Any board or institution may use its petty cash fund for the payment of the traveling expenses of a paroled inmate to the place of his employment, and the expenses of the parole officer or other agent in traveling to and from the place where any paroled inmate, who has violated his parole, may be found, in order to bring about his return to the institution, as well as the payment of expenses incurred to secure the return of an escaped inmate.