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58 STAT.] 78TH CONG., 2D SESS.-CHS. 174, 175-APR. 22, 1944 SEC. 7. The Commissioners may refuse to reissue or may revoke or suspend the license of any child-placing agency after full hearing on proof of violation of any provisions of this Act or the rules and regulations promulgated hereunder. Before any license shall be suspended or revoked the holder thereof shall have notice in writing of the charge or charges and shall, at the date and place specified in said notice, which shall be at least five days after the service thereof, be given a hearing by said Commissioners, or their designated agents, with a full opportunity to produce testimony in his, her, or its behalf. Any licensee whose license has been suspended or revoked may, after the expiration of ninety days, on application to the said Commissioners, have the same reinstated or reissued upon satisfactory proof that the disqualification has ceased. SEC. 8 . Any person firm, corporation, association, or public agency who conducts a child-placing agency without a license as provided for in this Act or who violates any of the provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than $300 or imprisoned for not more than ninety days, or both. Prosecution for violations of this Act shall be upon information in the criminal division of the municipal court of the District of Columbia by the corporation counsel of the District of Columbia. SEC. 9. The Board of Public Welfare is authorized to make such investigations and inspections as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. SEO. 10. That sections 173, and 402 to 411, both inclusive, of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia, approved March 3, 1901, are hereby repealed. SEC. 11 . This Act shall become effective four months after date of the approval of this Act, except section 3 hereof, which shall become effective on the date of the approval of this Act. Approved April 22, 1944. [CHAPTER 175] AN ACT Making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I-TREASURY DEPARTMENT That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945, namely: OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Salaries: Secretary of the Treasury, Under Secretary of the Treasury, Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, two Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, and other personal services in the District of Columbia, including the temporary employment of experts, $412,500: Provided, That no part of the money appropriated by this title shall be used to pay the salaries of more than eighteen messen- gers assigned to duty in the Office of the Secretary. Reimbursement to District of Columbia, benefit payments to White House Police and Secret Service forces: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to reimburse the District of Columbia on a monthly basis for benefit payments made from the revenues of the District Revocation or sus- pension of license. Penalty. Prosecution. Investigations by Board of Public Wel- fare. Repeals. 31 Stat. 1218 , 1253, 1254. D. c . Code 36-101 to § 36-111. Effective dates. April 22, 1944 [H. R. 41331 [Public Law 2931 Treasury and Post Office Departments Appropriation Act, 1945. Treasury Depart- ment Appropriation Act, 1945. Post, pp. 871, 876. Messengers, limita- tion. Reimbursement to D. C . for certain bene- fit payments.