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 53 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , IST SESS.-C1C. 119-MAY 10, 1939 Ackia National Memorial Commission and Battleground National Monument: The unexpended balance of the appropriation to carry out the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Ackia, Mississippi, and the establishment of the Ackia Battleground National Monument, and for other purposes", approved August 27, 1935, contained in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936, and continued available during the fiscal year 1938, is hereby continued available for the same purposes during the fiscal year 1940. Boulder Dam National Recreational Area, Arizona and Nevada: For administration, protection, improvement, and maintenance of the recreational activities of the Boulder Dam National Recreational Area and any lands that may be added thereto by Presidential or other authority, including not exceeding $800 for the purchase, mainte- nance, operation, and repair of motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles, and not to exceed $10,000 for the lighting of the airplane landing field at Boulder City, Nevada, $99,730. Emergency reconstruction and fighting forest fires in national parks: For reconstruction, replacement, and repair of roads, trails, bridges, buildings, and other physical improvements and of equip- ment in national parks or national monuments that are damaged or destroyed by flood, fire, storm, or other unavoidable causes during the fiscal year 1940, and for fighting or emergency prevention of forest fires in national parks or other areas administered by the National Park Service, or fires that endanger such areas, $40,000, and in addi- tion thereto the unexpended balance for this purpose for the fiscal year 1939 is continued available during the fiscal year 1940, together with not to exceed $100,000 to be transferred upon the approval of the Secretary of the Interior from the various appropriations for national parks and national monuments herein contained, any such diversions of appropriations to be reported to Congress in the annual Budget: Provided, That the allotment of these funds to the various national parks or areas administered by the National Park Service as may be required for fire-fighting purposes shall be made by the Secretary of the Interior, and then only after the obligation for the expenditure has been incurred. Forest protection and fire prevention: For the control and the pre- vention of spread of forest insects and tree diseases and for fire- prevention measures, including equipment, and personal services in the District of Columbia (not to exceed $20,500) and elsewhere, $120,000, to be immediately available. The total of the foregoing amounts shall be available in one fund for the National Park Service: Provided, That 10 per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably and shall be reported to Congress in the annual Budget. Appropriations herein made for the national parks, national monu- ments, and other reservations under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, shall be available for the giving of educational lectures therein: for the services of field employees in cooperation with such nonprofit scientific and historical societies engaged in educational work in the various parks and monuments as the Secretary, in his discretion, may designate; and for travel expenses of employees attending Government camps for training in forest-fire prevention and suppression. Appropriations herein and hereafter made for the National Park Service shall be available for the printing of information and direc- tional signs made of cloth and required in the administration of areas under its jurisdiction. Ackia National Me- morial Commission and Battleground Na- tional Monument. 49 Stat. 897, 1119; 50 Stat. 765; 52 Stat. 1134. Boulder Dam Na- tional Recreational Area, Ariz. and Nev. Emergency recon- struction and fighting forest fires. Unexpended balance continued available. 52 Stat. 333. Proviso. Restriction on allot- ment. F. ,r est protection and fire prevention. Accounting. Proriso. Sums interchange- able. Educationallectures, etc. Information and directional signs.

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