PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 279-JUNE 29,1949 49 Stat. 1488. 20 U. S. C. §§15h- 15q. Repairs to other municipal buildings. Report to Congress. Deafand dumb, and blind persons. D. C. Code io 31- 701 to 31-720; Supp. VII, II 31-721 to 31- 739. Estimates; actuarial valuations. Availability of funds. 61 Stat. 428 . Post, pp. 308, 872. Construction of school buildings. of Columbia in accordance with the Act of June 8, 1936, as amended, $207,600. Operation of buildings and grounds and maintenance of equipment: For expenses necessary for the operation of school buildings and grounds; the purchase and repair of equipment; and operation, main- tenance, and insurance of passenger-carrying motor vehicles, including District-owned or borrowed passenger motor vehicles; $2,868,000. Repairs and maintenance of buildings and grounds: For expenses necessary for the repair, maintenance, and improvement of school buildings, mechanical equipment, and school grounds, $1,154,260: Provided, That this appropriation shall be available for making repairs to other municipal buildings, subject to reimbursement from 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. 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 January 15, 1920 (41 Stat. 387), as amended by the Act of June 11, 1926 (44 Stat. 727), and the Act of August 7, 1946 (60 Stat. 875), as amended by the Act of August 4, 1947 (61 Stat. 750), $1,707,000: 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 Secre- tary of the Treasury, and the Commissioners are authorized to expend from money to the credit of the "Teachers' Retirement and Annuity Fund, District of Columbia" 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: Americanization School, Armstrong Senior High School, Banneker Junior High School, Bell Elementary School, Eastern Senior High School, Garnet-Patterson Junior High School, Kramer Junior High School, Macfarland Junior High School, Miller Junior High School, Elementary School in vicinity of Oxon Run Southeast, Park View Elementary School, Patterson Elementary School, Randall Junior High School, Sousa Junior High School, Stanton Elementary School Replacement, Taft Junior High School, Walker-Jones Elementary School, and Wilson Senior High School, $420,000, to remain available until expended. Not to exceed $157,400 of the $600,000 for furnishing and equipping school buildings contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1948, shall cease to be available for furnishing and equipping Central Senior High School but is hereby made available for the purchase of vocational high school equipment for the Bell Vocational High School building, and shall remain available until expended. For construction, as follows: For completing construction of a new twenty-four-room elementary- school building, including auditorium, lunchroom, physical education and recreation facilities, and treatment of grounds, in the vicinity of 306 [63 STAT.
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