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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 789. 1900. 565 direction and control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. The board shall make all needful rules and regulations which may be p(roper for the government and control of said schools, and sha l ma e annual report to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who shall transmit the same to Congress, of the condition and operations of said schools, and the sanitary and structural condition of all buildings in use as well as those in course of construction, with recommendations as respects needed changes. The board shall have power to appoint one superintendent for all segyelgfiggégsdghgt the dpublic schools of the District of Columbia, two assistant superin—- w’ ’ ' ten ents, one of whom, under the direction of the superintendent, shall have charge of schools for colored children; a secretary, and three clerks, and to remove said officers at its pleasure, and shall also have power to employ and remove all teachers, officers, and other employees connected with the public schools not already specified: Provided, That P'°”“°· the graduates of the normal schools shall have preference in all cases mE{Y,{§’§§§f§,,‘§u§2§g when appointments of teachers for the grade schools are to be made. °°*°°°h°”· The superintendent shall annually submit to the board for its approval T°x'*b°°k¤ the course of studies and list of text-books and other apparatus to be used in said schools. _ The board shall annually transmit to the Commissioners of the Dis- m§§,§,“§Qq§';t**e”g_°”“ trict of Columbia an estimate in detail of the amount of money required. for the public schools for the ensuing year, and said Commissioners shall inc ude the same in their annua estimate of appropriations for the District of Columbia with such recommendations as they may deem ro er. P Clllie foregoing provisions under the head of "Public schools” shall E“°°*· take effect on the first day of July, nineteen hundred, and all Acts and R°P°“· parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Fon ormcmnsc For seven members of the board of education, at five B““"*°'· hundred dollars each, three thousand five hundred dollars, not more than one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars of which shall be used during the first half of the iiscal year; one superintendent of public schools, four thousand dollars; two assistant superintendents, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one secretary, one thousand r eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; and one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, eighteen thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Fon TEAGHERSZ For one thousand two hundred and twenty-four T°‘°h°"· teachers, to be assigned as follows: For director of high schools, two thousand five hundred dollars; For eleven supervisin principals, at two thousand dollars each; For five principals of igh schools, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; . For principal of White Normal School, and principlal of Colored Normal School, at one thousand six hundred dollars eac ; ' For director of primary instruction, director of manual training three heads of departments of high schools, head of high school manual training shop, and two grammar school principals, eight in all, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; For five principals of buildings, at one thousand three hundred dollars each- ` For director of music, two directors of drawing, director of physical culture, director of manual training, first assistant teacher of manual training, two normal training teachers, twelve high school teachers, and ten principals of buildings, thirty in all, at one thousand two hundred dollars eac ; _ _ For director of primary work, high school teacher, and principal of building, three in all, at one thousand one hundred dollars each;