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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 18T SESS. -CH. 271-JULY 1, 1941 NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS SALARIES, PUBLIC PARKS, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA For personal services, $360,350. GENERAL EXPENSES, PUBLIC PARKS General expenses: For general expenses in connection with the maintenance, care, improvement, furnishing of heat, light, and power of public parks, grounds, fountains and reservations, propagating gardens and greenhouses under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, including the tourists' camp on its present site in East Potomac Park, and including personal services of seasonal or inter- mittent employees at per-diem rates of pay approved by the Secre- tary of the Interior, not exceeding current rates of pay for similar employment in the District of Columbia; placing and maintaining portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports, erection of stands, furnishing and placing of chairs, and services incident thereto in connection with national, patriotic, civic and recreational func- tions held in the parks, including the President's Cup Regatta, and for expenses incident to the conducting of band concerts in the parks; the hire of draft animals with or without drivers at local rates approved by said Secretary; the purchase and maintenance of draft animals, harness, and wagons; contingent expenses; city directories; communication service; carfare; traveling expenses; professional, scientific, technical, and law 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 two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles and all necessary bicycles, motorcycles, and self-propelled machinery; the purchase, mainte- nance, and repair of equipment and fixtures, and so forth, $375,962: Provided, That not to exceed $10,000 of the amount herein appropri- ated may be expended for the erection of minor auxiliary structures. PARK POLICE Salaries: For pay and allowances of the United States Park Police force, in accordance with the Act approved May 27, 1924, as amended, $175,290. For uniforming and equipping the United States Park Police force, including the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, exchange, and storage of revolvers, bicycles, and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, uniforms, ammunition, and radio equip- ment and the rental of teletype service, $13,400. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION For reimbursement to the United States in compliance with sec- tion 4 of the Act approved May 29, 1930 (46 Stat. 482), as amended, $300,000. For each and every purpose, except the acquisition of land, requisite for and incident to the work of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission as authorized by the Act entitled "An Act providing for a comprehensive development of the park and play- ground system of the National Capital", approved June 6, 1924 (40 U. S . C. 71), as amended, including personal services in the District of Columbia, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, not to exceed $1,000 for printing and binding, not to exceed $500 for traveling expenses and carfare of employees of the Commission, and not to exceed $300 for professional, scientific, technical, and reference books, and periodicals, $41,230. 527 Pt, p. 83. Pfroiso. 43 Stnt. 175. D.C. Code § 4-23. 46 Stat. 485. D. C. Code §8-106 note. Incidental expenses. 43 Stat. 463. D. C. Code § 8-101.

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