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exceed $1 480 000: Provided further, That the additional appropriations herein author
ized shall be apportioned among the States in the proportion which their population
bears to the total population of the United States, not including outlying possessions,
according to the last preceding United States census: And provided further, That no
payment out of the additional appropriation herein authorized shall be made in any
year to anv State until an equal sum has been appropriated for that year by the legis
lature of such State for the maintenance of the services and facilities provided lor in
^sVnvuch of the amount appropriated apportioned to any State for any fiscal year as
remains unexpended at the close thereof shall be available for expenditures in that
State until the close of the succeeding fiscal vear. Any amount apportioned under
the provisions of this act unexpended at the end of the period during which it is avail
able for expenditure under the terms of this section shall be reapportioned, wi^nin
sixty days thereafter, to all the States in the same manner and on the same basis,
and certified to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the State agencies described in
section 4 in the same way as if it were being apportioned under this act for the first
tlI gp C . 3. The Children’s Bureau of the Department of Labor shall be charged with
the carryin" out of the provisions of this act, and the Chief of the Children’s Bureau
shall be the executive officer. The Chief of the Children’s Bureau, as executive
officer, is hereby authorized to form an advisory committee to consult with the < tnet
of the’Children’s Bureau and to advise concerning any problems which may arise
in connection with the carrying out of the provisions of this act, such advisorv com
mittee to consist of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Surgeon General of the United
States Public Health Service, and the United States Commissioner of Education.
The Children’s Bureau shall have charge of all matters concerning the administration
of this act, and shall have power to cooperate with the State agencies authorized to
carry out the provisions of this act. It shall be the duty of the Children s Bureau to
make or cause to be made such studies, investigations, and reports as will promote
the efficient administration of this act. . , . . . , .
Sec 4. That in order to secure the benefits of the appropriations authorized in
in section 2 of this act, anv State shall, through the legislative authority thereof,
accept the provisions of this act and designate or authorize the creation ot a Mate
agencv with which the Children’s Bureau shall have all necessary powers to cooperate
as herein provided in the administration of the provisions of this act. / ronded, 1 hat
in anv State having a child welfare or child hygiene division in its State agency of
health the said State agencv of health shall administer the provisions of unis act
through such divisions. The Children’s Bureau may recommend to the State agencies
cooperating under this act the appointment of advisory committees, both State and
local to assist in carrying out the purposes of this act; the members of such advisory
committees shall be selected by the State agencies, and at least half of such members
shall be women, all of the members of which advisory committee shall serve without
compensation. If in any State, the legislature of which does not meet in 1921, the
governor of that State, so far as he is authorized to do so, shall, under the provisions
of law accept the provisions of this ah and designate or create a State agency to act
in cooperation with the Children’s Bureau, the said Children’s Bureau shall then
recognize such State agency for the purposes of this act until the legislature of such
State meets in due course and has been in session sixty days. . . , ,
Sec. 5. That so much, not to exceed 5 per centum, of the amount authorized tor any
fiscal year under this act, as the Children’s Bureau may estimate to be necessary for
adminsitering the provisions of this act, shall be deducted for that purpose, to be
available until expended. Within sixty days after the close of each fiscal year the
the said Children’s Bureau shall determine what part, if any, of the sums theretofore
deducted for administering the provisions of this act will not be needed tor that pur
pose. and apportion such part, if any, for the fiscal year then current in the same
manner and on the same basis, and certify it to the Secretary of the ireasury and to
the several State agencies described in section 4, in the same way as other amounts
authorized by this act to be apportioned among the several States for such current
fisc Eli year
Sec! 6. That out of the amounts authorized under this act the Children's Bureau
is authorized to employ, to be taken from the eligible lists of the Civil Service Com
mission. such assistants, clerks, and other persons in the city of Washington and
elsewhere, to purchase such supplies, material, equipment, office fixtures, and appa
ratus, and to incur such travel and other expense as it may deem necessary for carrying
out the purposes of this act. ™ , , t>
Sec. 7. That within sixty days after the approval of this act the Children s Bureau
sball certify to the Secretary of the Treasury and to each State agency described in