314 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 279-JUNE 29, 1949 [63 STAT. VD.; SC Ci S, . 277); assistance against old-age want, as authorized by law; aid for 765. needy blind persons, as authorized by law; services for children in their own homes; distribution of surplus commodities and relief milk to public and charitable institutions; $131,871 for necessary expenses, including personal services without regard to the Classification Act 42 Stat. 1488 . of 1923, as amended, for the carrying out, under regulations to be Supp. 1, §662 et seq. prescribed by the Commissioners of a "penny milk" program for the PJt pn972i milk" school children of the District, including the purchase and distribution program. of milk under agreement with the United States Department of Agri- culture; maintenance pending transportation, and transportation, of indigent nonresident persons; transportation of other indigent persons, including veterans and their families; deportation of nonresident insane persons, as provided by law, 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 investigation or while being trans- ferred from place to place, with authority to pay for the care of children in institutions under sectarian control; for continuous main- tenance of foster homes for temporary or emergency board and care of nondelinquent children; care and maintenance of women and chil- dren under contracts to be made by the Board of Public Welfare and approved by the Commissioners with the Florence Crittenton Home Saint Ann's Infant Asylum and Maternity Hospital, the House of Mercy, and other institutions caring for unmarried mothers; and for burial of children dying while beneficiaries under this appropriation; C o Ie o t I o n s including repair and upkeep of building; $3,849,790: Provided, That collections from the milk program shall be paid to the collector of taxes, District of Columbia, for deposit in the Treasury of the United States isits to wards out- to the credit of the District: Provided further, That no part of this Md. appropriation shall be used for the purpose of visiting any ward of the Board of Public Welfare placed outside of 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 guardian- sowed a rvtelo y ship anychild committed to its care: Providedfurtuher,Thatemployees using privately owned automobiles for the deportation of nonresident insane, the transportation of indigent persons, or the placing of children may be reimbursed as authorized by section 3 of the Act of Ap!a., . 73 . August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 806), but not to exceed $900 for any one individual. Operating expenses, protective institutions: For expenses necessary for the operation of the Industrial Home School, the Industrial Home School for Colored Children, the National Training School for Girls, the Municipal Lodging House, the Home for the Aged and Infirm, the District Training School; Temporary Home for Former Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines; 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; including subsistence of interns; compensation of consulting physicians and veterinarians at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; repairs and
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