lights. to 7-705. alarm systems, purchase and installing additional cables, labor, material, appurtenances, and other necessary equipment and expenses, $73,600. Street lighting: For purchase, installation, and maintenance of public lamps, lampposts, street designations, lanterns, and fixtures of Airport and airway all kinds on streets, avenues, roads, alleys, and public spaces, part cost of maintenance of airport and airway lights necessary for operation of the air mail, and for all necessary expenses in connection therewith, including rental of storerooms, extra labor, operation, maintenance, and repair of motortrucks, this sum to be expended in accordance with the provisions of sections 7 and 8 of the District of Columbia D. Code, $$ 7-701 Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1912 (36 Stat. 1008-1011, sec. 7), and with the provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1913 (37 Stat. 181-184, sec. 7), and other laws applicable thereto, $794,900: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available for the payment of rates for electric street lighting in excess of those authorized to be paid in the fiscal year 1927, and payment for electric current for new forms of street lighting shall not exceed 2 cents per kilowatt-hour for current consumed: Provided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be available for the payment on any contract required by law to be awarded through competitive bidding, which is not awarded to the lowest responsible bidder on specifications, and such specifications shall be so drawn as to admit of fair competition. Provisos. Rates, limitation. Award to lowest bidder. Post, p. 835. PUBLIC SCHOOLS For personal services of administrative and supervisory officers in accordance with the Act fixing and regulating the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the Board of Education of the D. C. Code $$ 31-601 District of Columbia, approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat. 367-375), including salaries of presidents of teachers colleges in the salary schedule for first assistant superintendents, $705,301. to 31-629, 31-109, 31 119. to 31-213, 36-201 to 36 227. Teachers, librarians, etc. to 31-629, 31-109, 31119. For personal services of clerks and other employees, $201,200. For personal services in the department of school attendance and work permits in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 D. C. Code §§ 31-201 Stat. 367-375), the Act approved February 5, 1925 (43 Stat. 806808), and the Act approved May 29, 1928 (45 Stat. 998), $42,400. For personal services of teachers and librarians in accordance D. C. Code $$ 31-601 with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat. 367–375), including for teachers colleges assistant professors in salary class eleven, and professors in salary class twelve, and including $13,000 for health and physical education teachers to supervise play in schools of the central area bounded by North Capitol Street on the east, Florida Avenue on the north, the Mall on the south, and Twelfth Street on the west, $7,405,105: Provided, That teaching vacancies that occur during the fiscal year 1942 wherever found may be filled by the assignment of teachers of special subjects and teachers not now assigned to classroom instruction, and such teachers are hereby made eligible for such assignment without further examination: Provided Instruction in auto further, That the Board of Education is hereby authorized to appoint one additional teacher, class 2-A, for instruction in automobile driving at a beginning salary of $2,000. Provisos. Filling of vacancies. mobile driving. Vacation schools. Lectures on effects of alcohol, etc. For the instruction and supervision of children in the vacation schools, and supervisors and teachers of vacation schools may also be supervisors and teachers of day schools, $31,900. For financing one hundred and ten lectures on the effect of alcohol, marihuana, and other narcotics to be delivered by physicians and/or other qualified lecturers in all the public school buildings in the District of Columbia, which have auditoriums or other seating facilities for student assemblies, including elementary schools, high schools, and teachers colleges, $550. NIGHT SCHOOLS For teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $105,780. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including equipment and purchase of all necessary articles and supplies for classes in industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, $6,000. AMERICANIZATION WORK For Americanization work and instruction of foreigners of all ages in both day and night classes, and teachers and janitors of Americanization schools may also be teachers and janitors of the day schools, $12,810. For contingent and other necessary expenses, including books, equipment, and supplies, $600. For carrying out the provisions of the Act of June 19, 1934 (34 U. S. C. 945), entitled "An Act providing educational opportunities for the children of soldiers, sailors, and marines who were killed in action or died during the World War", $200. For the development of vocational education in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the further development of vocational education in the several States and Territories", approved June 8, 1936 (49 Stat. 1488), and regulations promulgated thereunder, $26,600. COMMUNITY CENTER DEPARTMENT For all expenses necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Community Center Department, including the expense of keeping open the public-school playgrounds during the summer months, such expenses to include personal services of the director, general secretaries and community secretaries in accordance with the Act approved June 4, 1924 (43 Stat. 369); clerks and part-time employees, including janitors on account of meetings of parent-teacher associations and other activities; directors, supervisors, and other playground personnel at rates of pay to be fixed by the Board of Education, without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; special and temporary services, directors, assistants, and janitor service during the summer vacation, and in the larger yards, daily after school hours during the school term; supplies; medals, trophies; awards; lighting fixtures; and equipment, $281,320: Provided, That such public-school playgrounds shall be kept open for play purposes in accordance with the schedule heretofore maintained for playgrounds while under the jurisdiction of the playground department: Provided further, That the activities provided for under this appropriation shall be operated under the joint control, supervision, and direction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the Board of Education. CARE OF BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS For personal services, including care of portable