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 59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 209-JUNE 30, 1945 Medical charities: For care and treatment of indigent patients under contracts to be made by the Health Officer of the District of Columbia and approved by the Commissioners with institutions, as follows: Children's Hospital, $60,000; Central Dispensary and Emer- gency Hospital, $50,000; Eastern Dispensary and Casualty Hospital, $50,000; Washington Home for Incurables, $25,000; in all, $185,000. Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For general repairs, including labor and material to be expended under the direction of the Architect of the Capitol, $5,000. Freedmen's Hospital: For reimbursement to the United States for services rendered to the District of Columbia by Freedmen's Hospital, as specified under the head, "Freedmen's Hospital", in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1946, $406,700. 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; printing and binding; lawbooks, city directories, books of reference, and periodicals; and contract investigational services; $61,700. FAMILY WELFARE SERVICE Operating expenses, child care: For all expenses necessary for placing and visiting children; board and care of all children com- mitted to the guardianship of the Board of Public Welfare by the courts of the District, including 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 chil- dren pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $6,000 each to institu- tions under sectarian control, not more than $3,360 for continuous maintenance of eight 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 appro- priation; 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 chil- dren 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; $557,680: 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 guardianship any child committed to its care. Capital outlay, child care: For the construction of a receiving home and classification center for children in parcel 141/68 $285,000. 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 Commissioners, relief and reha- bilitation for purposes of employment of indigent residents of the 283 Post, p. 366. Pot, p. 643. Visits to wards out- side D. C., Va., and Md. Receiving home, construction.

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