The municipality of the Latvian capital voted yesterday to include in the budget the amount of $115,000 for the year 1929 for Jewish communal needs in the city.
This amount includes $84,000 for maintaining the school system, $19,000 for social service work and $12,000 in subsidies to charitable and cultural institutions.
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