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obligatory duties in respect of the following matters, subject to the cost
being kept within approved estimates and to the final approval of the
accounts by the Board of Control:
1. Ascertaining the numbers of, supervising and dealing with
defectives.
2. Provision of accommodation for, and maintenance of, defectives
when sent under Orders to Certified Institutions.
3. Provision for Guardianship of defectives when placed under
Guardianship by Orders.
The grant under the above headings has to be limited in each
financial year to the amount allocated to the Borough by the Board of
Control. The amount allocated for the 9 months of the year from the
1st April to the 31st December, 1914, except so far as relates to
" Criminal " Defectives, was £353.
21.—The amount of the Government contribution in "criminal"
cases is, in general, the same as in other eases. Special arrangements
have been approved by the Treasury in cases where a defective is
ordered by the Secretary of State to be transferred from a Prison or
other Establishment to a Certified Institution.
Where a Court before which a defective is found guilty on a
criminal charge makes an Order sending the defective to an Institution
or placing him under guardianship, the Board of Control meets the
cost of the defective's conveyance and of his maintenance for the first
three months, after which the charges are shared equally by the Government
and the Local Authority.

of which the Government will bear one half, leaving the balance to be
borne by the Borough Fund.
F. W. M. KING,
Chairman.
May, 1915.