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 74'rII CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 241. JUNE 14, 1935. PUBLIC WELFARE BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE For personal services, $115,990. DIVISION OF CHI LD WELF ARE Administration : For administrative expenses, including placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and period icals not ex ceeding $50, and al l offi ce and sundry expen ses, $3,500, and no part of the money herein appropriated shall be used for the purpose of visiting any ward of the Board of Public Welfare placed outside the District of Columbia and the States of Virginia and Maryland ; and a ward placed outside said District and the States of Virginia and Maryland shall be visited not less than once a year by a voluntary agent or correspondent of said Board, and th at sai d Board shall have p ower, upon p roper s howing , in its disc retion, to disc harge from guar dianship any c hild committed to its care. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of c hildren pending investigation or while being transferred fr om place to place, with authority to pay not more than $1,500 each to institutions under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the board, $250,000. To carry out the purposes of the Act entitled "An Act to provide home care for dependent children in the District of Columbia ", approved June 22, 1926 (44 Stat ., pp . 758-760), including not to exceed $13,060 for personal se rvices in the D istrict of Col umbia, $163,060 : Provided, That this appropriation shall be so apportioned by the Commissioners as to prevent a deficiency therein, and no more than $100 per month shall be paid therefrom to any one fami ly and no more than $400 shall be paid for b urial of childr en dying while beneficiaries under said Act. For the maintenance, under the jurisdiction of the Board of Pub- lic Welfare, of a suitable place in a building entirely separate and apart from the house of detent ion for the rec eption and det ention of children under seventeen years of age arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Colum- bia, or committed to the guardianship of the Board, or held as wit- nesses, or held temporarily, or pending hearing, or othe rwis e, including transportation, food, clothing, medicine, and medicinal supplies, rental, repair and upkeep of buildings, fuel, gas, electricity, ice, supplies and equipment, and other necessary expenses including not to exceed $19,1 20 for person al ser vices, $36,6 80. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the director of pub lic welfare, up on requisition s pre- viously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said director by the com- missioners, sums of money not to exceed $400 at any one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on offi- cial business of the board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expenditures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemi zed vou chers properly approved. JAIL 363 Public Welfare. Board of Public Wel- fare. Post, p. 578. Personal servi ces. Child Welfare Divi- sion. Administrative ex- penses . Restriction on ex- penditure. Board, etc., of chil- dren. Post, p. 1613. name care of depend- ent children. Vol. 44, p. 758. Proviso. Apportionment re- strict ions. Receiving home for children under seven- teen. Maintenance, etc. Post, p. 1613. Advan ces to d irec tor. Limit. Jail. Salaries : For personal services, $76,470. Salaries. For maintenance and support of prisoners of the District of Maintenance, etc ., of Columbia at the jail, expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing prPos,p .1613.