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 [55 STAT. PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 271-JULY 1, 1941 Solicitation of sub- scriptions, etc. Requisitions for equipment, approval by Commissioners. Nature study, etc., teachers. Children of Army, Navy, etc., personnel. Syphax School, con- struction. Junior high school, 17th and Q Streets SE. Proviro. Senior high school, 21th Street and Ben- nine Road NE. Post, p. 683. Proviso. 41 U.S.C .§ . 42 Stat. 1488. 5U. . C. §§ 861- 674. Post, p. 613. New vocational school. ProVo. or by the Purchasing Officer and the Auditor for the District of Columbia, acting for such Commissioners. 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 garden- ing, 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 an eight-room addition to the Syphax School, including an assembly hall-gymnasium and the neces- sary remodeling of the present building, $152,500, and the limit of cost of such building is increased to $247,500; For continuing the construction of a junior high school building on land owned by the District of Columbia in the vicinity of Seventeenth and Q Streets Southeast, $375,000, and the limit of cost of such build- ing is increased to $1,090,125: Provided,That not to exceed $1,831 of the amount herein appropriated may be transferred to the credit of the appropriation account, "Municipal Architect's Office, con- struction services", and be available for the preparation of plans and specifications for said building; For beginning the construction of a new extensible senior high school building to be located at Twenty-fourth Street and Benning Road, Northeast, $700,000, and the limit of cost of such building is increased to $1,158,750: Provided, That not to exceed $1,630 of the amount herein appropriated may be transferred to the credit of the appropriation account, "Municipal Architect's Office, construction services", and be available for the preparation of plans and specifica- tions for said building, including the employment of personal services without reference to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes or the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, and civil service requirements; For beginning construction of a new extensible vocational school to replace the present Abbot Vocational School, to be located as deter- mined by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission in Brentwood Park, $200,000, and the Commissioners are authorized to enter into contract or contracts for such building at a cost not to exceed $562,500: Pro- vided, That not to exceed $20,000 of the amount herein appropriated may be transferred to the credit of the appropriation account "Munic- ipal Architect's Office, construction services" and be available for the preparation of plans and specifications for said building; 512

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