Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 29.djvu/433

 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 419. 1896 403 high-school building of the seventh and eighth divisions, and of the Business High School (the janitor in which shall also be an engineer), at one thousand two hundred dollars each; Of the Franklin and Stevens buildings, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; Of the Peabody building, nine hundred dollars; Of the Curtis, Dennison, Force, Gales, Garnet, Grant, Henry, Seaton, Su1nner,Wallach, and Webster buildings, at nine hundred dollars each; Of the Lincoln and Mott buildings, at eight hundred dollars each; Of the Abbott, Berrett, John F. Cook, and Randall buildings, at seven hundred dollars each; Of the Adams. Addison, Ambush, Amidon, Anthony, Bowen, Arthur, Banneker, Bell, Blair, Blake, Bradley, Brent, Briggs, Buchanan, Carberry, Corcoran, Cranch, Fillmore, Garrison, Giddings, Harrison, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Lenox, Logan, McCormick, Madison, Magruder, Maury, Monroe, Morse, Patterson, Phelps, Pierce, Phillips, Polk, Slater, Smallwood, Taylor, Towers, Twining, Tyler, Van Buren, Weightman, Wormley, and Wilson buildings, and the six new eight-room buildings, fifty-three in all, at five hundred dollars each; Of the Garfield, Hillsdale, Lovejoy, 'I‘hompson,Van Buren annex, and Woodbum buildings, at two hundred and fifty dollars each; Of the Bennings (white), Bennings (colored), Birney, High Street, Potomac, Threlkeld, and Congress Heights (Giesboro) buildings, at one hundred and sixty-five dollars each; For care of smaller buildings and rented rooms, including cooking and manual training schools, wherever located, at a rate not to exceed forty-eight dollars per annum for the care of each schoolroom, four thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars; i11 all, fifty-seven thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars. For rent of school buildings, and repair shop, thirteen thousand one Rufhundred dollars. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, R°P“*”· °*°· thirty-two thousand dollars. For the purchase of tools, machinery, material, and apparatus, to be T¤<>1¤. ccaused in connection with instruction in manual training, nine thousand dollars. For fuel, thirty-tive thousand dollars. Fw- For furniture for new school buildings and additions to buildings, as Fumitmfollows: Eighth division B, eight rooms, one thousand four hundred dollars; Tenley, Brightwood, Brookland, and Congress Heights, four rooms, at seven hundred dollars each, two thousand eight hundred dollars; Ivy City and Garfield, two rooms, each three hundred and fifty dollars, seven hundred dollars; in all, four thousand nine hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, including furniture, books, stationery, print- 0··¤¤¤:=•=¤* <¤r1>~·¤¤¤¤- ing, insurance, and other necessary items, twenty-eight thousand dollars. For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight mf *°° ¤¤¤¤°¤¤>¤k•. grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed ' by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, thirty-eight thousand dollars. _ _ For reconstructing and adding to the Wallach School building, B*¤m*¤€¤· twenty-two thousand dollars. . For one eight-room building and site, northeast, thirty-nine thousand dollars. For additional ground and reconstructing Anthony Bowen School building, thirty thousand dollars. For one four—room school building, Langdon, eight thousand dollars. A contract is hereby authorized for the construction of an eight-room school building, sixth division B, Giesboro, at a total cost not exceeding twenty-one thousand dollars; and the appropriation of nine thousand dollars heretofore made for a four-room building, sixth division B,