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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 333 -JUNE 12, 1940 MUNICIPAL LODGING HOUSE For personal services, $3,660; maintenance, $4,000; in all, $7,660. PUBLIC ASSISTANCE For the purpose of affording relief to residents of the District of ielief to the un em- Columbia who are unemployed or otherwise in distress because ofloed,etc. the existing emergency, to be expended by the Board of Public Wel- fare of the District of Columbia by employment and direct relief, in the discretion of the Board of Commissioners and under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Board and without regard to the provisions of any other law, payable from the revenues of the nFom D-. re District of Columbia, $900,000, and not to exceed 12 per centum of this appropriation and of Federal grants reimbursed under this appropriation shall be expended for personal services, including the Personalservices. employment of one general superintendent of public assistance serv- ices at $5,600 per annum, one assistant superintendent of such services at $4,600 per annum, and one stenographer-typist (secretary) at $2,000 per annum, to be appointed without reference to civil-service requirements, not to exceed $31,900 may be expended for the distribu- tion of surplus commodities and relief milk, including $12,200 for personal services, which shall be in addition to such services herein authorized, and not to exceed $49,960 for personal services, which shall be in addition to such services herein authorized, to certify per- sons eligible for work relief and surplus commodities: Provided,That spevion of ac- all auditing, disbursing, and accounting for funds administered counts. through the Public Assistance Division of the Board of Public Welfare, including all employees engaged in such work and records relating thereto, shall be under the supervision and control of the Auditor of the District of Columbia: Provided,That no part of this vondeficien cy pro- appropriation shall be expended in such a manner as to require a deficiency to supplement such appropriation. Home Care for Dependent Children: To carry out the purposes pedent children. d of the Act entitled "An Act to provide home care for dependent children in the District of Columbia", approved June 22, 1926 (44 D. c. code l1- Stat. 758-760), including not to exceed $13,060 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $163,000: Provided, That this appro- Apprtionment of priation shall be so apportioned and distributed by the Commis- funds sioners over the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and shall be so administered during such fiscal year, as to constitute the total amount that will be utilized during such fiscal year for such purposes, and no more than $400 shall be paid for burial of children dying while beneficiaries under said Act. Assistance against old-age want: To carry out the provisions of Oldg asssstance. the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Code of Laws for the District of Columbia in relation to providing assistance against old-age want", approved August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 747), including not to 8D.C. Code, Supp. exceed $57,265 for personal services and other necessary expenses, V,§ 21-5. $582,500. Pensions for needy blind persons: To carry out the provisions ensin for needy of the Act entitled "An Act to provide aid for needy blind persons blnd persons. of the District of Columbia and authorizing appropriations there- v.j -C2-266. for", approved August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 744), $50,000. In expending appropriations contained in this Act under the cap- allocatinstn tion "Public Assistance", not more than the following monthly amounts shall be paid therefrom: Emergency Relief of Residents: reidren efsof Single persons, not more than $24; family of two persons, not more 329

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