59 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 209-JUNE 30, 1945 denies to legally adopted children the same treatment as that given to children living with their natural parents. Vocational education, George-Deen program: For all expenses necessary for the development of vocational education in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Act of June 8, 1936 (49 Stat. 1488), including personal services, and allowances for privately owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties within the Dis- trict of Columbia (not to exceed $100 per annum for each automobile), $100,300. Operation of buildings and maintenance of equipment: For all expenses necessary for the operation of school buildings and the purchase and repair of equipment, including personal services, insur- ance and operation, maintenance, and repair of District-owned or borrowed automobiles used in driver-training courses, and allowances for privately owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties within the District of Columbia (not to exceed $264 per annum for each automobile), $1,800,000, of which $150,000 shall be immediately available. Repairs and maintenance of buildings and grounds: For all expenses necessary for the repair, maintenance, and improvement of school buildings, mechanical equipment, and school grounds, including per- sonal services; printing and binding; and allowances for privately owned automobiles used for the performance of official duties (not to exceed $264 per annum for each automobile); $860,000, of which $100,000 shall be immediately available: Provided, That this appro- priation shall be available for making repairs to other municipal buildings, subject to reimbursement from other applicable appropria- tions 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 Commissiorners 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), $84,000. Teachers' retirement appropriated fund: To carry out the purposes of the Act of January 15, 1920, as amended by the Act of June 11, 1926 (44 Stat. 727), $609,000: 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 Secretary of the Treasury, and the Commissioners are authorized to expend from money to the credit of the teachers' retirement fund not exceeding $5,000 per annum for this purpose. CAPITAL OUTLAY For furnishing and equipping the following school buildings: Davis Elementary School, Kimball Elementary School addition, and new elementary school in the vicinity of Fifteenth and Hamlin Streets Northeast, $24,500, to remain available until expended. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for stabilization and drainage of the grounds at the Young Elementary School, Browne Junior High School, and Phelps Vocational School, contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1945, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation for stabilization and drainage of the grounds of the Browne Junior High School and Phelps Vocational 275 20 U.S.s. . 516h- 15p. Repairs to other municipal buildings. Report to Congress. Deaf and dumb, and blind persons. 34 U. 8. C., Supp. IV, § 945. 41 Stat. 387 . D.C . Code 131-701 to 31-720 . Post, pp. 642, 643. Reappropriation. 68 Stat. 513.
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