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 PUBLIC LAWS--H. 555-JUNE 19, 1948 Vocational education, George-Barden program: For expenses neces- sary for the development of vocational education in the District of 49Stat. 1488 h- Columbia in accordance with the Act of June 8, 1936, as amended, 20 U. S. C. §§15h- 15 6. including allowances for privately owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties within the District of Columbia (not to exceed $100 per annum for each automobile), $195,900. Operation of buildings and grounds and maintenance of equipment: For expenses necessary for the operation of school buildings and grounds and the purchase and repair of equipment, purchase, operation, and maintenance of passenger-carrying motor vehicles, including insurance of District-owned or borrowed passenger motor vehicles, $2,632,000. Repairs and maintenance of buildings and grounds: For expenses necessary for the repair, maintenance, and improvement of school buildings, mechanical equipment, and school grounds, $1,059,000: municipal bidinr Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for making repairs to other municipal buildings, subject to reimbursement from Report to Coeses. other applicable appropriations for the cost of such work, and a report of all such expenditures shall be submitted to Congress in the annual Budget. Deaf and dumb, and Budget. blind persons. Auxiliary educational services: For the maintenance and instruction 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 contract entered into by the Commissioners, for the transportation of children attending schools or classes established by the Board of Education for physically handicapped children, and for carrying out the provisions of the Act of December 16, 1944 (58 Stat. 811), $96,600. Teachers' retirement appropriated fund: To carry out the Act of 41Stat. 387. D. C.aode3-701 January 15, 1920, as amended by the Act of June 11, 1926 (44 Stat. t1 875; 62t. 727), and the Act of August 7, 1946, as amended by the Act of August 750. 4, 1947 (Public Law 351), $1,707,000: Provided, That the Treasury v. C. -7 21odeSt. Department shall prepare the estimates of the annual appropriations vEstmates;actuarial 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: Armstrong Senior High School, Beers Elementary School, Birney Elementary School, Dunbar Senior High School, Francis Junior High School, Miller Junior High School, Montgomery Elementary School, Phelps Vocational High School, Sousa Junior High School, Taft Junior High School, Walker-Jones Elementary School, and Western Senior High School, $420,000, to remain available until expended. For construction, as follows: Construction of For completing construction of the Miller Junior High School including recreation facilities and treatment of grounds, to be located in the vicinity of Forty-ninth Street and Washington Place North- east, $817,573; For continuing construction of a new twenty-four-room elementary- school building including auditorium, lunchroom, physical educa- tion and recreation facilities, and treatment of grounds, in the vicinity 540 [62 STAT.

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