The Mayor of the District of Columbia is authorized to visit, investigate the management of, and have a report of the receipts and expenditures of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, the Children's Hospital, Saint Ann's Infant Asylum, National Association for Colored Women and Children, Women's Christian Association, Little Sisters of the Poor, and the German Orphan Asylum, so long as they respectively accept money appropriated by Congress for their aid.
D.C. Code § 44-710
Public welfare supervision, board of public welfare, institutions supported by congressional appropriations, see § 4-111. .