buildings at a rate not to exceed $96 per annum for the care of each building, $988,745. MISCELLANEOUS Proviso. Manual, etc., training. For the maintenance of schools for crippled pupils, $4,000. For transportation for pupils attending schools for sight-conservation pupils, and crippled pupils, $17,400: Provided, That expenditures for streetcar and bus fares from this fund shall not be subject to the general limitations on the use of streetcar and bus fares covered by this Act. For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual and vocational training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, purchase and installation (not exceeding $100) of dualDriver-training control equipment for use in driver-training courses, and for insurance and all other necessary expenses in connection with the operation, maintenance, and repair of District owned or loaned automobiles used in driver-training courses, $70,775, to be immediately available. courses. Proviso. Military supplies, bond not required. Furnishing and equipping designated buildings. to 31-406. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $323,600. For contingent expenses, including United States flags, furniture and repairs of same, stationery, ice, paper towels, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, and including not exceeding $10,000 for books of reference and periodicals, not exceeding $1,500 for replacement of pianos at an average cost of not to exceed $300 each, and not exceeding $7,000 for labor; in all, $160,387, to be immediately available, of which not to exceed $2,100 may be expended for tabulating school census cards either by contract or by day labor as the Commissioners may determine: Provided, That a bond shall not be required on account of military supplies or equipment issued by the War Department for military instruction and practice by the students of high schools in the District of Columbia. For the replacement of furniture and equipment and for the purchase of equipment for additional classrooms in existing school buildings, $22,983. For completely furnishing and equipping buildings and additions to buildings, as follows: Syphax School addition, Woodrow Wilson High School, new elementary schools at Minnesota Avenue and Ely Place Southeast, and at Pennsylvania and Alabama Avenues Southeast, and M. M. Washington Vocational School addition; $34,190, to be immediately available. For textbooks and other educational books and supplies as authorD. C. Code $$ 31-401 ized by the Act of January 31, 1930 (46 Stat. 62), including not to exceed $7,000 for personal services, $200,000, to be immediately available. Supplies for general science, etc., depart ments. Blow School. For maintenance of kindergartens, $5,600, to be immediately available. For purchase 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, $17,925, to be immediately available. For utensils, materials, and labor, for establishment and maintenance of school gardens, and for use in teaching elementary science in connection therewith, $4,800. For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, including purchase, exchange, and maintenance of motortrucks, not to exceed $30,000 for replacement of boilers, not to exceed $10,125 for replacement of the heating plant at the Blow School, not to exceed $3,000 for replacement of insanitary drinking fountains, not Browne Junior High and Phelps VoFrancis Junior High cational School. Provisos. to exceed $7,000 for replacement of insanitary toilet facilities, not For improvement of various municipal playgrounds and recreation centers, including erection of shelter houses, $25,000, of which not exceeding $1,000 shall be immediately available for the preparation of architectural and landscaping plans. To carry out the purposes of the Act approved June 11, 1926, entitled "An Act to amend the Act entitled "An Act for the retirement of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia', approved January 15, 1920, and for other purposes" (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: Provided further, That the Board of Commissioners 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 to Repairs, etc., other municipal build Annuities. D. C. Code §§ 31-701 to 31-720. Provisos. Teachers' Retire Expenditures au thorized. 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 provided for in the Act approved March 1, 1901 (24 U. S. C. 238), and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the Com- 1008. missioners, $39,000. For maintenance and instruction of colored deaf mutes of teachable age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners, $10,000: Provided, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. For maintenance and instruction of blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners, $7,500: Provided, That all expenditures under this appropriation shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. 31 Stat. 844. Proviso. Proviso. Printing lists of sup Notwithstanding the provision that no part of any appropriation pornge in schools. contained in this Act shall be expended for printing or binding a schedule or list of supplies and materials for the furnishing of which contracts have been or may be awarded, the Board of Education is authorized to have printed and bound schedules or lists of supplies, textbooks, and equipment approved by the Board of Education for use in the schools for requisitioning purposes only: Provided, That all such expenditures for printing and binding shall have been specifically approved by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia Proviso. Solicitation of subscriptions, etc. Requisitions for equipment, approval by Commissioners. Nature study, etc., teachers. Children of Army, Navy, etc., personnel. Syphax School, construction. Junior high school, 17th and Q Streets SE. Proviso. Senior high school, 24th Street and Benning Road NE. Post, p. 683. Proviso. 41 U. 8. C. § 5. 42 Stat. 1488. 5 U. S. C. §§ 661 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 officials or for any purpose except such as may be authorized by the Board of Education at a stated meeting upon the written recommendation 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 gardening, 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 necessary 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 building 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, construction 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 specifications 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 New vocational to replace the present Abbot Vocational School, to be located as determined 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: Provided, That not to exceed $20,000 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 specifications for said building; 674. 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