Evening star., 1900-10-09
HOLDSITSREGULARMEETlN
BOARD OF CHILDREN's GUARDIANS
IN BUSINESS SESSION.
Showing In Monthly Reports Of the
Agents-ReappOintm Certificates
Fned-Lexislative Committee.

The board OF children's guardians held
its regular monthly meeting Saturday even
ing, at which time Mrs. Lucy S. Doolittle.
president; B. Pickman Mann, secretary,
and John f. Cook, VIM. j. Miller and Jas.
B. T. Tupper, members, with John w.
Douglass agent, were present. DR.. NJ d.
Peck sent written excuse for his absence
because of continued illness.
A letter received from Mr.. w H. H. Hart
proprietor of the Hart Farm School, in
formed the board of the establishment of a
Junior Republic among the boys at that
institution. BY a communication from the
District Commissioners in response to a re-
quest for an official opinion of the attorney
for the District, the board was informed
that it had the right to control the moneys
coming into its possession to the credit
Of wards of the board.
AT the October meeting the certificate of
reappontment of B. Pickman Manu. Mrs.
Lucy 5. DooHttle and Louis Stern. for three
years, was laid before the board. A COM
mittee, consisting of VIM. j. Miller. Mrs
Lucy s. Doolittle. Mrs. M. l.. d. Macfar-
land, John f. Cook and j. B. T. Tupper
was empowered to represent the board in
matters of legislation desired. The secre-
tary was instructed to furnish the board Of
charities with an itemiZed statement of the
subjects contemplated in the estimates for
administrative expenditures of the board
for the fiscal year 1902. Four hundred ex-
IRA copies OF tne recently submitted annual
report OF the board We're ordered to be
printed. Authority was given to secure ad-
ditional room for the office of the board.
1t was ordered that provision should be
made in indenture contracts for the pay
| ment of funeral expenses by the foster par
ents in case any ward die in foster home
after being there two years. These con-
tracts are TO be amended also by substi-
tutfng In them the title of the board of
charities for the title of the superintendent
of charities Notice was received that the
Orphans Court had sanctioned an adoption
| to which the board had given it's consent
previously.
Monthly Reports.
The monthly reports of the agents showed
| that sixteen children had been committed
permanently and nine temporarily to the
| custody Of the board during September. and
| three had been held temporarily Under gen.
| eral authority. For the first quarter of
| the present fiscal year ffty-seven have
been committed permanently, making av-
| erage rate of 228 for this year, as COM
| pared with 126 for the preceding year. The
whole number of permanent wards is now
| GIT, Of whom 145 in institutions at
| be ard, ia in boarding homes. eight in free
| institutions, and 377 In free homes. Thirty
! three are caring for themselves. October
| l the number on the temporary rolls
| twelve. The physicians report showed fif-
| ty-one visits to sixteen children and the
| death Of two infants in September.
| Matters concerning the relations of indi-
vidual wards and the presentation of bills
| for services and supplies We're considered.
| Most OF the details in regard to the wards
| by the executive committee of five members
! whose meetings are separate. and whose
! conclusions are, as rule, accepted by the
| board.