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 60 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 544-JULY 9, 1946 Repairs and maintenance of buildings and grounds: For all ex- penses necessary for the repair, maintenance, and improvement of school buildings, mechanical equipment, and school grounds, includ- ing personal services; printing and binding; $815,000, of which $100,000 shall be immediately available: Provided, That this appro- priation shall be available for making repairs to other municipal buildings, subject to reimbursement from other applicable appropria- tions for the cost of such work, and a report of all such expenditures shall be submitted to Congress in the annual Budget. Auxiliary educational services: For the maintenance and instruc- tion of deaf and dumb persons of the District of Columbia admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, and for the maintenance and instruction of colored deaf mutes of teachable age, and blind children, of the District of Columbia, in Maryland or some other State, by con- tract entered into by the Commissioners, for the transportation of children attending schools or classes established by the Board of Edu- cation for physically handicapped children, and for carrying out the provisions of the Act of December 16, 1944 (58 Stat. 811), $89,600. Teachers' retirement appropriated fund: To carry out the pur- poses of the Act of January 15, 1920, as amended by the Act of June 11, 1926 (44 Stat. 727), $609,000: Provided, That the Treasury Department shall prepare the estimates 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 of the Treasury, and the Com- missioners are authorized to expend from money to the credit of the teachers' retirement fund not exceeding $5,000 per annum for this purpose, including personal services, without regard to the civil- service and classification laws. CAPITAL OUTLAY For furnishing and equipping the following school buildings: Chamberlain Vocational High School, Davis Elementary School Dunbar Senior High School, Phelps Vocational High School, Randali Junior High School, Richardson Elementary School, Anacostia Sen- ior High School, Logan Elementary School, Tyler Elementary School and new elementary school in the vicinity of East Capitol Street and Benning Road Southeast, $189,500, to remain available until expended. For construction, as follows: For continuing the construction of the Miller Junior High School, including recreation facilities and treatment of grounds, in the vicin- ity of Forty-ninth Street and Washington Place Northeast, $400,000: Provided, That not to exceed $7,770 may be transferred to the credit of the appropriation account "Office of Municipal Architect, con- struction services", and be available for the preparation of plans and specifications for said building; The contract authorization of $1,190,000 for the construction of the Alexander Graham Bell (Abbot) Vocational School, contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1946, Public Law 269, Seventy- ninth Congress, first session, is hereby rescinded, and the unobligated balances of appropriations heretofore made for beginning and con- tinuing construction of this school shall be covered into the general fund of the District of Columbia; For continuing the construction of the Spingarn Senior High School, to be located in the vicinity of Twenty-fourth Street and Benning Roard Northeast, $500,000; For continuing construction of a new junior high school building (Sousa), including recreation facilities and treatment of grounds, to be located in the vicinity of Thirty-fourth Street and Minnesota 505 Repairs to other municipal buildings. Report to Congress. Deaf and dumb, and blind persons. 34 U. 8. C., Supp. V, §945. 41 Stat. 387. D.C. Code § 31-701 to 31-720. Oonstructlon of school building. Authorization re- scinded. 59 Stat. 643.

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