970 FIF'1`Y-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 992. 1903. Rm- Mrscmnmmnonsz For rent of school buildings and repair shop, fifteen thousand six hundred and eighty-four dollars. K¢r>·i¤· For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds, iift -tive thousand dollars. Fyor necessary repairs to and changes in plumbing in existing school buildings, twenty-tive thousand dollars. For re iring and renewing heating and ventilating apparatus, three thousandpgve hundred dollars. M"““"' “"“““‘· For the purchase and repair of tools, machinery, material, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and ‘ for incidental expenses connected therewith, seventeen thousand live hundred dollars. Fm- For fuel, forty-tive thousand dollars. F¤*¤¤¤¤‘¤· For furniture for new school buildings and additions to buildings, as follows: For four eight-room buildings, at one thousand seven hundred and nfty dollars each; addition to Cranch Building, eight hundred and seventy-tive dollars; and five four—room buildings, at eiglht hundred and seventy-five dollars each; in all, twelve thousand two undred and fifty dollars. °°“““=`"“‘°‘l’°“”°s· For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs thereof, 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, thirty- ve thousand dollars. P“‘“°*‘ For purchase of pianos for school buildinigs not now supplied, at an · average cost not to exceed two hundred an twenty-tive ollars each, , · _ two thousand five hundred dollars. ‘ S“”H"f°' ’“*“1"‘ 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 preser- · Pm, vation of said text-books and supplies, fifty-two thousand five hundred 1:¤-iiiiiiges. 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. mm- _ _ For purchase of United States ilags, one thousand dollars. “'° °““‘g““**°”· For tire extinguishers and iire escapes for school buildings, two T I h thousand four hundred dollars. _ · °°" °"°" For extending the telephone system to the public school buildin s within the tire imits, inc uding the cost of the necessary wire, cablg, poles, cross-arms, braces, conduit connections, manholes, telephone mstruments, extra labor, and other necessary items, five thousand dollars, to be expended under the electrical department. g,f,}’,,§,,‘?"'¥° “““ Bnmnmss AND oxouuns: Toward the construction of a Business High School building, sevent -tive thousand dollars, and the Commissioners are herebiy authorized, to enter into contract for the construction of said buil ing at ·a total cost not exceeding one hundred and seventy·Eve thousand dollars. For gurchase of lot adjoining Brent School, eight thousand three hundre dollars. For additional amount for reconstructing building at Seventh and G streets southeast, ten thousand dollars; and the appropriation of (ifteen thousand dollars made by the District of Columbia a propriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two is herehly continued available for the same purpose. For site for and toward the construction of one eight-room buildin , second division, thirty thousand dollars; and the totalcost of said building, including cost of site, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, shall not exceed sixty thousand dollars.
