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 162 Patient rates.

PUBLIC LAW 106—AUG. 3. 1951

[65 STAT.

$600,000: Provided, That the in-patient rate shall not exceed $9 per diem and the out-patient rate shall not exceed $2 per visit. 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, $300,000: Provided, That the in-patient rate shall not exceed $9 per diem and the out-patient rate shall not exceed $2 per visit. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS Operating expenses: For expenses necessary for the Department of Corrections, including subsistence of interns; compensation of consulting physicians, dentists, and other specialists at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; attendance of guards at pistol and rifle matches; uniforms and other distinctive wearing apparel necessary for employees in the performance of their official duties; rental of motion picture films; repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; purchase of motorbusses; support, maintenance, and transportation of prisoners transferred from the District of Columbia; interment or transporting the remains of deceased prisoners to their relatives or frienas in the United States; electrocutions; identifying, pursuing, recapturing (including rewards therefor), and returning to institutions, escaped inmates and parole and conditional-release violators; and returning released prioners to their residences, or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Director, and the furnishing of suitable clothing, and in the discretion of the Director, an amount of money not to exceed $30, regardless of length of sentence, $3,678,000. Capital outlay: For completing the construction of operational control center building at the Reformatory, including equipment and roadways, and completing the fencing of portions of the Reformatory, $101,000, to remain available until expended. PUBLIC WELFARE For expenses necessary for the general administration of public welfare in the District of Columbia, including contract investigational services; $97,500. Agency services: For 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 rehabilitation for purposes of employment of indigent residents of the District of Columbia, to be expended under rules and regulations prescribed by the Commissioners or their designated agent or agency; vocational rehabilitation of disabled residents; aid to dependent children; assistance against old-age want; aid for needy blind persons; services for children in their own homes; maintenance pending transportation, and transportation, of indigent persons, including veterans and their families; deportation of nonresident insane persons, including persons held in the psychopathic ward of the Gallinger Municipal Hospital; burial of indigent residents of the District of Columbia; for placing 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, 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 children pending inves-

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