Paternity Legislation

Containers:

Box 6

Scope and content:

– "Chapter 203 (S.H.B.19) Provisions for Maintenance of Child Born Out of Wedlock (Session Laws, State of Washington, 1919); US Department of Labor, Illegitimacy Laws of the United States passed during the years 1919 to 1922, inclusive. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1922; Idaho Session Laws, 1925, Chap. 198, P. 368, "An Act Making it a misdemeanor for one not being the husband of a woman to get her with child … (1925); "General Survey of 1923 Child Welfare Legislation", US Department of Labor (29 September 1923); Lanpher, Henry Coe: "Illegitimacy and Paternity Legislation" (undated); House Bill 167 (undated); broadside of Ernest Freund "A Uniform Illegitimacy Act", reprinted from Survey (15 October 1922); "A Bill to Provide for establishing the paternity of children born out of wedlock an to fix the duties, liabilities and obligations of the fathers of such children" (undated); some correspondence with Virginia Governor Jno. Garland Pollard (1933)

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