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 PUBLIC LAWS-O-H 300-JUNE 28,1944 Visits to wards out- side D. C., Va., and Md. Site for new receiv- ing home. Pow, p. 860. Avallabilityoffunds rescinded. Stat. 520 . 67 Stat. 374. 29 U. S. C., Supp. , It a31-1. PUBLIC WELFARE OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR For all expenses necessary for the general administration of public welfare in the District of Columbia, including personal services; print- ing and binding; lawbooks, city directories, books of reference, and periodicals; and contract investigational services; $56,682. FAMILY WELFARE SERVICE Operating expenses, child care: For all expenses necessary for plac- ing and visiting children; board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of the Board of Public Welfare by the courts of the District, incruding white girls committed to the National Training School for Girls, and all children accepted by said Board for care, as authorized by law; temporary care of children pending investi- gation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $2,500 each to institutions under sectarian control, not more than $1,680 for continuous maintenance of four foster homes for temporary or emergency board and care of nondelinquent children, and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while beneficiaries under this appropriation; maintenance, under 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 eighteen years of age arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or committed to the guardianship of the Board, or held as witnesses, or held temporarily, or pending hearing, or otherwise; such expenses to include personal services; books of reference and periodicals; printing and binding; and rental, repair, and upkeep of building; $569,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation 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 said Board shall have power to discharge from guar- dianship any child committed to its care. Capital outlay, child care: For the acquisition of approximately three acres of land in parcel 141/68 as a site for a new receiving home and admission center for children, $30,000, and the availability for the expenditure of the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $121,300 for the construction of a new receiving home for children on land owned by the District of Columbia in square 2885, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, is hereby rescinded. Adult assistance: For all expenses necessary for certification of persons eligible for any public benefits which are or may become available as may be approved by the Commissioner, relief and rehabilitation for purposes of employment of indigent residents of the District of Columbia, to be expended under rules and regula- tions prescribed by the Commissioners; vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents of the District of Columbia in accordance with the provisions of the Act of July 6, 1943 (Public Law 113, Seventy- eighth Congress); assistance to mothers to enable them to provide home care for dependent children, as authorized by law; assistance against old-age want, as authorized by law; pensions for needy blind persons, as authorized by law; distribution of surplus com- 520 [58 STAT.

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