Juvenile Delinquency: Commercial Child Adoption Practices. Hearing Before the Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency of the Committee on the Judiciary. United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 173, Investigation of Juvenile Delinquency in the United States; on S. 3021, a Bill to Amend Title 18, United States Code, to Make Unlawful Certain Practices in Connection with the Placing of Minor Children for Permanent Free Care Or for Adoption. May 16, 1956

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Page 2 - SEC. 2. For the purposes of this resolution, the committee, from February 1. 1967, to January 31, 1968, inclusive, is authorized (1) to make such expenditures as it deems advisable; (2) to employ, upon a temporary basis, technical, clerical, and other assistants and consultants : Provided, That the minority is authorized to select one person for appointment, and the person so selected shall be appointed and his compensation shall be so fixed that his gross rate shall not be less by more than...
Page 4 - Commerce" means commerce among the several States or with foreign nations, or in any Territory of the United States or in the District of Columbia, or between any such Territory and another, or between any such Territory and any State or foreign nation, or between the District of Columbia and any State or Territory or foreign nation. "Corporation...
Page 2 - Administration, to utilize the reimbursable services, information, facilities, and personnel of any of the departments or agencies of the Government.
Page 5 - That any person who shall knowingly persuade, induce, entice, or coerce, or cause to be persuaded, induced, enticed, or coerced, or aid or assist In persuading, inducing, enticing, or coercing any woman or girl to go from one place to another in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any territory or the District of Columbia, for the purpose of prostitution...
Page 6 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States •of America in Congress assembled, That part I of title 18 of the United States Code...
Page 106 - Do you solemnly swear that the testimony that you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God ? Mr.
Page 3 - ... to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable. The cost of stenographic services to report such hearings shall not be in excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee, which shall not exceed $30,000, shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the committee or the chairman of any duly authorized subcommittee thereof.
Page 2 - RESOLUTION Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized...
Page 19 - DC, then and there to testify what you may know relative to the subject matters under consideration by said committee.
Page 19 - HEREOF FAIL NOT, as you will answer your default under the pains and penalties in such cases made and provided. To JN Tierney, US Marshal by Herbert J.

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