Volume 75
Public Law 87–226
To amend the Act incorporating the Washington Home for Foundlings and to define the powers of said corporation.
Approved September 13, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act incorporating the Washington Home for Foundlings and to define the powers of said corporation.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act for
Washington Home for Foundlings, D.C.
Child-placing activities.
16 Stat. 92; 35 Stat. 838; 43 Stat. 794; 48 Stat. 353.
incorporating a hospital (or home) for foundlings in the city of Washington, approved April 22, 1870, and amended March 3, 1909, January 28, 1925, and February 20, 1934, be and the same is hereby amended by adding at the end of section 6 the following:
“Sec. 6A.
In carrying out its objects under sections 5 and 6 of this Act, this association shall have power to provide for the support and operation of a licensed child-placing agency under and subject to applicable laws and regulations of the District of Columbia in lieu of maintaining a hospital, home, or building for the reception and support of destitute and friendless children or for the care and treatment of foundlings, and to provide for the erection and maintenance of a separate building for the care and treatment of men, women, and children afflicted with cancer.”
Approved September 13, 1961.