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56 STAT.] 77TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 452 -JUNE 27, 1942 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 Americani- zation 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 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 regula- tions promulgated thereunder, $32,675. 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, $1,041,987. MISCELLANEOUS For the maintenance of schools for crippled pupils, $4,600. For transportation of pupils attending schools for sight-conservation pupils, and crippled pupils, $17,100: 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, and for insurance and all other necessary expenses in con- nection with the operation, maintenance, and repair of District owned or loaned automobiles used in driver-training courses, $81,240, to be immediately available. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $327,750, of which $12,000 shall be available immediately for the payment of 1942 obligations. 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 $2,000 for replace- ment of pianos at an average cost of not to exceed $300 each, and not exceeding $7,300 for labor; in all, $170,000, 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, $8,100. For completely furnishing and equipping buildings and additions to buildings, as follows: Benning School addition, new elementary school at Hillside Road and Alabama Avenue Southeast, Van Ness School addition, Kramer Junior High School, Anacostia Senior High School, and Spingarn Senior High School, $310,000, to be immediately available and to remain available until June 30, 1944. 65714--43-PT. --- 28 433 Vocational educa- tion. 20U..C.§§15h- 15p. Promiso. Manual and voca- tional training. Driver-training courses. Proviso. Military supplies, bond not required. Furnishing and equipping designated buildings.