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 63 STAT.] 81ST CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 279-JUNE 29, 1949 Capital outlay (payable from water fund): For construction of six new filters at Dalecarlia including reestablishment of shop facil- ities to be vacated; miscellaneous betterments, replacements, and engineering planning including continuing raw water conduit rehabil- itation; continuing purchase and installation of meters; reimbursable fund for advance planning for future capital outlay projects; utility relocations, plant and system rearrangements and interconnections; acquisition by gift, exchange, purchase or condemnation of supple- mentary land; improving conveying equipment for chemicals; modi- fications to provide quality control of filtered water; and for develop- ing increased water supply for the District of Columbia and environs in accordance with House Document 480, Seventy-ninth Congress, second session; and necessary expenses incident thereto; including services as authorized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S . C . 55a), but at rates for individual consultants not in excess of $150 per diem; $1,158,000, to continue available until expended. Nothing herein shall be construed as affecting the superintendence and control of the Secretary of the Army over the Washington Aqueduct, its rights, appurtenances, and fixtures connected with the same, and over appropriations and expenditures therefor as now pro- vided by law. NATIONAL GUARD For expenses necessary for the National Guard of the District of Columbia, including compensation to the commanding general at the rate of $3,600 per annum; attendance at meetings of associations per- taining to the National Guard; expenses of camps, including hire of horses for officers required to be mounted, and for the payment of commutation of subsistence for enlisted men who may be detailed to guard or move the United States property at home stations on days immediately preceding and immediately following the annual encamp- ments; damages to private property incident to encampment; reim- bursement to the United States for loss of property for which the District of Columbia may be held responsible; cleaning and repairing uniforms, arms, and equipment; instruction, purchase, and mainte- nance of athletic, gymnastic, and recreational equipment at armory or field encampments; practice marches, drills, and parades; rent of armories, drill halls, and storehouses; care and repair of armories, offices, storehouses, machinery, and dock, including dredging along- side of dock; construction of buildings for storage and other purposes at target range; $90,700. NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS For expenses necessary for the National Capital Parks, including maintenance, care, and improvement of public parks, grounds, foun- tains, and reservations, propagating gardens and greenhouses, and the tourists' camp on its present site in East Potomac Park under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service; 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 functions held in the parks, including the President's Cup Regatta, and expenses incident to the conducting of band concerts in the parks; such expenses to include pay and allowances of the United States Park Police force; per diem employees at rates of pay approved by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding current rates of pay for similar employment in the District of Columbia; uniforming and equipping the United States Park Police force; the purchase, issue, operation, maintenance, repair, 81939°-50 -PT. I -21 321 Dalecarlia filter plant. 60 Stat. 810. Superintendence and control.

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