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 SEVENTIETH CONGRESS. SEss. I. Cii. 659. 1928 . 679 with or without drivers at local rates approved by the director ; the purchase and maintenance of draft animals, harness, and wagons ; contingent expenses ; city directories ; communication service ; car fa r e ; tr avelin g expe nses ; profess ional, sc ientific, technica l, and la w books ; periodicals and reference books ; blank books and forms ; photographs ; dictionaries and maps ; leather and rubber articles for the protection of employees and property ; the maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of not to exceed four motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and all necessary bicycles, motor cycles, and self-propelled machinery ; the purchase, maintenance, and repair of equipment and fixtures, and so forth ; and not to exceed $475 for the purchase and exchange of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying Provisos. vehicle, $486,975 : Provided, That not exceeding $35,000 of the Outdoor sports, band amou nt he rein appro pria ted m ay be exp ended for plac ing a nd ma in- concert'. taining portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports and for expenses incident to the conducting of band concerts in the parks ; not exceeding $25,000 for the improvement and maintenance as Anacostla Park, re- creation. recreation parks of Sections C and D, Anacostia Park ; not exceeding Rock Creek and Po- $93,000 for the improvement of the Rock Creek and Potomac con- tomac parkway' necting parkway and the continuation of construction of sea wall ; not exceeding $100,000 for the improvement of Meridian Hill Park ; Meridian "ill Park, and not exceeding $5,000 for the erection of minor auxiliary strut- etc ' tures : Provided, That not to exceed $5,000 may be expended by sa`v,c itectural, etc ., contract or otherwise for architectural or other professional services witho ut ref erence to th e Clas sifica tion Ac t of 1 923 or civil -servi ce rules, as approved by the director . Not exceeding $2,000 of the appropriation contained in Public Fran klin Park com - fort stat ion and w iden- Act Numbe red 6 88, S ixty -nint h Con gres s, ma king appr opria tion for ing Thirteenth Street . the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1928 Amount available . for Gene ral E xpens es, Publi c Par ks, i s he reby made avai lable for Vol.44,p.1329. the necessary alteration to the Franklin Park comfort station and storage yard, to permit the widening of Thirteenth Street northwest provided for in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1928. PARK POLICE Park police . Salaries : For pay and allowances of the United States park police Pa y, etc p. 175 force, in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924, as amended, 44, p. 534 .' $143, 300 . For uniforming and equipping the United States park police mentiforms and equip. force, including the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, bicycles, and motor cycles, uniforms and ammunition and including the purchase, not to exceed $475, and operation and maintenance of one passenger-carrying motor vehic le, $13, 900. NATIONAL CAPITAL PAR K AND PLANNING Pa rk Non Cital Hand1 Planning C OMMISS ION Commission. Incidental, etc., ex- For eac h and every purpos e requ isite for and incid ent to the w ork penses. of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission as authorized AP'3 74. p . 463 Vol. by the Act entitled "An Act providing for a comprehensive develop- ment of the p ark a nd p laygr ound syste m of the Natio nal Capit al," approved June 6, 1924, as amended, including not to exceed $100 for t echnical books and periodic als, not to excee d $40,530 for pers onal services in the District of Columbia in accordance with the Classifica- tion Act of 1923, and the Act approved April 30, 1926 (Forty-fourth Statutes at Large, page 374), and not to exceed $3,500 for printing and bind ing, $850 ,000, to be im media tely avai lable and to r emain
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