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 236 73d CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 93. JUNE 16, 1.933 . For utensils, material, and labor, for establishment and mainte- nance of school gardens, including rent of grounds, $2,000. etc ., The Board of E ducation is a uthorized 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 garde ns. Chi ld ren of Army , The children of officers and men of the United States Army, Navy, Nervy, etc ., admit ted and Marine Corps, and children of other employees of the United States stationed outside the District of Columbia shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition. For repairs an d improvement s to school b uildings, repa iring and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, installation and repair of electric equipment, and installation of sanitary drink- ing fountains, and maintenance of motor trucks, $325,000, of which amount $100,000 shall be immediately available. For the purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment, for school yards for the purposes of play of pupils, $7,500 : Provided, That such playgr ounds shall be ke pt ope n for play purpos es in accordanc e with the sch edule maintai ned for playg rounds under t he jurisdiction of the playground department. School gardens. Nature study, teachers. Repairs, etc ., to buildings. Equipment, etc ., school-yard play- grounds. Proviso. Use, etc. Buildings and grounds . Construction, etc ., designate d schools ; payable from balances for the Municipal Cen- ter. Vol. 46, p .1384; Vol. 47, p. 350. Logan. Post, p. 800. Reno, senior high. Contract s author- ized. Total; mediately available . Accounted as one fund. Provisos. Use for unauthorized proje cts f orbid den. Under-age instruc- tion prohibited. Webster School pro- visions . Build ing c ontra ct re - quirements. Right to reject bids. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS Not to exceed $570,000 of any unexpended balances of appro- priations contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1932 and 1933 for the Municipal Center is hereby reappropr iated and made available fo r the constru ction of publi c- school buildings as follows For the erection of an eight-room building on a site already appropriated for in the vicinity of the Logan School, $95,000 ; For beginning the construct ion of a seni or high school building at Forty- first and Ches apeake Street s northwest, in the Reno se c- tion, $475,000, and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such building at a cost not to exceed $1,15 0,000 ; In all, $570,000, to be immediately available and to be disbursed and accounted for as " Buildings and grounds, public schools ", and for that purpose shall constitute one fund and remain available until expended : Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for or on account of any school building not herein specified. No part of the foregoing appropriations for public schools shall be used for instructing children under five years of age except chil- dren entering during the first half of the school year who will be five years of age by November 1, 1933, and children entering during the second half of the school year who will be five years of age by March 15, 1934 : Provid ed, That this limitation shall not be con- sidered as preventing the employment of a matron and the care of children under school age at the Webster School whose parent or parents are in attendance in connection with Americanization work. None of the money appropriated by this Act shall be paid or obli- gated toward the construction of or addition to any building the whole and entire construction of which, exclusive of heating, light- ing, plumbin g, painting, and treatment of grounds, s hall not have been awarded in one or a single contra ct, separate a nd apart from anv other contract, project, or undertaking, to the lowest responsible bidder complying with all the legal requirements as to a deposit of money or the execution of a bond, or both, for the faithful per- formance of the contract : Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed as repealing existing law giving the Commissioners the right to reject all bids.