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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 62 -APR. 4, 1938 Nature study, etc., teachers. Children of Army, Navy officers, etc., admitted to schools free. Buildings and grounds. Vocational school replacing Lenox build- ing. Senior high, Fifth and Sheridan Streets NW. Junior high, Banne- ker playground site. Extensible school building on Petworth playground site. Woodrow Wilson Senior High, improve- ment of grounds. Crosby Noyes, sec- ond story addition. Alice Deal Junior High, auditorium. Aggregate; account- ing. Proviso. Use restricted. Sites designated. Junior high, vicin- ity of Minnesota Ave- nue, Eighteenth Street, etc., SE.: fund available. 50 Stat. 372. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Junior High and Library. Sum available for site; location. 50 Stat. 372 . 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 instruction in nature study and school gar- dening, and in health, physical education, and playground activities. 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 public schools without payment of tuition. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS For completing the construction of a vocational school to replace the present Lenox Vocational School, on land now owned by the Dis- trict of Columbia at Potomac Avenue between Thirteenth and Four- teenth Streets Southeast, $200,000; For continuing the construction of a new senior high school on a site already owned by the District of Columbia at Fifth and Sheri- dan Streets Northwest, $550,000; For completing the construction of a junior high school building on a portion of the site of the existing Banneker Playground, $524,650; For the construction of an eight-room extensible school building on a portion of the site of the existing Petworth Playground at Hamilton and Third Streets Northwest, $160,000; For the improvement of the grounds of the Woodrow Wilson Senior High School, including the erection of structures thereon for the utilization of such grounds for athletic purposes, $64,000; For a second story addition to the Crosby Noyes School, $60,000; For a sloping floor in the auditorium of the Alice Deal Junior High School, $10,000; In all, $1,568,650, 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. For the purchase of school building and playground sites as follows: For the purchase of land adjoining the Douglass-Simmons School for physical education purposes; For the purchase of a site for school plurposes in the vicinity of Mount Olivet and Bladensburg Roads; In all, $52,500. The appropriation contained in the District of Columbia Appro- priation Act for the fiscal year 1938 for the purchase of a site for an elementary school in the vicinity of Third Street and Concord Avenue Northwest, or such part thereof as may be necessary, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the purchase of a site for a junior high school in the vicinity of Minnesota Avenue, Eighteenth Street, and Good Hope Road Southeast; The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $200,000 con- tained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1932 for the erection of a new school building for the Jefferson Junior High School and made available in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1938 for the acquisition of a site in the area bounded by Seventh Street on the west and K Street on the south in southwest Washington for a new building for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Junior High School and Library, is hereby continued available for the latter purpose without restric- tion as to area in southwest Washington within which said building may be located. 170 [52 STAT.

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