Honorable Alice F. Liveright AGO 46 Opinion No. 46 Pennsylvania Attorney General Opinions
Opinion of the Attorney General April 11, 1932 Unemployment Relief—Appropriation—Extraordinary Session of 1931—Department of Welfare—Allocations—Requisitions. Act No. 7E:, 1931, P. h. 1503. Allocations which the Department of Welfare is required to make under Sec. 2 of Act No. 7E, 1931, 1. L. 153, should be based on tables compiled and furnished by the Department of Labor and Industry. Requisitions against the appropriation should be drawn:— (a) Where a county and a poor district are co-extensive, the requisitions should be paybale to the county poor district. (b) Where a county is not coextensive with a poor district, requisitions should be payable to the county treasurer. (c) Requisitions for the allocations to Philadelphia County should be pay able to the City Treasurer of Philadelphia. Honorable Alice F. Liveright, Secretary of Welfare, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Madam: You have asked to be advised: First: Upon what basis to make the allocations which your department is required to make under Section 2 of Act No. 7-E, 1931 Pamphlet Laws 1503; and, Second: To whom requisitions should be drawn under Section 3 of the same act. Section 2 of Act No. 7-E provides that your department shall make an allocation during each of the months December, 1931, and January, February, March, April, and May, 1932, of the amounts, aggregating ten million dollars ($10,000,000), set forth in Section 1. The allocation was directed to be among the several counties of the State on a ratio that the estimated number of unemployed persons in a county bears to the estimated total number of unemployed persons in the Commonwealth "as shown by the tables compiled and issued by the Department of Labor and Industry." The section continues: "The December allocation shall be made on the basis of the table contained in Special Bulletin Number thirty-three, Page thirteen, issued by the Department of Labor and Industry in July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one or on the basis of any later table issued by said Department of Labor and Industry prior to the time any allocation is to be made by the Department of Welfare, and the basis of allocation shall be changed from time to time as new tables are issued by the Department of Labor and Industry...
