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PUBLIC LAW 170-JULY 31, 1953

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HOWARD UNIVERSITY

Salaries and expenses: For the partial support of Howard University, including personal services and miscellaneous expenses and repairs to buildings and grounds, $2,535,000. Construction of buildings: For the purchase and installation of a vacuum pump in the steam system, $20,000. OFFICE OF EDUCATION

Promotion and further development of vocational education: For carrying out the provisions of section 3 of the Vocational Education 12 us^c U!' ^ c t of 1946 (20 U.S.C. 15), section 4 of the Act of March 10, 1924 43 Stat. 18.* (20 U.S.C. 29), section 1 of the Act of March 3, 1931 (20 U.S.C. 30), M Stat! 2?: and the Act of March 18, 1950 (Public Law 462), $18,673,261: Pro20 USC 31-33. qnded, That the apportionment to the States under the Vocational Education Act of 1946 shall be computed on the basis of not to exceed $18,498,261 for the current fiscal year: Provided further, That not more than $450,000 of this appropriation shall be available for vocational education in distributive occupations. Further endowment of colleges of agriculture and the mechanic arts: For carrying out the provisions of section 22 of the Act of 7%fc%2l^' June 29, 1935, as amended, $2,501,500. Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for the Office of Education, including surveys, studies, investigations, and reports regarding libraries; fostering coordination of public and school library service; coordination of library service on the national level with other forms of adult education; developing library participation in Federal projects; fostering Nation-wide coordination of research materials among libraries, interstate library coordination and the development of library service throughout the country; purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, motion-picture films, and lantern slides; collection, exchange, and cataloging of educational apparatus and appliances, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and repairing the same; $2,800,000, of which not less than $480,000 shall be available for the Division of Vocational Education as authorized: Provided, That all receipts from non-Federal agencies representing reimbursement for expenses of travel of employees of the Office of Education performing advisory functions to the said agencies shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of this appropriation. Payments to school districts: For payments to local educational agencies for the maintenance and operation of schools as authorized 20 free 23^°244. by the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 874), $66,500,000: Provided, That this appropriation shall also be available for carrying out Proj*^^rRi^?^2- the provisions of section 6 of such Act: Provided further, That for the tion, taxation. fiscal year beginning July 1, 1952, and for each succeeding fiscal year, all land lying within the boundaries of the Boulder Canyon Project Reservation shall be considered Federal property within the meaning of Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, second session; but this proviso shall not be construed as to interfere with State taxation of leasehold interests: Provided further, That any tax collected for school purposes on any leasehold interest within the boundaries of the Boulder City Union School District on and after July 1, 1953, shall be deducted under section 3(g) of said Act. School construction: The amount made available under this head in the Federal Security Appropriation Act, 1953, for necessary expenses 66 Stat. 364. ^f techuical services rendered by other agencies is increased from "$750,000" to "$1,250,000".

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