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 986 SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Cus. 341,342. 1925. Company; thence north fifty degrees forty-one minutes fifteen seconds west seventy feet to a concrete monument, being a corner common to the land of the National Tube Company and the tract as now being described; thence north fifty-two degrees twenty-six minutes fifteen seconds west twenty and eighty one-hundredths feet to a stone monument, being the point of beginnin, containing one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six and four oneiundredths square feet: Provided, That such sale shall be made on such terms and conditions as will protect the uses of the Government to property adjacent thereto as to light and other easements. Approved, February 26, 1925. F°°'{‘§’§&ZEZi1°°°‘ CHAP. 342.-As Act To authorize a ave-yen banding pmgmm rm- the public school system of the District of Columbia which shall provide school buildings adequate in size and facilities to make possible an eliicient system of public education in the District of Columbia. , . C _ Be it enacted by the Senate amt House of Representatives of the Bt1|;iilgt;·;°iF(g¤%§¤ United States of America in Uangress assembled, That it is the K pvurpose of this Act, which shall hereafter be known as the Fiveear School Building Program Act, to provide a sufficient number m%¤¤¤¤¤ 0* ¤¤**·¤¤· of school buildings to make it possible: To abandon all portables; ` to eliminate the use of rented buildings; to abandon the use of imdesirable rooms; to reduce elementary school classes to a standard of not more than forty pupils r class; to rovide a five-hour day of instruction for elementary scbeool pu ils, thereby eliminating part time classes; to abandon all school buildings recommended for immediate or early abandonment in 1908; to abandon other school buildings which have become unfit for further use since 1908; to provide a full day of instruction for high school pupils thereby eliminating the " double shift ” program in the high schools; to provide for the annual increase in enrollment of pupils during said five·year period; and in general, to provide in the District of Columbia a pr am of schoolhouse construction which shall exemplify the best in s?:brool— house planning, schoolhouse construction and educational acc0mmo— ' dations. E’°"”°°°" “°"°°‘“· ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS L“‘"°"°“°°‘*“‘°“# Sec. 2. The following items for the purchase of land for schools ygrouu, and h _ _ ggihi§¤r¤¤¤g ¤f ¤¤i1<1i sites and school playgrounds and for the construction of buildings ' for elementary schoo s are authorized in the: _ rmsrr mvisiorz "”"”""‘°“‘ For the erection of an eight-room extensible building, including a combination gymnasium and assembly hall, on a site on Calvert Street now owned by the District of Columbia. For the purchase of land adjoining or in the vicinity of the site on Grant Road now owned by the istrict of Columbia. For the erection of an eight-room extensible building, including a combination g nasium and assembly hall, on a site on Grant Road now owngnby the District of Columbia. For the purchase of a site on which to locate a new eight-room school building in Potomac Heights to replace the one-room building on Conduit Road. For the erection of a four-room extensible building on the site to be purchased in Potomac Heights.