43 Stat. L., 17)-An Act To extend the provisions of certain laws to the Territory of Hawaii.

SEC. 3. The Territory of Hawaii shall be entitled to share in the benefits of the Act entitled “An Act for the promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy, and for other purposes," approved November 23, 1921, and any Act amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, upon the same terms and conditions as any of the several States. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1925, there is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $13,000, to be available for apportionment under such Act to the Territory, and annually thereafter such sum as would be apportioned to the Territory if such Act has originally included the Territory.

1925-Act of February 27, 1925 (Public No. 502-68th Congress)—An Act Making appropriations . . for the Departments of Commerce and Labor, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, and for other purposes.

CHILDREN'S BUREAU

Salaries: For the chief, and other personal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classification Act of 1923, $110,000.

To investigate and report upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality, including not to exceed $130,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $135,000.

For traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4 of officers, special agents, and other employees of the Children's Bureau; experts and temporary assistance, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $6 a day, and interpreters to be paid at a rate not exceeding $4 a day when actually employed; purchase of reports and material for the publications of the Children's Bureau, newspapers and clippings not exceeding $700 to enable the Children's Bureau to secure data regarding the progress of legislation affecting children and the activities of public and private organizations dealing with children, and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, $68,000.

Promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy: For carrying out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act for the promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy, and for other purposes," approved November 23, 1921, and of the Act entitled "An Act to extend the provisions of certain laws to the Territory of Hawaii,” approved March 10, 1924, $1,000,000: Provided, That the apportionments to the States, to the Territory of Hawaii, and to the Children's Bureau for administration shall be computed on the basis of not to exceed $1,252,079.96, as authorized by such Acts of November 23, 1921, and March 10, 1924.

APPENDIX 5

FINANCIAL STATEMENT

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Statements showing appropriations, receipts, expenditures and other financial data for a series of years constitute the most effective single means of exhibiting the growth and development of a service. Due to the fact that Congress has adopted no uniform plan of appropriations for the several services and that the latter employ no uniform plan in respect to the recording and reporting of their receipts and expenditures, it is impossible to present data of this character according to any standard scheme of presentation. In the case of some services the administrative reports contain tables showing financial conditions and operations of the service in considerable detail; in other financial data are almost wholly lacking. Careful study has in all cases been made of such data as are available, and the effort has been made to present the results in such a form as will exhibit the financial operations of the service in the most effective way that circumstances permit.

In addition to the direct appropriations made by Congress to the Children's Bureau, the bureau benefits by the general appropriations made to the Department of Labor for rent, stationery, printing, and other miscellaneous expenses. In the following statement appropriations include deficiency amounts but do not include certified claims, which are generally small and may be disregarded. Expenditures are figured on the accrual basis and show the actual amount expended out of the specific appropriation. The item "increase of compensation" gives the total amount paid out in additional salaries (bonus) under the appropriation heads “salaries," "general expenses" and "investigations of child welfare."

CHILDREN'S BUREAU

APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES: 1913 TO 1924, INCLUSIVE*

f Appropriation available for two fiscal years.

No year appropriation, available until expended. The first appropriation was available in March, 1922; the appropriations and expenditures cover the fiscal years 1922 to 1924.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT