Chapter 122. To amend and reenact an Act for the establishment of a probation system for the District of Columbia
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CHAP. 122.— An Act To amend and reenact an Act for the establishment of a probation system for the District of Columbia. March 4, 1919.[[H. R. 10891](/us/bill/65/hr/10891).][[Public, No. 345](/us/65/pl/345).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia.Probation system.Vol. 36, p. 864, amended. That an Act for the establishment of a probation system for the District of Columbia, approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, be amended and reenacted by striking out of section one of said Act the following words:
“and one assistant probation officer at a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum,” and in lieu thereof insert the following: “and two assistant probation officers at a salary of $1,200 each, one of which assistant probation officers shall serve for one year only, and one stenographer and typist at a salary of $1,200 per annum, who shall serve one year only,” so that said section one of said Act when so amended shall read: 1325 " “That the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in generalProbation officers authorized. term may appoint one probation officer, at a salary of S 1,800 per annum, and as many volunteer assistant probation officers, male or female, as occasion may require; and that the police court of the District of Columbia may appoint one chief probation officer at a salary of $1,500 per annum, and two assistant probation officersAdditional for one year. at a salary of $1,200 each, one of which assistant probation officers shall serve for one year only, and one stenographer and typist at a salary of $1,200 per annum, who shall serve for one year only, and as many volunteer assistant probation officers, male or female, as occasion may require.
“All such probation officers and assistants shall be appointed forAppointment. a term of two years, with the exception of one assistant probation officer and one stenographer and typist, who shall be appointed for one year only, and may be removed by the respective courtsVolunteer assistants. appointing them. All such volunteer probation officers shall serve without compensation, and shall have such powers and perform such duties as may be assigned to them by said courts.” That section five of said Act be amended by striking out of saidAllowances.Vol. 37, p. 865, amended. section the words “five thousand dollars” and by inserting in lieu thereof the words “eight thousand dollars,” so that said section when so amended shall read:
“Sec. 5. That the chief probation officer of each court shall beAllowances, etc., to probation officers, increased. entitled, for himself and his assistants, to a room in the building occupied by that court, and all necessary stationery and supplies for the transaction of the business of his office; and all the probation officers except volunteer officers shall be entitled to their necessary expenses in performing the duties of their office, under the direction of the court, the amount of the expense for such stationery, supplies, and expenses to be fixed and allowed by the court upon proper vouchers submitted to it by the probation officers, and accounts duly verified by their oaths; and for the purpose of this Act there is hereby appropriated the sum of 88,000, one half to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
” " Approved, March 4, 1919.