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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , IST SESS.-CH. 281-JULY 15, 1939 For maintenance and instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners, $11,500: Provided, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the super- vision of the Board of Education. No part of any appropriation made in this Act shall be paid to any person employed under or in connection with the public schools of the District of Columbia who shall solicit or receive, or permit to be solicited or received, on any public-school premises, any subscription or donation of money or other thing of value from any pupil enrolled in such public schools for presentation of testimonials to school offi- cials or for any purpose except such as may be authorized by the Board of Education at a stated meeting upon the written recommen- dation of the superintendent of schools. No money appropriated in this Act for the purchase of furniture and equipment and school supplies for the public schools of the District of Columbia shall be expended unless the requisitions of the Board of Education therefor shall be approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, or by the purchasing officer and the auditor for the District of Columbia acting for the Commissioners. 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 gardening, 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 GRIOUNDS For completing the construction of a new senior high school on a site already owned by the Iistrict of Columbia at Fifth and Sheridan Streets Northwest, $525.000, and the limit of cost of said building is increased to $1,425,000; For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Mlontgomery School, including an assembly hall-gymnasium, and the necessary re(nodeling of t he present building, $229,000; For completing the construction of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Junior High School and Library, $500,000, of which sum $7,200 shall lie available for supervision of construction, the employment of per- sonal services thereunder to be without reference, to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 U. S. C. 5), the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and civil-service requirements; For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Ketcham School, including assembly hall-gymnasium, and the necessary remod- eling of the present building, to replace the Van Buren School and the Van Buren Annex, $229,000; For construction of a ten-room addition to the Randall Junior High School including necessary remodeling of the present building, $140,000; In all, $1,623,000, 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. For the purchase of school building and playground sites as follows: For the purchase of additional land at the Montgomery School for the construction of an eight-room addition and assembly hall-gym- nasium to replace the Briggs School; 1017 Blind children. Maintenance and instruction. Proviso. Supervision of ex- penditures. Solicitation of sub- scriptions, etc. Requisitions for equipment, approval by Commissioners. Nature study, etc., teachers. Children of Army, Navy, etc., personnel, admission to schools free. Construction, etc. Senior ligh, Fifth rnd Sheridan Streets NW. Montgomery, addi- tion. Thomas JffTerson MItr orilt Julnior II liz Schoollilld I.ilrary. n. s. §3709. 41U.S.(. i. 5U.SC. §§6 l->74; Supp. IV, §§6:73,673c. Ketcham, addition, etc. Randall Junior High, addition. Aggregate; account- ing. Proviso. Use restricted. School building and playground sites.

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