502 FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 3553. 1906. dollars; furniture for one manual training school, two hundred dollars; furniture for two cooking schools, three hundred dollars; furniture for one sewing school, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. °°“““¥°“‘°*P°"“°“· For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, books, books of reference, and periodicals, stationery, printing, ice. purchase and repair of equipments for high school cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, including livery of horse for the superintendent, forty thousand dollars. F’°° ’°\""’°°· For free evening lectures to be given in the public school buildings or such halls as may be designated under rules and regulations of the _ ‘ board of education, one thousand five hundred dollars. P““‘°'· For purchase of pianos for school buildings and kindergarten schools, at an average cost not to exceed two hundred and twenty-five dollars each, two thousand dollars. S“"“°“ *°' Wm For text-books and School supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education of the District of Columbia, and for the necessary expenses of the purchase, distribution, and preservation of said text-books and supplies, including one custodian of text-books . and sup lies, at one thousand dollars, and one assistant, at six hun- ` dred dolllirs, fifty-four thousand dollars: Provided, That the board of education, in its discretion, is authorized to make exchanges of such books and other educational publications now on hand as may not be desirable for use. FW- _ For purchase of United States flags, one thousand dollars. ,nf},“,g’F'°“““ °‘*‘“*" For apparatus for the eqpipment and maintenance of school play- . grounds, one thousand five undred dollars. ,,,Q‘,`§}§i§"°““ ‘° “°" For extending the telephone system to the John W. Ross, Henry T. Blow, Anthony Hvde, and Francis L. Cardozo school buildings, including the cost of the necessary wire, cable, holes, cross arms, braces, conduit connections, manholes, telephone instruments, extra labor, and other necessary items, to be expended under the electrical depart- _ ment, five hundred dollars. g,f,;‘,j,}f‘“*“ ““ Burnnrxes AND GROUNDSZ For completion of eight-room buildin in tre fifth division (Anthony Hyde), twentv-five thousand two hundred dollars. For completion of eight—room building, in the thirteenth division (Francis L. Cardozo), twenty-five thousand two hundred dollars, to be immediately available. For extension of the McKinley Manual Training School, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. For purchase of lot fifteen, square four hundred and forty-four, containing two thousand five hundred and twenty square feet, adjoining McKinley Manual T ruining School on the south, five thousand dollars. For purchase of ground adjoining the John W. Ross School as a site for a future normal school, practice schools, and high school, being all of lots numbered seventy-six to one hundred and six, both inclusive, of Parker and Pulsifer subdivision of Columbia Heights, containing sixty-seven thousand nine hundred and forty-four square feet, fifty thousand nine hundred and fifty-eight dollars and fifteen cents. F or site for and toward the construction of an eight-room building in Anacostia (eighth division), to relieve the Van Buren, forty thousand dollars; an the total cost of said building, including cost of site, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars. For site and toward the construction of an eight-room school build~ ing to relieve the McCormick school, forty thousand dollars; and the total cost of said building, including cost of site, under a contract
