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5 USC 835 note.
Industrial Home School for Colored Girls.
66 Stat. 382.
64 Stat. 359; 65 Stat. 163.
PUBLIC LAW 173-JULY 31, 1953
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ficiaries under this appropriation; including repair and upkeep of building; $4,610,000: 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 (63 Stat. 166), but not to exceed $900 for any one 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 be held at Gallinger Hospital; subsistence in lieu of salary for the full time employment of persons for the purpose of securing training and experience in their future vocation; 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; $3,465,000: Provided, That hereafter the National Training School for Girls shall be known as the Industrial Home School for Colored Girls. Capital outlay, protective institutions: For construction of permanent improvements to the Industrial Home School for Colored Children; furnishing and equipping the new infirmary at the Home for Aged and Infirm and the new Industrial Home School; construction of a new Industrial Home School for Colored Children near Laurel, Maryland, including utility services and improvements to grounds; $4,024,000, of which $78,750, together with the appropriation of $86,000 for plans and specifications for an Industrial Home School for Colored Girls contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1953, shall be available for the use of the Municipal Architect and shall be credited to the appropriation account "Office of Municipal Architect, Construction Services", and $2,800,000 shall not become available for expenditure until July 1, 1954. The appropriations for "Capital outlay, protective institutions", contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Acts, 1951 and 1952, shall be available for constructing such additional sewage disposal and treatment facilities at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, as may be necessary to provide for sewage from the District Training School and the Children's Center, under agreements to be entered into between the Commissioners and the Secretary of the Army. Saint Elizabeths Hospital: For support of indigent insane, $9,480,000.
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