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 156 STAT. Reappropriation. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $34,190 for com- pletely furnishing and equipping buildings and additions to buildings, 55 Stat. 510. contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1942, is continued available for the same purpose in the fiscal year 1943. For textbooks and other educational books and supplies as author- D.C.c ode §3140 ized by the Act of January 31, 1930 (46 Stat. 62), including not to to 31-. exceed $7,000 for personal services, $210,000, to be immediately available. For maintenance of kindergartens, $6,000, to be immediately available. upplies for science Forpurchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, and for extending the equipment and for the maintenance of laboratories of the department of physics, chemistry, biology, and general science in the several high and junior high schools, vocational schools, and teachers colleges, and for the installation of the same, $20,175, to be immediately available. For utensils, materials, and labor, for establishment and mainte- nance of school gardens, and not to exceed $700 for use in teaching elementary science in connection therewith, $5,000. For the purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment for school yards for the purposes of play of pupils, $7,000. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, including purchase, exchange, and maintenance of motortrucks, replacement of boilers, for replacement of the heating plant at the Webb School, replacement of insanitary drinking fountains, replace- ment of insanitary toilet, facilities, new roofs for the Macfarland Junior High School, the Mott School, and the Shaw Junior High School, and for the elimination of emergency fire hazards, and including $2,000 for painting and decorating inside Brookland Ele- mentary School, Tenth and Monroe Streets, Northeast, $597,150, of Protos. which amount $100,000 shall be immediately available: Provided, Contracts. That work performed for repairs and improvements under appropria- tions contained in this Act shall be by contract or otherwise, as may be determined by the Commissioners to be most advantageous to the Repairs, tci. l ,to District of Columbia: Provided further, That this appropriation shall othermunicpalbuild- .p 1 A 1. o shl . ings. be available for performing work of repairs and improvements to other municipal buildings subject to reimbursement covering the cost of such work, and a report of expenditures for such repairs and improvements to other municipal buildings shall be submitted to Congress in the annual Budget. Annuities. To carry out the purposes of the Act approved June 11, 1926, entitled "An Act to amend the Act entitled 'An Act for the retire- nlent of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia', approved toi'de3 "31-701 January 15, 1920, and for other purposes" (44 Stat. 727), $609,000: proviso. Provided, That the Treasury Department shall prepare the estimates ment a fund. r rc of the annual appropriations required to be made to the teachers' retirement fund, and shall make actuarial valuations of such fund at intervals of five years, or oftener if deemed necessary by the Secretary thExpenditure au- f the Treasury: Provided further, That the Board of Commis- sioners of the District of Columbia is authorized to expend from money to the credit of the teachers' retirement fund an amount not exceeding $5,000 per annum for the expenses necessary in carrying out the provisions of said Act, including actuarial advice. THE DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND For maintenance and instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as pro- PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 452-JUNE 27, 1942 434

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