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 366 sixrmru CONGRESS. sm. 1. GH. 200. 1908. B¢l>•*¤¤8 °Y°l°¤° For the repair and restoration of buildings and removal of fallen me trees at the (ihickamauga and Chattanoolga National Park damaged and destroyed b the cyclone storm of Apr` twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and eight, to be immediately avai able, twenty-six thousand dollars. <>¤m~¢r¤¤¤¤s rw! For constructing a road about five miles or less in length from Look- °L`L¤Ei.`i°k°r’° um °f out Mountain, in Hamilton County, Tennessee, to Rossville, ln Walker . County, Georgia, on the line known as Hooker’s route (or line of · march), beginning at a point on Lookout Mountain, to be selected by the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission, and continuing on such line as theg may select, following as nearly as practicable the Hooker route to ossville, so as to connect the Lookout Mountain battlefield with Missionary and Chickamauga fields and complete the connection of the National Park in its various parts in accord- V¤¤-26»P·¤¤*- ance with the original plan and the organic Act, approved August niueteentlyeighteen hundred and ninety, twenty-five ousand dollars; which sum shall not be available until the rig t of way is first given and deeded to the United States for the full width and length of said road and until the Commission is assured that the necessary gravel to vel and to dress said road is given, when graded, to the United Clmnges. The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission may, if deemed in the public interest, make any and all necessary changes in the route or course of said road,observing as nearly as possible the Hooker route from Saint Elmo, at the foot of Lookout Mountain, to Rossville, and may construct a bridge if deemed advisable over Chattanooga Creek if the same can be done within this appropriation. . sum. Simon NATIONAL Mrnrrnizr PARK: For continuing the work of establishing a national military park on the battlefield of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary, clerical and other services, labor, land, historical tablets, maps and surveys, roads, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials, office and other necessary expenses, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Gmvsburx- _ Gnrrrsnuae Narrows}. PARK: For continuin the work of establishing the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsyivania; for the acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues roads, and bridges thereon; making fences and tes; mar ing the lilies of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bgaring a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiIed_without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battleiield and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the commissioners inGettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services; expenses and labor; the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in ition, and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, seventy- Ei; thousand dollars. Vicksburg. Vioxsnuno Nivrrosn, Mrnrrsnr PARK: For continuing the work of establishing the Vicksburg National Military Park; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary and historian; for clerical and other services, labor, iron un carriages, the mounting of siege guns, monuments, markers, am? historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys; roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of Naval memorial. lands, purchase and transportation of su plies and materials; competitive designs, to cost not to exceed ten tlhousand dollars, and selection of site (including all necessary expenses connected therewith) for a Navy memorial in the Vicksbur National Military Park, to cost not to exceed two hundred thousandg dollars, commemorative of the services of the Union Navy in the operations of the Vicksburg cam ign and siege, March twenty-ninth to July fourth, eighteen hundredm and