Excerpt from Report of the Schoolhouse Commission: Upon a General Plan for the Consolidation of Public Schools in the District of Columbia Sir: The Commission created by act of Congress, approved .June 20, 1906, consisting of the superintendent of schools of the District of Columbia, the Supervising Architect of the United States Treasury, and the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, to report- to Congress a general plan for the consolidation of public schools in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes, has the honor to submit herewith its report. The School house Commission was created by public act No. 254, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, entitled "An Act to fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the boa id of education of the District of Columbia," approved June 20, 1900, by the following section: Sec. 11. That a Commission, consisting of the superintendent of schools, the Engineer Commissioner, and the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department is hereby created, for the purpose of submitting to Congress at its session b-.'ginning December, nineteen hundred and six - First. A general plan for the consolidation of the public schools In the District of Columbia and the abandonment and sale of such school buildings and sites as may by them he deemed necessary and desirable for the best good of the public school service. Second. A general plan for the character, size, and location of school build-lugs in accordance with which the educational and business interests of the public school system may be subserved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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