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 646 74Tx CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 531. AUGUST 14, 1935 . ( 2) Any c itizens hip requ irement which excludes any ci tizen of the United States. Payment to States. SEC. 1003 . (a) From the sums appropriated therefor, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to each State which has an approved plan for aid to the blind, for each quarter, beginning with the quarter commencing July 1, 1935, (1) an amount, which shall be used exclu- sively as aid to the blind, equal to one-half of the total of the sums expended during such quarter as aid to the blind under the State plan with respect to each individual who is blind and is not an inmate of a public institution, not counting so much of such expenditure with respect to any individual for any month as Admi nistr atio n cos ts. exceeds $30, and (2) 5 per centum of such amount, which shall be used for paying the costs of administering the State plan or for aid to the blind, or both, and for no other purpose. ins Method and of paying - ( b) The method of computing and paying such amounts shall be amounts. as follows : mates to be sub- mi tted. (1) The Board shall, prior to the beginning of each quarter, Basiof. estimate the amount to be paid to the State for such quarter under the provisions of clause (1) of subsection (a), such estimate to be based on (A) a report filed by the State containing its estimate of the total sum to be expended in such quarter in accordance with the provisions of such clause, and stating the amount appropriated or made available by the State and its political subdivisions for such expenditures in such quarter, and if such amount is less than one- half of the total sum of such estimated expenditures, the source or sources from which the difference is expected to be derived, (B) records showing the number of blind individuals in the State, and (C) such other investigation as the Board may find necessary. (2) The Board shall then certify to the Secretary of the Treas- ury the amount so estimated by the Board, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any sum by which it finds that its estimate for any prior quarter was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid to the State under clause (1) of subsection (a) for such quarter, except to the extent that such sum has been applied to make the amount certified for any prior quarter greater or less than the amount estimated by the Board for such prior quarter. (3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Board, the amount so certified, increased by 5 per centum. Amount quarterly. to be paid Matchi ng fun ds by St ates. Certification of amount by Board; ad- justments. Paymen dit w aived n ts; prior an Operation of State plans. Payments withhold when State not com- plying with approved plan; notice and hear- ing. PAYME NT TO S TATES OPERATION OF STATE PLANS SEC. 1004. In the case of any State plan for aid to the blind which has been approved by the Board, if the Board, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency administering or supervising the administration of such plan, finds- (1) that the plan has been so changed as to impose any residence or citizenship requirement prohibited by section 1002 (b), or that in the administration of the plan any such prohibited requirement is imposed, with the knowledge of such State agency, in a substan- tial number of cases ; or (2) that in the ad ministra tion of the pla n there is a fa ilure to comply substantially with any provision required by section 1002