Chapter 72.
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CHAP. 72.— AN ACT for the relief of the Public Schools of the District of Columbia.April 30, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Public schools of District of Columbia, $75,000 to be retained for maintenance of, etc. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, directed to retain, and use, for the maintenance of the Public Schools, of said District for the remainder of the current school year the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, out of any moneys due to the United States from said District of Columbia, under the provisions of the seventeenth section of the act approved March third, eighteen*Proviso.* hundred and seventy-seven: *Provided*, That the sum herein named, shall not be considered as in addition to the proportion of the expenses of the District of Columbia, hereafter to be assumed by the United States, but shall be a part thereof.
Approved, April 30, 1878.