An Act to provide that children be committed to the Board of Public Welfare in lieu of being committed to the National Training School for Girls; that the property and personnel of the National Training School for Girls be available for the care of children committed to or accepted by the Board of Public Welfare; and for other purposes
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PUBLIC LAW 105—AUG. 3, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
Public Law 105 
CHAPTER 291 
August 3, 1951 
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To provide that children be committed to the Board of Public Welfare in lieu of 
being committed to the National Training School for Girls; that the property 
and personnel of the National Training School for Girls be available for the 
care of children committed to or accepted by the Board of Public Welfare; and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
scSfoVfoToiTis^'"'"^ United States of America in Congress assembled, That no girl shall 
moment'*'*'" °" ^'""" ^^ Committed to the National Training School for Girls after the 
enactment of this Act. Any girl who, but for the provisions of this 
Act, would be subject to commitment to such school shall be subject 
to commitment to the Board of Public Welfare (hereinafter called 
the "Board"). Girls committed to such school prior to the enactment 
of this Act shall remain subject to the supervision and care of the 
Board for the periods of their commitments, but may be removed by 
it to any other place of detention available to it. The Board is author-
ized to parole or discharge any girl committed to it or subject to its 
supervision as provided in this section. In the supervision and care 
of any such girl the Board is authorized, in its discretion, to use any 
public or private agency or institution, or private family home, either 
without expense or at a fixed rate of board. 
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^^^- 2. The buildings, grounds, and equipment of the National 
Training School for Girls shall be' available for the care and training 
of children committed to the Board or received and accepted by it 
for care under the authority of this or any other Act. Appropriations 
heretofore or hereafter made for the National Training School for 
Girls shall be available for the care and training of such children. 
SEC. 3. Section 8 of the Act entitled "An Act revising and amend-
ing the various Acts establishing and relating to the Reform School 
of the District of Columbia", approved May 3, 1876, as applicable 
to the Reform School for Girls of the District of Columbia (subse-
quently designated the National Training School for Girls) (31 Stat. 
809; D. C. Code, sec. 32-908), as amended— 
(1) by striking out "Reform School for Girls", wherever ap-
pearing therein, and inserting in lieu thereof "Board of Public 
Welfare"; 
(2) by striking out "to remain until she arrives at the age of 
twenty-one years unless sooner discharged by the board of trus-
tees"; and 
(3) by adding at the end thereof the following: "Girls com-
mitted to the Board of Public Welfare may be committed for 
such periods as the courts mav deem proper, subject to earlier 
discharge by the Board of Public Welfare, but no girl shall be 
so committed for a period extending beyond her twenty-first 
birthday." 
SEC. 4. Clause (2) of section 14 of the Act entitled "An Act to 
create a juvenile court in and for the District of Columbia", approved 
March 19, 1906, is amended— 
(1) by striking out the words "National Training School for 
Girls or the"; and 
(2) by striking out the word "schools" and inserting in lieu 
thereof the word "school". 
Approved August 3, 1951. 
52 Stat. 600. 
D. C.Code §11-915.