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 75TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 62-APR. 4, 1938 Saint Elizabeths Hospital by order of the executive authority of the District of Columbia under the provisions of existing law, and expenses of commitments to the District Training School, $1,000. PUBLIC WELFARE Public Welfare. BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE For personal services, including not to exceed $7,250 for contract investigational services, without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), $104,990. DIVISION OF CHILD WELFARE Administration: For administrative expenses, including placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $50, and all office and sundry expenses, $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 that said Board shall have power, upon proper showing, in its dis- cretion, to discharge from guardianship any child 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 children pending investigation or while being transferred from 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, $267,500. For the maintenance, under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Welfare, of a suitable place in a building entirely separate and apart from the house of detention for the reception and detention 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 otherwise 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 $9,560 for personal services, $19,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the operation of this institution after December 31, 1938. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the director of public welfare, upon requisitions 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 official 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 itemized vouchers properly approved. JAIL Salaries: For personal services, $89,760. For maintenance and support of prisoners of the District of Colum- bia at the jail, including subsistence of internes; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and rewards for their 36525-38 - - -12 Board of Public Welfare. Salaries; contract in- vestigational services. 41 U.S.C. §5. Division of Child Welfare. Administrative ex- penses. Restriction on ex- penditure. Home care of de- pendent children. Temporary care pending investigation, etc. Receiving home for children under seven- teen. Maintenance. Post,p. 1123. Proviso. Appropriation not available after De- oember 31, 1938. Advances to direc- tor. Placing and visiting children. Jail. Salaries. Maintenance, etc., of prisoners. 177 52 STAT. ]

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