Payment by Commonwealth for Care of Feeble-Minded

-We have your request to be advised whether the fiscal officers of the Commonwealth may lawfully approve for payment and pay the sum of $247,418.63 for the maintenance to March 1, 1934, of 647 indigent feeble-minded persons committed to the Philadelphia Institution for Feeble-Minded at Byberry. Philadelphia County seeks to offset this amount against the demand of the Department of Revenue for payment of moneys due to the Commonwealth.

This sum covers a charge for maintenance of inmates for various periods beginning subsequent to February 1925, when the institution was opened. The charge is $2…