PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 281-JULY 15, 1939 Contingent ex- penses. Probation system. For contingent expenses, including books, law books, books of reference, fuel, light, telephone, lodging and meals for jurors, and for deputy United States marshals while in attendance upon jurors, when ordered by the court; fixtures, repairs to furniture, building and building equipment, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $1,000. MISCELLANEOUS Probation system: For personal services, $16,880; contingent expenses, $800, in all, $17,680. PUBLIC WELFARE BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE Salaries;contraetin- For personal services, including the assistant director of public vesigational services welfare who shall also be coordinator of child welfare services, and including not to exceed $7,250 for contract investigational services, . US. 3709. without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 41iU.S .C .I5. U. S. C . 5), $144,530. DIVISION OF CHILD WELFARE Administration. Restriction on ex- penditures. Board and care of children. Temporary care pending investigation, etc. Receiving home for children under eight- een. Advances to direc- tor. Placing and visiting children. Administration: For administrative expenses, including placing and visiting children, city directory, purchase of books of reference and periodicals not exceeding $50, and all office and sundry expenses, $5,000, and no part of the money herein appropriated 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 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 that said Board shall have power, upon proper showing, in its discretion, to discharge from guardianship any child committed to its care. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship of said Board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, with authority to pay not more than $2,500 each to institutions under sectarian control and not more than $400 for burial of children dying while under charge of the Board, $290,000. For the maintenance, under the 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 chil- dren under eighteen years of age arrested by the police on charge of offense against any laws in force in the District of Columbia, or com- mitted to the guardianship of the Board, or held as witness, or held temporarily, or pending hearing, or otherwise, including transporta- tion, food, clothing, medicine, and medicinal supplies, rental, repair and upkeep of buildings, fuel, gas, electricity, ice, supplies, and equip- ment, and other necessary expenses, including not to exceed $20,920 for personal services, $39,800. The disbursing officer of the District of Columbia is authorized to advance to the director of public welfare, upon requisitions previously approved by the auditor of the District of Columbia and upon such security as may be required of said director by the Commissioners, sums of money not to exceed $400 at any one time, to be used for expenses in placing and visiting children, traveling on official busi- ness of the Board, and for office and sundry expenses, all such expend- itures to be accounted for to the accounting officers of the District of Columbia within one month on itemized vouchers properly approved. 1024 [53 STAT.
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