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 63 STAT.] 81ST CONG., 1ST SESS. - CHS. 457, 464, 465-AUG. 17, 1949 trict of Columbia and its environs, to be known as the Suitland Park- way, and it shall be developed, administered, and maintained by the Secretary of the Interior, through the National Park Service, subject to the provisions of the Act of Congress approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), the provisions of which Act, as amended and supple- mented, are hereby extended over and made applicable to said park- way, insofar as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. SEC. 2. The parkway shall be developed, operated, and administered as a limited access road primarily to provide a dignified, protected, safe, and suitable approach for passenger-vehicle traffic to the National Capital and for an uninterrupted means of access between the several Federal establishments adjacent thereto and the seat of government in the District of Columbia. To avoid impairment of this purpose, the Secretary of the Interior, with the concurrence of the Federal Works Agency, shall control the location limit the number of access points, and regulate the use of said parkway by various classes or types of vehicles or traffic. SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Interior in his administration of the Suitland Parkway is authorized, in his discretion, to accept from private owners, State and local governments, lands, rights-of-way over lands, or other interests in lands adjacent to such parkway, and also to accept the transfer of jurisdiction to the Department of the Interior of adjacent lands for park and recreational purposes from any Federal agency or department, without reimbursement to such Federal agency or department having jurisdiction thereof, when such transfer is mutually agreed upon by the Secretary and such depart- ment or agency; and such transfer of jurisdiction by any such depart- ment or agency of the Federal Government in possession of such lands is hereby authorized. SEC. 4. That money appropriated for parkways administered by the National Park Service by the Department of the Interior Appropria- tion Act each fiscal year shall be available for expenditure for continu- ing the construction, development, maintenance, and policing of the Suitland Parkway. Approved August 17, 1949. [CHAPTER 464] AN ACT To authorize the taxation of Indian land holdings in the town of Lodge Grass, Montana, to assist in financing a municipal water supply and sewerage system. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all Indian land (whether restricted land or land purchased with restricted funds of Indians) within the corporate limits of the town of Lodge Grass, Montana, in the Crow Indian Reservation, hereafter acquired for individual Indians or tribes of Indians, shall be subject to taxation to assist in financing the construction and maintenance of a municipal water supply and sewerage system for such town. Approved August 17, 1949. [CHAPTER 465] JOINT RESOLUTION To amend the joint resolution creating the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission, approved June 16, 1938. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the last sentence of the first section of the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution 613 16 U. . 0. §§1-4, 22,43;5U.S.0.§485. Administration, etc. Acceptance of lands, etc. Transfer of jurisdic- tion. Availability of funds. August 17, 1949 11. I. =1941 [Public Law 243] Lodge Grass, Mont. August 17, 1949 [H. J. Res. 208] [Public Law 2441 Niagara Falls Bridge Commission. Reconstruction, etc., of bridges.

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