PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 544 -JULY 9, 1946 Pot, p .688 . Visits to wards out- side D. C., Va., and Md. Receiving home, construction. 57 Stat. 374 . 29 U. . C., Supp. V, §§ 31-41 . 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, $8,000. 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, 1947, $400,000. 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; $110,094. FAMILY WELFARE SERVICE Operating expenses, child care: For all expenses necessary 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 investiga- tion or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $6,000 each to institutions under sectarian con- trol, not more than $3,360 for continuous maintenance of 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; print- ing and binding; and rental, repair, and upkeep of building; $723,260: 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 Mary- land, and a ward placed outside said District and the States of Vir- ginia 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 an additional amount for the con- struction of a receiving home and classification center in parcel 141/68, $50,000. Public assistance and children's services: 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 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); aid to depend- ent children in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June 14, 512 [60 STAT.
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