890 Coroner's office . R ent Commission . Pa yment of c ourt costs . Vol. 41, p. 297 . Ad vert ising . Advertising taxes in arrears. Vol .30,p. 250. Public schools . Langl ey Junior Hi gh . Furnishing, etc . Poto mac Heights . Western High . Athletic field . Provisos . De signa ted stree ts t o be closed . Thirty-ninth Street, Reservoir Road to S Street . To become pa rt of athletic field . Peabody School . Acquiring additional playground site . Langley Junior High and McKinley High . Landscape architect for treating grounds of, authorized . Ante, p. 664. SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SEss. I. CH. 853 . 1928 . Coroner's office : For the maintenance of a nonpassenger-carrying motor wagon for the morgue, jurors' fees, witness fees, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, fiscal year 1927, $89.79 . Rent Commission : For the payment of costs taxed against the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in cases instituted und er the Act of October 22, 19 19 (Fort y-first Statu tes, page 297), known as Rent Commission cases, fiscal year 19 28, $773.49 . CONTINGENT AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for tax and school notices of changes in regulations, fiscal year 1927, $18.85 . For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July 1, 1927, as required to be given by the Act of February 28, 1898, as amended, to be reim- bursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, fiscal year 1928, $4,308.10 . PUBLIC SCHOOLS Buildings and grounds : For completing the furnishing and equip- ment of the Langley Junior High School, $28,000, to continue avail- able until June 30, 1929. For additional amount for the erection of a four-room extensible building in Potomac Heights, $24,000 . For the grading, including retaining walls and fencing, of the athletic field for the Western High School, $45,000, to contin ue available until June 30, 1929 : Provided, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to close, vacate, and abandon R Street northwest between the west side of Thirty- eighth Street and the east line of parcel 28/9, and to close, vacate, and abandon S Street northwest between the west side of Thirty-ninth Street and the east line of parcel 29/1, upon the written consent of all the owners of the property abutting on said R Street and S Street between the points named, the property lying within the lines of said streets so closed, vacated, and abandoned to revert to the abut- ting property owners : Provided further, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to close, vacate, and abandon Thirty-ninth Street northwest between the north side of Reservior Road and the south side of S Street, upon the written consent of all the owners of the property abutting on said Thirty- ninth Street between the points named, the property lying within the lines of said Thirty-ninth. Street so closed, vacated, and aban- doned to revert to the District of Columbia as part of the site for an athletic field for Western High School . The s um of $11,000 of the approp riation of $37,250 for the pur- chase of school building and playground sites, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 192 8, is made available for the acquisition of land in the vicinity of the Peabody School in accordance with the final award in condemnation proceedings, without limitation as to price based on assessed value. The Com missioners of the District of Columbia a re authorized to employ a consulting landscape architect under the appropriation of $250,000 for treatment of grounds of the Langley Junior High School and the McKinley High School, contained in the District of Colum- bia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1929, at a cost not to exceed $1,500, which amount shall be included as a part of the 3 per centu m
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