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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SESS. II. Ca. 314. 1929 . For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades and for the necessary expenses of purchase, distribution, and pres ervation of said textboo ks and s upplies, includin g necess ary labor not to exceed $1,000, $125,000, to be immediately available Provided, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, in their discretion, are authorized to exchange any badly damaged book for a new one, the new one to be similar in text to the old one when it was new. For maintenance of kindergartens, including not to exceed $3,000 for furnishing and equipping three additional kindergartens, $10,000. For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, $3,000. The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months in which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made to teachers assigned to the work of instruction in nature study and school gardens. For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, and for extending the equipment and for the maintenance of laboratories of the departments of physics, chemistry, biology, and general science in the several high and junior high schools and normal schools, and for the installation of the same, $16 .000, to be immediately available. The children of officers and men of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, and children of other employees of the United States stationed outside the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the p ublic sc hools wi thout pa yment of tuition. Not to exceed $100,000 of the unexpended balances of appropria- tions for buildings and grounds, public schools, contained in the Dis tr ict of Columbia appropriation Acts fiscal years 192 6, 1927, and 1928, is hereby made available until Ju ne 30, 1930, for the improveme nt of grou nds surrou nding publ ic-school buildings, constructed under appropriations for the fiscal year 1928 and prior fiscal years, such work to be performed by day labor or otherwise in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. For repairs and improvements to school buildings, repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, installation and repair of electric lighting equipment, and installation of sanit ary drin king fou ntai ns, and main tena nce of moto r tr ucks , including not to exceed $1,700 for purchase of two dump trucks, including the exchange of one dump truck, $450,000. For r ent of school bu ildi ngs and grou nds, sto rage and sto ck rooms, $8,000. For purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment, for school yards for the purposes of play of pupils, $10,000 : Provid ed, That suc h pl aygr ound s sh all be k ept open for pla y pu rpos es in accordance with the schedule maintained for playgrounds under the jurisdiction of the playground department. BUILDINGS AND GROU NDS Not to exceed $20,000 of the unexpended balance of funds made available by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929 for the construction of a combined gymnasium and assembly hall for the Wheatley School is hereby made available for the comp leti on of the ei ght- room add itio n and co mbin atio n gymn asiu m and as semb ly h all at the Morgan Sc hool. For the construction of a combination gymnasium and assembly hall at the Joh n Eaton School, in accor dance wi th the o riginal plans for the construction of said building, $50,000. For the erection of a junior high school building on a site being purchased for that purpose in the Reno section, in accordance with 1279 Supplies to pupils . Proviso. Changes authorized . Kindergartens. School gardens. Nature stu dy, etc ., teachers. Supp lies for physi cs, etc ., depa rtments. Children of Army, Navy, etc ., admitted fre e. Improving grounds of new buildings. Unexpend ed bal- ances available. Vol . 43, p. 1233,1320 ; Vol . 44, pp. 435, 1315. Repairs, etc ., to buildings. Rent. Scho ol y ards play - grounds . Proviso. Use, etc. Buildings and Grounds. Wheatley. Balance for, available for Morgan School . Ante, p. 663. Jo hn Eaton. Addition. Reno. Erection of junior high.

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