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 sixrY.F1RsT coimiznss. sm. III. cu. 192. 1911. 987 For repairs and improvements to school buildin and ounds and R°P*'”· °'°- for repairing and renewing heating, plaumbing, an?ventildting apparatus, sevently thousand ollars, to immediately available. ` For specia repairs to and changes in plumbing in existing school €,§‘“*¤b*¤¤’°P°*'*- buildings, twenty-five thousand dollars. A detailed statement shall ` be submitted to Congress of the expenditure of the foregoing sum, and for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve estimates shall be submitted in detail as to the particular school buildings requiring unusual repairs of and changes in plumbing. For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and pg§gg¤··1¤¤*¤*¤¤¤¤- books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in ` manual training, and for incidental expenses connected therewith, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. d ger fuel, gas, and electric light and power, eighty-five thousand *""°l·“¢h“·°*°· o ars. · For furniture, including also clocks, pianos, and window shades for ruma¤1e,e¢¢. new school buildings, ad itions to buildings, kindergartens, and also tools and furnishings for manual-training, cooking, and sewing schools, as follows: One eight-room building on Farragut Street northwest two thousand dollars; one twelve-room building at Eighth and 'Il Streets northwest, three thousand dollars; one eight-room building at Randle I·Iighlands, two thousand dollars; one six—room building at Ivy City, one thousand five hundred dollars; one six—room manualtrainu§ building on site of High Street School, one thousand five hundredollars; one six-room manual-training building on ounds of Cardozo School, one thousand five hundred dollars; sixaiinderartens, two thousand dollars; two manual-trainini sho s, six hundred dollars; one sewing school, one hundred and fty dollars; and one cooking school, three hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand dollars, to be immediately available. For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, Gontingentexpenses. stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipment for highschool cadets, and other necessaryx items not otherwise provided fbr, including an allowance of three undred dollars each for livery of horse or arage of an automobile for the superintendent of schools, and for the superintendent of janitors, and including not exceeding one thousand c ollars for books, books of reference, and periodicals, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten rams. schools, at an average cost not to exceed three undred dollars each, one thousand dollars. For text-books and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight S¤Pv“¤• *° Pupilsgrades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made y 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, including one bookkee er and custodian of text—books and su plies, at one thousand two lllundred dollars, and one assistant, at sixlhundred dollars, sixty-eight thousand five hundred dollars: Promkied, That the board of education, in its {,’;g,j?figes discretion, is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other ' educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use. For purchase of United States flags, eight hundred dollars. ““g“· For equipment, grading, and improving six additional school play- *"“”"°‘“‘°" grounds, one thousand dollars. ` For maintenance and repairing thirty playgrounds now established, one thousand Eve hundred dollars. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, one thousand two hundred dollars.