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 SIXTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 198. 1908. 293 for the estimated increased enrollment that may be caused by the operation of the compulsory education law and for the purchase of all necessary articles an supplies to be used in the course of instruction which may be provided for atypical and ungraded classes. twenty-tive thousand dollars. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and MW"- for repairing and renewing heating and ventilating apparatus, seventy- five thousand dollars. For necessary repairs to and changes in plumbing in existing school *’“”°*’*“8 **1*****- buildings, fifty thousand dollars. A detai ed statement shall be submitted to Congress of the expenditure of the foregoin sum, and for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine estimates shag be submitted in detail as to the particular school buildings requiring unusual repairs of and changes in plumbing. For the purchase and re ir of tools, machinery, material, and books, T°°1”·°*°- and apparatus to be usedldn connection with instruction in manual training, and for incidental expenses connected therewith, twenty thousand dollars. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, ninety thousand dollars. "“°‘· °°°· For furniture and window shades for new school buildings, additions to buildings, kindergartens, manual training, cooking, and sew- _ ing schools, as follows: One four—room addition to Emery school building, eight hundred and seventyfive dollars; one six-room addition to Langdon school buildin, one thoumnd three hundred and twelve dollars; one four-room addition to Petworth school building, eight hundred and seventy;five dollars; one sixteemroom building to take the place of the Mott school building, three thousand five hundred dollars; one four~room addition to Gage school building, eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; one sixteen-room building in the " first division," ° three thousand five hundred dollars; one twelve-room building in the "eighth division," two thousand six hundred and twenty-tive dollars; two kindergartens, three hundred dollars; one manual training shop, two hundred dollars;- one cooking school, three hundred dollars; one sewing school, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, fourteen thousand eight undred and twelve dollars, to be immediately available. _ `or contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, °°“““"’“°°"°“‘“"· stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipments for high school cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including an allowance of three hundred dollars livery of horse or garage of an automobile for the superintendent, and mcluding not exceedin one thousand dollars for books, books of reference, and periodicads, forty~tive thousand dollars. _ For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten "‘“"°“· schools, at an average cost not to exceed two hundred and twenty-five dollars each, one thousand dollars. _ _ For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first S“"*"‘°” "" *’“""" eight 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 board of education of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said text-books and supplies, iucludin one bookkeeper and custodian of text-books and sup lies, at one thousand two hundred dollars, and one assistant, at six hundred dollars, sixty-five thousand dollars: 1’;··m·ided, That the board of education, in its discretion, Mw. is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational E"°"““€°*· publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use. _ For purchase of United States Bags, eight hundred dollars. F'“¥"· For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance 8q§,‘{,§‘,;,’e‘}},s_$“"‘e“ of school gardens, one thousand two hundred dollars. For extending the telephone system to one sixteen-room building in m}_`§‘§,§_"°““ ‘° “°" the ‘“ iirst division," one twelve-room buildingin the "eighth division,"