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  2. Administration of federal assistance in the United States

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    Project grants are the most common form of grants and a large number are found in scientific research, technology development, education (such as Federal Pell Grants), social services, the arts and health care types of assistance. [citation needed] Formula grants provide funds as dictated by a law. Examples of this type of grant includes Aid to ...

  3. Grant-in-aid - Wikipedia

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    A grant-in-aid is money allocated from a central/state government to subnational governments to provide specific services or fund specific projects. [1] Such funding is usually used when the government and the legislature decide that the recipient should be publicly funded but operate with reasonable independence from the state.

  4. Developmentally Disabled Assistance and Bill of Rights Act

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    The law defined the relatively new term "developmental disability" to include specific conditions that originate prior to age 18, are expected to continue indefinitely, and that constitute a substantial handicap. [2] These conditions included intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, and dyslexia. [2]

  5. Categorical grant - Wikipedia

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    Categorical grants, also called conditional grants, are grants issued by the United States Congress which may be spent only for narrowly defined purposes. They are the main source of federal aid to state and local governments and can be used only for specified categories of state and local spending, such as education or roads.

  6. Persons With Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of ...

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    The Persons With Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 is an Act to give effect to the Proclamation on the Full Participation and Equality of the People with Disabilities in the Asian and Pacific Region.

  7. Bill for the Benefit of the Indigent Insane - Wikipedia

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    The Bill was advocated by activist Dorothea Dix.. The Bill for the Benefit of the Indigent Insane (also called the Land-Grant Bill For Indigent Insane Persons, formally the bill "Making a grant of public lands to the several States for the benefit of indigent insane persons") was proposed legislation that would have established asylums for the indigent insane, and also blind, deaf, and dumb ...

  8. United States Court of Private Land Claims - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Cañon de Chama Grant was reduced from 200,000 to 1,500 acres (800 to 6 km 2). [7] The land of the grants that were rejected, either directly by the court or on appeal through the U. S. Supreme Court, reverted to the public domain of the United States. Among the many problems facing the court were the old Spanish system of ...

  9. File:Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019 on ...

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