PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 281-JULY 15, 1939 Junior High School; Noyes School, second floor; Rudolph School; New building re Woodrow Wilson Stadium; $87,000: Provided, That the new school placing Lenox Voca- building built to replace the Lenox Vocational School shall, when tional School; desig- nation. c es ig occupied, be known as the John A. Chamberlain Vocational School. Supplies toppi. For textbooks and other educational books and supplies as author- ized by the Act of January 31, 1930 (46 Stat. 62), including not to exceed $7,000 for personal services, $190,000, to be immediately available. Kindergartens. For maintenance of kindergartens, $5,600, to be immediately avail- able. scice, etc., depart- For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, ments. and for extending the equipment and for the maintenance of labora- tories 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, $17,875, to be immediately available. uSchool tgardens, For utensils, materials, and labor, for establishment and mainte- nance of school gardens, and for use in teaching elementary science in connection therewith, $2,400. Repairs, etc., to For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, including maintenance of motor trucks, and not to exceed $975 for the replacement of one one and one-half ton truck, not to exceed $40,000 igentSchol, heat- for replacement of boilers, not to exceed $12,000 for replacement of the heating plant at the Gage School, not to exceed $3,000 for replace- ment of insanitary drinking fountains, not to exceed $7,000 for replacement of insanitary toilet facilities, $490,525, of which amount Cntrs etc. $100,000 shall be immediately available: Provided, That work per- formed for repairs and improvements under appropriations contained in this Act shall be by contract or otherwise, as may be determined by the Commissioners to be most advantageous to the District of Availabiity forbre- Columbia: Provided further, That this appropriation shall be avail- ings; reimbursement, able for performing work of repairs and improvements to other etc. municipal buildings, subject to reimbursement covering the cost of such work, and a report of expenditures for such repairs and improve- ments to other municipal buildings shall be submitted to Congress in the annual Budget. Improvement of For improvement of various municipal playgrounds and recreation municipal play- . m an. grounds. 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. 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- ment of public-school teachers in the District of Columbia', approved 41 8tat. 387; 44 Stat. January 15, 1920, and for other purposes" (41 Stat. 387-390), $550,000. TIHE DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND Min tenancei and For maintenance and instruction of deaf and dumb persons admit- ted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of R. S. 4864. Columbia, under section 4864 of the Revised Statutes, and as pro- 31 Stat 844 7D.C . Code 0218. vided 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 Commissioners, $35,500. c°alnred deaf-mutes For maintenance and instruction of colored deaf-mutes of teachable ine and instruction. age belonging to the District of Columbia, in Maryland, or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the Commissioners, Supervision of ex- $9,500: Provided, That all expenditures under this appropriation penditures. shall be made under the supervision of the Board of Education. [53 STAT.
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