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65 STAT.]

PUBLIC LAW 106—AUG. 3, 1951

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tigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay for the care of children in institutions under sectarian control; for continuous maintenance of foster homes for temporary or emergency board and care of nondelinquent children; care and maintenance of women and children 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; including repair and upkeep of building; $4,554,000; 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 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 guardianship any child committed to its care: Provided further, That employees 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 the Act of June 9, 1949 (Public Law 92), but not to exceed $900 for any one 63 Stat. 166. 5 U.S.C. §835note. individual. Operating expenses, protective institutions: For expenses necessary for the operation of protective institutions, including the 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, and male witnesses eighteen years of age or over shall fc^ held at Gallinger Hospital; including subsistence of interns; compensation of consulting physicians and veterinarians at rates to be fixed by the Commissioners; repairs and improvements to buildings and grounds; securing suitable homes for paroled or discharged children; and care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Public Welfare with the Attorney General at a rate of not to exceed the actual cost for each boy so committed; purchase of passenger motor vehicles; $2,943,000: Provided, Th&t no part of this appropriation shall be used for the o f S? " " " °" "'^ maintenance of white girls in the National Training School for Girls. Capital outlay, protective institutions: For continuing construction of an infirmary building and a separate laundry building at the Home for Aged and Infirm, including improvement of grounds; for completing construction of new heating plant, sewage-disposal plant, water supply and distribution system, sewers, and electrical-distribution system, at the District Training School; for construction of new buildings for the Industrial Home School; for an additional amount for a new central kitchen at the Industrial Home School for Colored Children, including improvement of grounds, and reimbursement to the United States of funds advanced in accordance with section 501 of the Act of October 3, 1944 (58 Stat. 791); to remain so U.S.C. app. available until expended, $4,594,000, of which $1,344,000 shall not ^^^^' become available for expenditure until July 1, 1952; and the limits of cost contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act of 1951 for the following projects are increased to the following amounts: ^4 Stat. ase.