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 FIFTYFOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11. 419. 1896. 4]] disapproval by said Commissioners of any selection by said board of trustees, the said Commis ioners shall make the appointment. All supplies for said school shall be obtained by requisition upon said Commissioners, and all moneys received at said school as income thereof from sale of products and from payments for board and instruction, or otherwise, shall be paid over to said Commissioners to be expended by them for the support of the school as herein provided. Boiuzn or Cnrr.nnr:N’s Guxnnrxrvsz For the Board of Children’s G@n°j °'·”***¤¤’· Guardians, created under the Act approved July twenty-sixth, eighteen Vol. zz, 5. zcs. hundred and ninety-two, namely: For administrative expenses, including salary of agent, not to exceed one thousand six hundred dollars, expenses in placing and visiting children, and all office and sundry expenses, four thousand dollars; For care of feeble-minded children; care of children under three C¤r¤¤f<=hi1dr¤¤.•tc. years of age, white and colored; board and care of all children over three years of age, and for the temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, twenty- three thousand four hundred dollars; in all, twenty- seven thousand four hundred dollars. And it is hereby declared to be the policy of the Government of the Dcclantionorpuicy United States to make no appropriation of money or property for the §°2,,§‘{,,§'§§',}’,'},T,f,,f°1" purpose of founding, maintaining, or aiding by payment for services, expenses, or otherwise, any church or religious denomination, or any institution or society which.is under sectarian or ecclesiastical control; and it is hereby enacted that, from and after the thirtieth day of June, 1st_ stain-r rpm. eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, no money appropriated for chari- L'§§§},‘§{’;j,§‘gf "’"¤‘°“° table purposes in .the District of Columbia, shall be paid to any church ` or religious denomination, or to any institution or society which is under sectarian or ecclesiastical control. That a joint select committee is hereby authorized, to consist of three C°¤%°¤¤{°¤{*l Jvim Senators to be appointed by the presiding omcer of the Senate, and 2mm2nd-ie¤'t1K°i$;iiZ three Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the *“°*°¤¤·°*°· Speaker of the House, which select committee shall make investigation pm, p. ass. of the charities and reformatory institutions of the District of Columbia, and especially of those for which appropriations are made by this Act, as respects their relations to the Government of the District of Columbia and to the United States, whether by special charter or otherwise, their emciency, their management and resources, whether by appropriations, investments, or otherwise, and also what portion, if any, of appropriations heretofore made to them have been used for the purpose of maintaining or aiding by payment thr services, expenses, or otherwise any church or religious denomination or any institution or society which is under sectarian or ecclesiastical control; whether such charitable or reformatory institutions are effective and economical in their organization, methods, and expenditure to provide for the poor and destitute in the District of Columbia; whether it is practicable for the Commissioners or other authority in the District to make contracts or to otherwise provide for such care of the poor and destitute with any of said institutions, and if so, which of them and to what extent, within the limitations of the policy hereinbefore declared; and if not, the probable expense of providing and maintaining public institutions for such purpose. Said committee shall make report as S00n as practicable after the R'*‘¥’°"‘· beginning of the next session of the present Congress, including in such report any changes by them deemed advisable as respects the methods of dealing with the charities and the reformatory institutions of said District. Said committee is authorized to sit during the recess, and the nec- E*P°¤·°¤·•*°- essary expenses of the committee, including clerical and steuographic work, shall be paid out of the contingent funds of the Senate and House of Representatives, jointly, on the certificate of the chairman of the committee.