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 282 SIXTY·FO`URTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Crr. 209. 1916. commissioners and other eriployees under their orders in making any inves tion or upon 0 cia business in any other places than S¤·'°’Y“m“- in the cityci§8Washington; no salary shall be paid ereunder exceeding the rate of $5,000 per annum; $244,500. _ _ cominzmturenses- For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including the purchase . of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, pamphlets, maps, stationery, fiumture and repairs to same, carpets, mattinghoil cloth,  cases, towels, ice, rooms, soap, sponges, fuel, lig ting and heating, freight and express charges, street car tickets, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters and calculating machines, mcluding their exchange, and for all other necessary miscellaneous supplies not otherwise provided, $15,000. R‘1“‘· For rental of buildi or quarters, $15,000. _ _ _ yi1i¤2i•?S;ii?i2it°' For witness fees, aiid mileage, as provided in section mne of the I Federal Trade Commission Act, $15,000. r..§..‘L2‘p‘3.?£§B?%.’° noon cnnmx AND POTOMAC PARKWAY comnssrou. mg·f;'}{w§°; °°‘“‘°°" To enable the commission created by section twenty-two of the vu. s-:,;tsss. public buildings Act a proved March fourth, nineteen undred and thirteen (Thirty-seven31 Statutm at Large, pagle eight hundred and eighty-five), to commence proceedings towar the acquisition of lands required for a connecting parkway between Potomac Park, the Heli Mm Dktfict Zoological Park, and Rock Cree Park, $50,000,1payable one-half out Mmm` of the Treasury of the United States and one-ha out of the revenues pmsm. of the District of Columbia: Promkled, That the total area of lands ·"°°““‘“°‘*· finall to be ac uired for said parkway shall not exceed the area and parcels describetil and delineated in the map numbered two, contained 1n House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and fourteen of the S•¤¤¤¤¤¤¤f¤f¢*¤¤¤· present session: Provided further, 'That the said commission is hereby authorized to settle and compromise all uestions and controversies between the United States and adverse dlaimants of titles to lands within or adjacent to the area desired for said parkway, in accordance with the recommendations of the said report submitted in compliance V·>r 38, r- 829- with the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, subject to the approval of the Attorney General of the United States, who ma , in such settlement and compromise or in any condemnation proceedrmnmsam. ings requested by said commission, exercise the power in him conn. s., sm. sei, p. in. ferred b section three hundred and sixt -four of the Revised Statutes of the ignited States, any provision of law to the contrary notwithm$·i·*¤·1 ¢¤ wk ¤>‘¤· standing: Provided further, That the said lands when acquired shall _` be a part of the fpark system of the District of Columbia, subject to ‘°' “°*"·"°· the provisions o section two of the Act of Congress approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth Statutes, chapter Eve hundred and forty-three). W"' D°¥’“"“‘°°*· WAR DEPARHHZNT. n;,'*;m°"°° °¤° °*”°· Anzuonms AND Ansrmans. B°¤*·=*¤·€¤L Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For increasing facilities for iire protection, $5,000; For increasing stor e facilities, $28,000; For repairs to whim? $6,000; For repairs to shop and other buildings, $5,000; For continuing brick wall in main issue storehouse, making it practicall a fire wall, and for rearrangement of the interior of thelbuilding, including the erection of a loading platform, $2,500;