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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 452 -JUNE 27, 1942 Ante, p. 194. Restriction on use of funds. 55 Stat. 882 . Prhiso. Maintenance of three foster homes. Receiving home for children under 18. unless, prior to three days before the time set for such trials, includ- ing Sundays and legal holidays, a new date for trial be set by the court, cases be discontinued or settled, or demands for jury trials be waived. Expenses: For all necessary expenses, other than salaries and fees and printing and binding, including lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, rebinding of books, medicines, lodging, and meals for jurors and for bailiffs and deputy United States marshals while in attendance upon jurors, when ordered by the court, $10,707. THE MUNICIPAL COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Salaries and expenses: For personal services and all necessary expenses, other than printing and binding, of the Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, created by the Act of April 1, 1942, $44,600, of which $3,000 shall be immediately avail- able for payment of 1942 obligations. MISCELLANEOUS Probation system: For personal services, $18,820; contingent expenses, $800; in all, $19,620. PUBLIC WELFARE BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE For personal services, and including not to exceed $6,000 for con- tinuing contract investigational service, $174,015. DIVISION OF CHILD WELFARE Administration: For administrative expenses, including placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $75, and all office and sundry expenses, $6,175, 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 discretion, 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, including white girls committed to the National Training School for Girls, and for board and care of all children accepted by said Board for care, as author- ized by the Act to give additional powers to the Board of Public Welfare (Public Law 397), approved January 12, 1942, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $2,500 each to institutions under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the Board, $320,315: Provided, That not more than $1,260 of this appropriation shall be available for continuous maintenance of three foster homes for temporary or emergency board and care of nondelinquent children. For the maintenance, under the jurisdiction of the Board of Public Welfare, of a suitable place in a building entirely separate [56 STAT. 442

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